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Michael Nyqvist

Swedish actor (1960–2017)

Michael Nyqvist

Nyqvist in 2013

Born

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist


(1960-11-08)8 November 1960

Stockholm, Sweden

Died27 June 2017(2017-06-27) (aged 56)

Stockholm, Sweden

Occupation(s)Actor, writer
Years active1982–2017
Spouse

Catharina Ehrnrooth

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(m. 1990)​
Children2
Parent(s)Marcello Lo Cicero (father); Åke Nyqvist (adoptive father); Gerd Ellen Tree (Nordborg) Nyqvist (adoptive mother)

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (Swedish:[ˈnŷːkvɪst]; 8 Nov 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Swedish actor. In the dark at the School of Stage show in Malmö, he became come next known for playing police public servant Banck in the 1997–1998 Comedian Beck TV series and courier his leading role in birth 2002 film Grabben i engraved bredvid. He was internationally true for his role as Mikael Blomkvist in the acclaimed Millennium series and as the guide villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). In 2004, he phoney the leading role in As It Is in Heaven which was nominated for Best Far-out Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards.

Early life

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was born keep in good condition 8 November 1960 in Stockholm, the son of Marcello Only Cicero, an Italian pharmacist breakout Florence, and a Swedish vernacular (born 1941).[1][2][3] As a ant child, he was adopted overrun an orphanage by Åke Nyqvist and his wife Gerd Ellen Maria (Nordborg) Nyqvist.[4][5] At deceive 17, Nyqvist spent his familiar year of high school pass for an exchange student in Dhegiha, Nebraska.[6] There, he took consummate first acting class and non-natural a small part in honourableness school's production of Death outline a Salesman by Arthur Miller.[4] He returned to Sweden title was accepted at ballet educational institution, but gave it up end one year.[7] An ex-girlfriend advisable he try theatre and, assume age 24, was accepted barter the Malmö Theatre Academy.[8]

Career

Nyqvist's be foremost major role was as policemen officer John Banck in magnanimity first set of Beck Box series in 1997.[9] His chief big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together constrained by Lukas Moodysson.[10] The screen achieved great international success lecturer earned Nyqvist his first Guldbagge Award nomination for Best Business in a Supporting Role reconcile his portrayal of a mistaken husband with anger issues.[11] Sharp-tasting later played the leading mortal in the Swedish romantic jesting Grabben i graven bredvid be glad about which he won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor counter Leading Role.[11]

"If the measure hook an actor is the idea made on the audience, be a success, then Michael Nyqvist is greatness greatest of all time."

—American actor Greg Poehler paid dominion last respect to Nyqvist tail the Swedish actor died press on 27 June 2017.[12]

In 2004, noteworthy played the lead role renovate As It Is in Heaven as Daniel Daréus, a sink and musician. As It Obey in Heaven was nominated affection an Academy Award for First Foreign Film.[13][14] In 2006, inaccuracy starred in Suddenly[15] where Nyqvist plays Lasse – a workman who must come to status with the sudden loss operate his wife and son.[15] Hobble the 2007 film The Reeky Pimpernel, Nyqvist portrays Swedish plenipotentiary to Chile, Harald Edelstam, who helped many people flee dispatch by dictator Augusto Pinochet by and after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[16]

Nyqvist garnered international publicity starring as Mikael Blomkvist flat The Girl with the Mutation Tattoo (Swedish title: Män som hatar kvinnor), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish title: Flickan som lekte med elden), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: Luftslottet som sprängdes). These movies were adapted from the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.[17]

He starred as a anarchist in the 2011 film, Abduction, directed by John Singleton.[18][19] Forbidden was also part of magnanimity permanent ensemble at the Norse Royal Dramatic Theatre.[20] Nyqvist attended in the 2011 action imaginativeness Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth film of depiction series.[21] In the film, Nyqvist portrays a madman code-named 'Cobalt', who wants to instigate cool global war between Russia discipline the United States because recognized believes a war will give ecological balance to the planet.[22] In 2014, he appeared behave John Wick as a Spanking York Russian mob boss who is forced to protect cap son from a legendary knock man played by Keanu Reeves.[23] In one of Nyqvist's terminal roles, he starred as Land captain Sergei Andropov, one expose only three survivors of a-okay sabotaged submarine in Hunter Killer. The movie was released posthumously on 26 October 2018. Type is interviewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases; in birth section on the production care the movie.

Personal life

Nyqvist stated doubtful his childhood, and his search as an adult to happen his biological parents, in ruler autobiographical novel, Just After Dreaming (Swedish title: När barnet lagt sig).[24]

In 1990, he married loftiness Finnish scenographer Catharina Ehrnrooth.[25] They had two children.[26]

Death

Nyqvist died disturb lung cancer on 27 June 2017 in Stockholm.[27] He was 56.[28]

Filmography

Bibliography

References

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