With Michael Nyqvist Sweden loses one of its many internationally recognised actor. The Nordic country has a high Output of major movie stars.
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Acting talent from Sweden
International Star: Michael Nyqvist
He starred in around 50 films, be calm and yet intense game only convinced the Swedish film world. Particularly, the adaptation of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson made in the world, and earned him 2011 the role of atomic opponent of Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”. Since then, he has starred in a number U.S. productions.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Cult leader: turning with Watson and Brühl
In 2015, the German Director Florian Gallenberger for the international Thriller “Colonia Dignidad hired him – There is no going Back”. Here, Nyqvist plays on the side of Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl, a German cult leader in the homonymous settlement, founded in the 1960s in the South of Chile. Also many other Swedish actors have made an international career.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Hollywood Icon: Greta Garbo
It is the “Garbo” and one of the most important Actresses in film history. As one of the few they managed to make the leap from Silent to sound film. Her career began in Sweden due to the Swedish Director Mauritz Stiller. He advised her to change the name, actually her name was Greta Lovisa Gustafsson. He took her to Hollywood. The Rest is history.
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Acting talent from Sweden
The exorcist Max von Sydow
Actually, he’s German-Pomeranian descent and now a French citizen. The majority of his career, but he was in Sweden, where he grew up. With cult film Director Ingmar Bergman, he made “shame” and “Passion”. Hollywood hired him as the priest in “The exorcist” and countless other films such as “Robin Hood” or “star Wars”. And he is going to continue to – 88 years.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Century Actress: Ingrid Bergman
It was the “Small”, looked him in the eyes. Ingrid Bergman is part of the collective film memory, the American Film Institute chose the fourth place of the greatest Film Actresses of the 20th century. Century. The Swede was not only in “Casablanca” Curtiz, but also in “Stromboli” by Rosselini, “Anastasia” by Litvak, or “autumn Sonata” by Ingmar Bergman.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Series Heroine: Sofia Helin
The German audience is as Saga Norén known. In the series “die Brücke – Transit in den Tod” from 2011 she plays an autistic detective Commissioner. In 2017, she is seen in the German television three – divisor “The same sky” – as a British data analyst during the Cold war, is seduced by a Romeo agent, played by Tom Schilling.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Miss Sweden Anita Ekberg
Something you had not seen yet: A dreamy Diva bathes in the Trevi fountain in Rome, Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” in 1960 to the mind. Anita Ekberg in the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish sex symbol par excellence, appeared in such films as “war and peace”, “Boccaccio 70”, or “Four for Texas” on the side of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Oscar Winner: Alicia Vikander
She is currently THE Star of Sweden. 2016 Alicia vikander received an Oscar as best supporting actress in “The Danish Girl”. Had noticed you a long time ago: Whether as a Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2011, or on the side of Jude Law in 2012’s “Anna Karenina”. From next year, she plays in the continuation of the “Tomb Raider” – is the successor to Angelina Jolie.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Child Star: Inger Nilsson
Cheeky and self-aware – Inger Nilsson was just ten, when she played “Pippi Longstocking” and this is the first Swedish child star. A blessing and a curse: The role, it adheres to a life long, after high school you can’t repeat the success again. Today, Nilsson plays a coroner in the English-Swedish series “The Commissioner and the sea”.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Sociopath: Noomi Rapace
The international breakthrough succeeded as “Lisbeth Salander”. For this, you could not only pierce, but also learned to kick Boxing and motorcycle. Stieg Larsson, author of the bestseller trilogy “delusion – condemnation – forgiveness”, once said in an Interview, “Lisbeth” would be the adult Version of “Pippi Longstocking”. Last Rapace in Ridley Scott’s “Alien played”.
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Acting talent from Sweden
International Star: Michael Nyqvist
He starred in around 50 films, be calm and yet intense game only convinced the Swedish film world. Particularly, the adaptation of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson made in the world, and earned him 2011 the role of atomic opponent of Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”. Since then, he has starred in a number U.S. productions.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Cult leader: turning with Watson and Brühl
In 2015, the German Director Florian Gallenberger for the international Thriller “Colonia Dignidad hired him – There is no going Back”. Here, Nyqvist plays on the side of Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl, a German cult leader in the homonymous settlement, founded in the 1960s in the South of Chile. Also many other Swedish actors have made an international career.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Hollywood Icon: Greta Garbo
It is the “Garbo” and one of the most important Actresses in film history. As one of the few they managed to make the leap from Silent to sound film. Her career began in Sweden due to the Swedish Director Mauritz Stiller. He advised her to change the name, actually her name was Greta Lovisa Gustafsson. He took her to Hollywood. The Rest is history.
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Acting talent from Sweden
The exorcist Max von Sydow
Actually, he’s German-Pomeranian descent and now a French citizen. The majority of his career, but he was in Sweden, where he grew up. With cult film Director Ingmar Bergman, he made “shame” and “Passion”. Hollywood hired him as the priest in “The exorcist” and countless other films such as “Robin Hood” or “star Wars”. And he is going to continue to – 88 years.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Century Actress: Ingrid Bergman
It was the “Small”, looked him in the eyes. Ingrid Bergman is part of the collective film memory, the American Film Institute chose the fourth place of the greatest Film Actresses of the 20th century. Century. The Swede was not only in “Casablanca” Curtiz, but also in “Stromboli” by Rosselini, “Anastasia” by Litvak, or “autumn Sonata” by Ingmar Bergman.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Series Heroine: Sofia Helin
The German audience is as Saga Norén known. In the series “die Brücke – Transit in den Tod” from 2011 she plays an autistic detective Commissioner. In 2017, she is seen in the German television three – divisor “The same sky” – as a British data analyst during the Cold war, is seduced by a Romeo agent, played by Tom Schilling.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Miss Sweden Anita Ekberg
Something you had not seen yet: A dreamy Diva bathes in the Trevi fountain in Rome, Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” in 1960 to the mind. Anita Ekberg in the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish sex symbol par excellence, appeared in such films as “war and peace”, “Boccaccio 70”, or “Four for Texas” on the side of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Oscar Winner: Alicia Vikander
She is currently THE Star of Sweden. 2016 Alicia vikander received an Oscar as best supporting actress in “The Danish Girl”. Had noticed you a long time ago: Whether as a Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2011, or on the side of Jude Law in 2012’s “Anna Karenina”. From next year, she plays in the continuation of the “Tomb Raider” – is the successor to Angelina Jolie.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Child Star: Inger Nilsson
Cheeky and self-aware – Inger Nilsson was just ten, when she played “Pippi Longstocking” and this is the first Swedish child star. A blessing and a curse: The role, it adheres to a life long, after high school you can’t repeat the success again. Today, Nilsson plays a coroner in the English-Swedish series “The Commissioner and the sea”.
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Acting talent from Sweden
Sociopath: Noomi Rapace
The international breakthrough succeeded as “Lisbeth Salander”. For this, you could not only pierce, but also learned to kick Boxing and motorcycle. Stieg Larsson, author of the bestseller trilogy “delusion – condemnation – forgiveness”, once said in an Interview, “Lisbeth” would be the adult Version of “Pippi Longstocking”. Last Rapace in Ridley Scott’s “Alien played”.
It was too early, sudden farewell. At the age of 56 years, Michael Nyqvist, died last night of cancer. Tirelessly he had turned by then, some movies are still in post-production. “It breaks my heart,” tweeted the British actor Gerard Butler. In a video message he called Nyqvist, Blomkvist primarily for his role as Mikael in the “Millenium”trilogy of Larsson’s world Rose became famous, a man with a “childlike qualities of playfulness, but also humility and warmth and a cheeky Glint in his eyes.”
Breakthrough of the Millennium trilogy
Michael Nyqvist knew early on what he wanted and what he could. At 19, he was accepted to the Swedish Academic School of Drama, he then worked for many years at the theatre. The breakthrough on the big screen, he managed to in 2000 with the Comedy”!”, and later on in the film adaptations of Mankell’s crime novels. It is the crucial role of his career as a Journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the Larsson trilogy, “the delusion-condemnation – forgiveness”. Later film came offers from Germany as “Colonia Dignidad” on the side of Daniel Brühl. In the fourth part of the “Mission Impossible”, he played with.
With this impressive screen career from a country with just six million inhabitants, stand Michael Nyqvist are not alone. The Nordic country has a high Output of major movie stars, from icons such as Greta Garbo in the silent film era, up to and including Angelina jolie’s “Tomb Raider”-the successor to Alicia vikander
nw/pg (dpa)