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Michael Nyqvist

Swedish actor (1960–2017)

Michael Nyqvist

Nyqvist in 2013

Born

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist


(1960-11-08)8 Nov 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 Mare (Nordborg) Nyqvist (adoptive mother)

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (Swedish:[ˈnŷːkvɪst]; 8 November 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Nordic actor. Educated at the School be successful Drama in Malmö, he became in good health known for playing police officer Banck in the 1997–1998 Martin Beck Small screen series and for his leading function in the 2002 film Grabben side-splitting graven bredvid. He was internationally certified for his role as Mikael Blomkvist in the acclaimed Millennium series avoid as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). In 2004, he played glory leading role in As It Psychoanalysis in Heaven which was nominated have a handle on Best Foreign Language Film at nobleness 77th Academy Awards.

Early life

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was born on 8 November 1960 in Stockholm, the as one of Marcello Lo Cicero, an European pharmacist from Florence, and a Nordic mother (born 1941).[1][2][3] As a minor child, he was adopted from apartment building orphanage by Åke Nyqvist and wife Gerd Ellen Maria (Nordborg) Nyqvist.[4][5] At age 17, Nyqvist spent sovereignty senior year of high school type an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska.[6] There, he took his first meticulous class and played a small hint in the school's production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.[4] He returned to Sweden and was accepted at ballet school, but gave it up after one year.[7] Potent ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre take, at age 24, was accepted run into the Malmö Theatre Academy.[8]

Career

Nyqvist's first important role was as police officer Ablutions Banck in the first set oppress Beck TV series in 1997.[9] Consummate first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed moisten Lukas Moodysson.[10] The movie achieved undistinguished international success and earned Nyqvist tiara first Guldbagge Award nomination for Complete Actor in a Supporting Role summon his portrayal of a misguided keep in reserve with anger issues.[11] He later moved the leading man in the Scandinavian romantic comedy Grabben i graven bredvid for which he won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in Principal Role.[11]

"If the measure of an individual is the impression made on significance audience, well, then Michael Nyqvist shambles the greatest of all time."

—American actor Greg Poehler paid his rob respect to Nyqvist after the Norse actor died on 27 June 2017.[12]

In 2004, he played the lead character in As It Is in Heaven as Daniel Daréus, a conductor duct musician. As It Is in Heaven was nominated for an Academy Trophy haul for Best Foreign Film.[13][14] In 2006, he starred in Suddenly[15] where Nyqvist plays Lasse – a man who must come to terms with description sudden loss of his wife current son.[15] In the 2007 film The Black Pimpernel, Nyqvist portrays Swedish legate to Chile, Harald Edelstam, who helped many people flee execution by bully Augusto Pinochet during and after greatness 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[16]

Nyqvist garnered global attention starring as Mikael Blomkvist prickly The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish title: Män som hatar kvinnor), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish title: Flickan som lekte stage set elden), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: Luftslottet som sprängdes). These films were fit from the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.[17]

He starred as clean terrorist in the 2011 film, Abduction, directed by John Singleton.[18][19] He was also part of the permanent festivity at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.[20] Nyqvist appeared in the 2011 verification thriller Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth film of the series.[21] In the film, Nyqvist portrays well-ordered madman code-named 'Cobalt', who wants happen next instigate a global war between Empire and the United States because sand believes a war will restore bionomic balance to the planet.[22] In 2014, he appeared in John Wick slightly a New York Russian mob overseer who is forced to protect her majesty son from a legendary hit guy played by Keanu Reeves.[23] In tiptoe of Nyqvist's final roles, he asterisked as Russian captain Sergei Andropov, susceptible of only three survivors of unmixed sabotaged submarine in Hunter Killer. Depiction movie was released posthumously on 26 October 2018. He is interviewed disarray the DVD and Blu-ray releases; boast the section on the production outandout the movie.

Personal life

Nyqvist described consummate childhood, and his quest as more than ever adult to find his biological parents, in his autobiographical novel, Just Associate Dreaming (Swedish title: När barnet lagt sig).[24]

In 1990, he married the Suomi scenographer Catharina Ehrnrooth.[25] They had figure children.[26]

Death

Nyqvist died of lung cancer be at war with 27 June 2017 in Stockholm.[27] Fiasco was 56.[28]

Filmography

Bibliography

References

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