Mikael Persbrandt

Mikael Persbrandt

Mikael Åke Persbrandt, born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of movies. He is internationally known for his starring role in the Academy Award-winning feature, In a Better World, directed by Susanne Bier. His performance earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. Other parts include the role of Carl Hamilton from the novels by Jan Guillou, Beorn in The Hobbit, as well as Jakob Nyman in the English TV series Sex Education. He has performed onstage with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and in numerous film and TV roles. Persbrandt is well known for his role as the hardboiled police inspector Gunvald Larsson, in the Beck series of films. He won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a leading role twice, the first in 2009 for Everlasting Moments and the second in 2014 for Nobody Owns Me. In 2015, Persbrandt reported that he would quit starring in his popular role of Gunvald Larsson. In 2019, Persbrandt began playing Jakob Nyman in the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education. He was a leading actor in the film The Salvation.

Known For: Acting

Born: Jakobsberg i Stockholms län, Sverige, 1963-09-25

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	Nigger	Svante	55
2	1994	Cop Killer	Police 1	59
3	1995	Between Summers	Peter	58
4	1996	Ellinors bröllop	C-O	70
5	1997	9 millimeter	Konstantin	42
6	1997	Nature's Warrior	Hjorth	48
7	1997	Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy	Gunvald Larsson	63
8	1997	Beneath the Surface	Roffe	82
9	1997	Beck - The Man with the Icons	Gunvald Larsson	56
10	1998	Beck 03 - White Nights	Gunvald Larsson	63
11	1998	The Last Contract	Roger Nyman	56
12	1998	Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye	Gunvald Larsson	61
13	1998	Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl	Gunvald Larsson	54
14	1998	102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger	Reader (voice)	100
15	1998	Beck 06 - The Monster	Gunvald Larsson	55
16	1998	Beck 07 - The Money Man	Gunvald Larsson	59
17	1998	Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness	Gunvald Larsson	68
18	1998	Hela härligheten	Glenn	70
19	1999	Fatimas tredje hemlighet	The paramedic	25
20	1999	Deadly Drift	Andreas Persson	50
21	1999	Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind	Georg	57
22	2000	Gossip	Åke Frigårdh	32
23	2001	Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance	Gunvald Larsson	65
24	2001	Dragonflies	Kullman	42
25	2001	Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face	Gunvald Larsson	58
26	2001	Beck 11 - The Cartel	Gunvald Larsson	56
27	2002	Beck 12 - The Loner	Gunvald Larsson	59
28	2002	Beck 13 - Sender Unknown	Gunvald Larsson	56
29	2002	Beck 14 - The Advertising Man	Gunvald Larsson	59
30	2002	Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball	Gunvald Larsson	60
31	2002	Beck 16 - The Last Witness	Gunvald Larsson	64
32	2002	Everyone Loves Alice	Johan	53
33	2003	Now	Adam (young)	56
34	2003	Gunnar Govin - en man, en röst, en resa	Kurt	50
35	2003	At Point Blank	Frank	51
36	2004	Playing with Fire	Axel	0
37	2004	Three Suns	Ulf	27
38	2004	Day and Night	Thomas	65
39	2004	Den starkare	X	80
40	2005	Double Shift	Jocke	35
41	2005	Bang Bang Orangutang	Åke	50
42	2005	Lovisa och Carl Michael	Westman	35
43	2006	Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight		0
44	2006	The Lovelife of a Fat Thief	Priest	45
45	2006	Beck 17 - The Scorpion	Gunvald Larsson	60
46	2006	Search	Björn	33
47	2006	No Tears	Lars	0
48	2006	One Way	Tomas Gaal	56
49	2006	Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar	Gunvald Larsson	61
50	2007	Beck 19 - The Vulture	Gunvald Larsson	54
51	2007	Beck 20 - The Lawyer	Gunvald Larsson	60
52	2007	Gangster	Thomas	21
53	2007	Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting	Gunvald Larsson	54
54	2007	Beck 22 - The Weak Link	Gunvald Larsson	56
55	2007	Wonderful and Loved by All	Mikael Persbrandt	57
56	2007	One Eye Red	Mikael Persbrandt	52
57	2007	Beck 23 - The Silent Scream	Gunvald Larsson	68
58	2007	Solstorm	Tomas Söderberg	54
59	2007	Beck 24 - In the Name of God	Gunvald Larsson	58
60	2008	The Kautokeino Rebellion	Carl Johan Ruth	60
61	2008	Heaven's Heart	Lars	58
62	2008	Everlasting Moments	Sigfrid Larsson	73
63	2009	Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm	Gunvald Larsson	55
64	2010	Beck 26 - Buried Alive	Gunvald Larsson	60
65	2010	In a Better World	Anton	71
66	2011	Stockholm East	Johan	56
67	2011	Somewhere Else	Stefan	50
68	2012	Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation	Carl Hamilton	61
69	2012	Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter	Carl Hamilton	59
70	2012	The Hypnotist	Erik Maria Bark	56
71	2013	Nobody Owns Me	Hasse	67
72	2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Beorn	76
73	2014	Someone You Love	Thomas Jacob	55
74	2014	The Salvation	Peter Jensen	65
75	2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Beorn	73
76	2015	Beck 27 - Room 302	Gunvald Larsson	60
77	2015	Beck 28 - The Family	Gunvald Larsson	57
78	2015	Beck 29 - Invasion	Gunvald Larsson	51
79	2015	Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders	Gunvald Larsson	52
80	2016	Beck 31 - Gunvald	Gunvald Larsson	56
81	2016	Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott	Self (archive footage)	50
82	2016	Alone in Berlin	Prall	67
83	2016	The Siege of Jadotville	Dag Hammarskjold	71
84	2017	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	Greybeard	66
85	2018	The Cake General	Hasse P	62
86	2018	Bergman: A Year in a Life	Self	74
87	2018	The Girl in the Spider's Web	Alexander Zalachenko	61
88	2018	X&Y	The Famous Actor	61
89	2019	Carl och spelreklamshelvetet	Self (archive footage)	0
90	2020	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	Victor Karlosson	64
91	2021	Till Sun Rises	Peder	48
92	2022	Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus	Self / Helmer Jr	0
93	2023	Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace	Dag Hammarskjöld	62
94	2024	Beck - bakom kulisserna	Gunvald Larsson (archive footage)	0
95	2025	Odyssey	Mysterious Viking	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	Enemy's Enemy	Vanchaufför	65
2	1992	Rederiet	Ola Simonsson	78
3	1994	Anna Holt - Den vite riddaren	Hellman	65
4	1994	Svensson, Svensson		52
5	1994	The Kingdom	Helmer Jr.	76
6	1996	Anna Holt	Jocke	40
7	1999	Beck	Gunvald Larsson	67
8	2005	Medicinmannen	Martin Holst	45
9	2006	Ett herrans liv	Self	95
10	2007	The 7 Deadly Sins	Himself	100
11	2008	Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)	Carl Johan Ruth	0
12	2008	Innocently Convicted		47
13	2009	Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik		0
14	2016	Vänligen: Lars Lerin	Self	100
15	2017	Tillsammans med Strömstedts	Himself	100
16	2019	Sex Education	Jakob Nyman	82
17	2019	Invisible Heroes	Harald Edelstam	74
18	2019	Expeditionen	Self	0
19	2021	Foundation	The Mule	78
20	2021	The Unlikely Murderer	Hans Holmér	67
21	2023	Reindeer Mafia	Stagge	76
22	2025	Kidnapping	Markus	80
23	2025	Mauri och Morberg - på en liten resa	Self	0

Mikael Persbrandt

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