BIOGRAPHY OF MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

Mikael Persbrandt (Mikael Åke Persbrandt) is a Swedish actor born September 25, 1963 in Jakobsberg, Järfälla municipality, Stockholm county, Sweden. He is popularly known for his role in the Oscar-winning feature film, In a Better World, which earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor.

His interest in acting began when he worked as an extra in Ingmar Bergman’s production of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’.

In the early 1990s, Mikael starred in a popular television series, “Rederiet” (“The Shipping Company”). He also acted in other series such as “Storstad”, “Den vite riddare”, “Anna Holt-Polis” and in “Medicinmannen”. Mikael also has a long theatrical experience and successfully collaborated with director Thorsten Flinck on several Swedish productions such as ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’ at the Plaza Theatre, ‘Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti”, “The Good Person of Szechwan” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Other appearances at the Royal Dramatic Theater include ‘Maria Stuart’ (directed by Ingmar Bergman,) ‘Don Juan’, ‘The Wild Duck’, ‘Miss Julie’ and recently ‘The Sea Gull’

In 1997, Persbrandt first starred as tough detective Gunvald Larsson, the role that eventually became his major breakthrough. “Beck” was not only a big hit in Sweden but also in Germany – and now consists of 24 theater and television films based on the characters created by authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöo.

Mikael’s other work includes roles in the Swedish films ‘The Hypnotist’, the ‘Hamilton’ series, ‘Nagon annanstans i Sverige’ (for which he received a Guldbagge nomination in 2011), ‘Stockholm East’ and ‘ Day and Night”. He starred in IFC Films’ “Everlasting Moments,” for which he won the 2009 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor. In 2006, he earned Best Actor nominations for the Bodil (Denmark) and Guldbagge Awards for his performance opposite Lena Olin in Simon Staho’s ‘Bang Bang Orangutang’. He also starred in Staho’s “Day and Night,” which won the Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Hugo Award for Best Ensemble Act. In 2005, Mikael received the coveted Ingmar Bergman Award from the Guldbagge Awards.

He can be seen as the character Beorn in the highly anticipated final episode of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’, which will be released in December 2014. Mikael also stars in the drama ‘Someone You Love’, which chronicles the story of a living, world-famous Danish singer-songwriter who returns to his homeland to record a new album. After the Berlin Film Festival opened in 2014, “Someone You Love” won the Audience Award for Best International Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Mikael stars alongside Mads Mikkelson in the critically acclaimed feature film ‘The Salvation’, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival to a standing ovation and will be distributed by IFC Films.

ÂGE DE MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

Mikael was born on September 25, 1963 (54 years old in 2017)

MIKAEL PERSBRANDT AUTHOR

He is 1.89m / 6ft 2in tall

DEAR MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

He has an estimated net worth of $5 million

WIFE OF MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

He is in a relationship with Sanna Lundell, a freelance journalist and Swedish television presenter. She has worked as a journalist for the magazines Mama, M-Magasin, Hennes and the newspaper Aftonbladet. She also worked as a TV presenter at TV3 with shows such as Sanning och konsekvens with Robert Aschberg and Stalkers with Hasse Aro. Since June 2013, she has presented the TV3 documentary series Dokumentär.

CHILDREN OF MIKAEL PERSBRANDT / CHILDREN OF MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

He has two children;

• Igor Edgar Persbrandt Lundell
• Åke Lo Persbrandt

FILMED BY MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

MIKAEL PERSBRANDT BECK

MAISON MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

Mikael Persbrandt and Sanna Lundell bought a farm together in 2016, south of Stockholm. The luxury horse farm was bought for SEK 14,400,000 – 400,000 crowns more than the couple sold their house in Nacka when moving.

Mikael Persbrandt and Sanna Lundell started living together when they moved to a luxury horse farm in May 2016, a few miles south of Stockholm. The horse farm was bought for 14,400,000 SEK – the price of the farm.

Immediately afterwards, the couple also sold their old house in Älgö in the Stockholm archipelago, for 14,000,000 crowns, 300,000 crowns more than they had bought the land and the house from the start. Mikael Persbrandt also sold a summer house on Gotland – where he did a loss-making business instead. The summer house was sold for 3.9 million SEK, a loss of 600,000 SEK.

Maison Mikael Persbrandt

HOBBIT MIKAEL PERSBRANDT

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic fantasy action film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro. It is the third and final installment in Peter Jackson’s three-part film adaptation based on JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit novel, following An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and together they act like a Jackson prequel. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

It was produced by New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and WingNut Films, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Battle of the Five Armies was released on December 11, 2014 in New Zealand, December 12, 2014 in the United Kingdom, and December 17, 2014 in the United States. It stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott and James Nesbitt. It also includes Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving and Orlando Bloom.

The film received mixed reviews and grossed over $956 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2014 (behind Transformers: Age of Extinction) and the 44th-highest-grossing film of all. time. At the 87th Academy Awards, the film received a nomination for Best Sound Editing.