Michael nyqvist

Although it is true that his face may have been familiar to moviegoers, he is one of those actors one never made the effort to retain the name of. Bah!, one more Swede with a last name almost impossible to pronounce… But lo and behold, the character of Mikael Blomkvist arrives and everything changes. Overnight, thanks to the gruesome saga written by Stieg Larsson , he becomes a famous actor and his international career is taking off.

The origin of Michael Nyqvist could well be the initial approach of one of the many black genre novels that Nordic authors have made fashionable. Stories full of baseness, secrets, blood and other insane behaviors. Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (his full name) was born in Stockholm and was taken by his parents to an orphanage. With one year of life he was adopted. Apparently he was not interested in his real parents until he himself was his father. His investigations led him to discover that he was the son of a Swedish and an Italian. The interpretation was not something that came to the actor from a young age. He began to dedicate himself to hockey and it was at the age of 17 that he had the first glimpse of what his work would be. It took place during a year spent in Omaha, in the US state of Nebraska.Arthur Miller . On his return to Sweden, at the age of 19, he was accepted at the Malmö Academic School of Drama and participated in several plays, while over the years he took his first steps in some television productions.

Her first appearance behind the camera was in the discreet telefilm Kamraterna (1982), where she had a slight role as a model. After participating in other small products for the small screen and practically acting as an extra in Jerusalem , by Bille August , his face began to become known in his country thanks to the successful crime series Beck , where he worked for seven episodes. But the truth is that she was not showered with papers, precisely, so she continued to appear in small telefilms and sporadic episodes of series. Meanwhile, in 1990 he married art designer Catharina Ehrnrooth, with whom he has had two children. Nine years later, in 1999, came one of his most recognized films, the comedyBreaking Out (Fuga en escena) , about a group of prisoners escaping from jail. And a year later he was one of the main characters in Together (2000) , a dramatic comedy by his compatriot Lukas Moodysson . Starting in 2000, at the age of 30, Nyqvist began to find more and more leading roles. He stood out in Hem ljuva hem (2001), a drama about domestic violence; the romantic comedy Grabben i graven bredvid (2002) and the drama Detaljer (2003), alongside Pernilla August . He later tried the horror genre in the unsuccessful London Voodoo (2004), but that same year he gave one of the best performances of his career inTierra de ángeles , a deep drama about a composer who returns to his icy hometown and who was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film. He then continued on the right path with his composition in Mother of Mine , a hard film set in World War II and the epic medieval adventure film The Knight Templar , an adaptation of the literary trilogy on the crusades written by Jan Guillou . Later, after his work in the American film Downloading Nancy , with Maria Bello , and in the thriller Iskariot , he got the opportunity of a lifetime when he was offered the role of Mikael Blomkvist.

In 2009 Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy had already produced a literary commotion throughout the world. As expected, the version in the cinema was going to be quite an event. Nyqvist was lucky enough to play one of the leads, the editor of Millennium magazine, who collaborates with Lisbeth Salander to investigate a series of heinous crimes. All three films were shot in the same year, but the best is undoubtedly the first, The Men Who Didn’t Love Women , directed by Niels Arden Oplev . The next two, The Girl Who Dreamed of a Match and a Can of Gasoline and The Queen in the Palace of Air Currents , were already somewhat inferior and were directed byDaniel Alfredson . But thanks to his media impact, everything made us hope that Michael Nyqvist’s career was going to receive the definitive accolade. And so it has happened.

After participating in two Swedish dramas of a certain importance in 2010, Kvinden der drømte om en mand and Änglavakt , with Izabella Scorupco , he made his definitive leap into Hollywood. She filmed Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol there and also landed a role in the action thriller No Way Out . In the last years of her career, she has shot titles such as the dramatic thriller Disconnect , with Paula Patton , and the action film John Wick , alongside Keanu Reeves . Kursk , a reconstruction of the tragedy of the Russian submarine, directed by Thomas Vinterberg , is pending its premiere .