Andreas Wilson

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Andreas Wilson (born March 7, 1981 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish actor . Since the early 2000s, he has appeared in more than a dozen film and television productions. His award-winning leading role in the feature film Evil (2003) earned him international fame .

Life

Andreas Wilson was born in 1981 in the Swedish capital Stockholm and grew up in Täby . He attended the local Tibble High School, where he was taught acting and singing. Wilson began his acting career in the theater. Already in his school days he was on stage in productions at the Royal Dramatic Theater of Stockholm and acted as a leading actor in musicals such as Grease , West Side Story or Lars Noréns Details .

In 2003 the 1.70 meter tall actor made his film debut at the age of twenty-two, directed by Mikael Håfströms . In the drama Evil , based on the autobiography of the writer Jan Guillou , Wilson plays the 16-year-old Erik, who in the mid-1950s tried to compensate for domestic de-escalation with physical violence against his classmates. When Erik is expelled from school after a brawl, the young rebel is forced to take his A-levels at an elite boarding school in the Swedish provinces, where he has to fight off the sadism of his older classmates. Evil became one of the greatest commercial successes of Scandinavian cinema in the last few decades, with over a million viewers in Sweden alone. The film, which was understood by critics as a "story of friendship, rebellion and courage", received a nomination in 2003 (official census 2004) for the Oscar for best foreign language film as well as the Swedish film award Guldbagge and the Danish Robert . The main actor Andreas Wilson was also in the focus of the specialist criticism. His acting performance resulted in comparisons in the international press with James Dean and the young Marlon Brando . For his portrait of Erik, Wilson also received a nomination for the Guldbagge Film Prize for Best Actor and the Acting Prize at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2004 . Along with other young European actors, he was honored by the European Film Promotion as Shooting Star of the Year 2004.

After Evil , Andreas Wilson got the leading role in the science fiction thriller Animal two years later , with which he could not build on the previous film success. In the European co-production, staged in English by the director and screenwriter Roselyne Bosch , Wilson plays a young scientist whose research in the field of human aggression leads to a disaster. Also in 2005 followed the lead role in the Swedish thriller In the Sign of the Murderer , in which mysterious and brutal murders haunt the city of Stockholm, and in 2006 supporting roles in Rafael Edholm's action comedy Babas bilar and Björne Larson's Kill Your Darlings . In the following years Wilson played other leading roles in Scandinavian and international cinema, but could not build on his successful feature film debut.

Outside of the theater stage and the movie screen, the actor drew attention as a model for the American fashion label Abercrombie & Fitch . In a 2003 survey by the Swedish magazine Elle, Wilson ranked second among the 33 sexiest men in Sweden behind hip-hop musician Amir Chamdin .

Filmography

  • 2003: Evil ( Ondskan )
  • 2005: Animal
  • 2005: In the sign of the murderer ( Den utvalde )
  • 2006: Babas bilar
  • 2006: Kill Your Darlings
  • 2007: Colorado Avenue
  • 2010: Pax
  • 2010: Sebastian's Verden
  • 2010: Kennedy's brain
  • 2010: Bicycle Bride
  • 2011: The Italian Key
  • 2011: War of the Dead
  • 2012: Real Humans ( Äktaomanniskor ) (TV series)

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Christina Tilmann: Where the fists speak - "Evil": a brilliant film about the violence dilemma. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 18, 2004. From Tagesspiegel.de, accessed on January 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Hendrik Werner: At the limit of pain: the boarding school film "Evil". In: The world. October 14, 2004. From Welt.de, accessed January 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden