Jacob Cedergren

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Jakob Cedergren at the Berlinale 2009 .

Jakob Cedergren (born January 10, 1973 in Lund ) is a Swedish-born Danish actor in film, television and theater. He played in several cinema productions, including Stealing Rembrandt - Claws for Beginners , Dark Horse , Rage , Timetrip - The Curse of the Viking Witch and Submarino . But he was best known for his roles in the Scandinavian television series Northern Lights - Murderer Without Remorse and Murder in Midsummer .

life and career

Jakob Cedergren, born in 1973 in the Swedish city of Lund, grew up in Copenhagen . He finally received his training at the State Drama School in Copenhagen (Statens Teaterskole), where he also graduated in 1997.

In the spring of 1998 Cedergren appeared in Geir Sveaass ' staging of the Noël Coward play Design for Living at the Mungo Park Theater and a few months later he joined the ensemble of, among others, Lars Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, who was also little experienced in the theater Royal Theater . In the same year Cedergren made his feature film debut with a small part in Christian Braad Thomsen's comedy Den blå munk (1998).

Cedergren became known to a broad Danish audience from 2000 through the male lead alongside Lars Mikkelsen and Stine Stengade in Ole Christian Madsen's lavish multi-part television series Edderkoppen . In the six-part crime series, he was seen as a young journalist investigating the widespread illegal work in post-war Denmark in 1949 . After his successful foray into television, Cedergren continued to work in the theater in the years to come. As a youngster with no future prospects, he appeared in Lars Noréns Rumaenere (Folketeatret, 2001), while he played the leading role of Christian in the original theater version of Thomas Vinterberg's Das Fest (Mammutteatret, 2002). In 2001 he directed Jesper Hyldegaard's play Flugten , a guest appearance at Taastrup Teater.

After his appearance in the comedy by director Anders Thomas Jensen Comedy Danish Delicacies - May it be a little more? with Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen in 2003 he played his first leading role in Jannik Johansen's crime comedy Stealing Rembrandt - claws for beginners in the same year . This was followed by other roles in the romantic drama Dark Horse by Dagur Kári in 2005 and 2006 in Tomas Villum Jensen's comedy The Genius and Madness . In 2009 he was seen in Sally Potter's drama Rage and shortly afterwards in the adventure film Timetrip - The Curse of the Viking Witch by director Mogens Hagedorn. In 2010 the director Thomas Vinterberg engaged him for his drama Submarino , based on the novel of the same name by the Danish author Jonas T. Bengtsson .

Since 2000, Cedergren has also played various characters in popular Scandinavian television series and television miniseries. Among them roles in Der Adler - Die Spur des Verbrechens , Kommissarin Lund - Das Verbrechen , Nordlicht - Murderer without Regrets , where he impersonated the forensic scientist and profiler Thomas Schaeffer in 10 episodes, and he was also seen between 2010 and 2013 as Commissioner Thomas Andreasson in the crime series Murder in Midsummer .

Jakob Cedergren has been honored with various festival prizes and nominations in the course of his acting career, including the oldest Danish film prize of the Bodil or Robert as best leading actor in the drama Frygtelig lykkelig by director Henrik Ruben Genz.

In addition to his film and television career, Cedergren also occasionally took advantage of stage offers, for example in 2004 he was seen as Nick in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? .

Theater roles (selection)

actor

  • 1998: Design for Living (Teater Mungo Park)
  • 2000: Elton Johns Briller (Teater Mungo Park, role: Dan)
  • 2001: Rumaenere (Folketeatret)
  • 2002: Episode (Mammutteatret)
  • 2002: Festen (Mammutteatret, role: Christian)
  • 2003: At doe eller ikke at doe (Østre Gasværk Teater)

Director

  • 2001: Flugten (Taastrup Teater)

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

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Short film

  • 2003: Den nye mand
  • 2004: Panda syndrome
  • 2005: Steppe Elva
  • 2005: Bare Holger
  • 2005: Lille Lise
  • 2006: Any rule
  • 2007: Immeasurable
  • 2007: En dans på roser
  • 2008: Ofringen

Awards

  • 2009: Robert as best actor in the film Frygtelig lykkelig
  • 2009: Bodil as best actor in the film Frygtelig lykkelig
  • 2010: Nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actor in the Film Submarino

literature

  • Jacob Cedergren. In: Zitty, Volume 31, issues 23-26. , Zitty Verlag GmbH, 2007, p. 168

Web links

Commons : Jakob Cedergren  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linus Brännström: "Jakob Cedergren är nya Mikael Persbrandt" . (No longer available online.) In: Expressen . expressen.se, December 22, 2010, archived from the original on September 18, 2011 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.expressen.se
  2. ↑ "TV PROGRAM" . Jacob Cedergren. In: EXPRESS . express.de, January 1, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ cf. Thygesen, Peter: Kaerlighed paa Det Kongelige . In: Politiken , March 27, 1998, p. 2
  4. ↑ Kulturspiegel ( German ), monthly culture supplement to the magazine Der Spiegel . Edition, Spiegel-Verlag , Hamburg 2006, p. 44 (accessed on May 19, 2014): " Jakob Cedergren "
  5. ↑ Jakob Cedergren: Swedish thriller meets heart cinema . “Mordsommer Murder”: New crime series on ZDF. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . noz.de, May 15, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Cedergren, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund , Sweden