Rolf Lassgård
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Rolf Holger Lassgård (born March 29, 1955 in Östersund ) is a Swedish actor . He plays roles in both theater and film and is one of the most famous actors in Scandinavia.
life and work
After attending drama school in Malmö , he switched to Skånska Teatern in Landskrona, where he played in plays by William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht . His breakthrough came in the role of Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . It was at this theater that he met his future wife Birgitta, whom he married in 1982.
In the 1990s, he mainly concentrated on working in front of the camera. He has appeared in numerous international cinema and television films and has received many awards. He achieved his greatest fame in German-speaking countries through the impersonation of Commissioner Kurt Wallander , whom he played from 1994 to 2007 in the film adaptations of Henning Mankell's novels . In 2008 he shot the film Sturm under the direction of German director Hans-Christian Schmid , which took part in the 2009 Berlinale competition. In German-speaking he was most recently in 2010 in the presentation of murder suspect agents and architects Gunnar Andersson in the Bella Block - episode The black room to see. In 2015 he played the title character in A Man Called Ove , which was nominated for an Oscar in 2017 .
In the films The Trail of the Hunters and The Night of the Hunters from 1996 and 2011, respectively, Lassgård played the investigator Erik Bäckström. He played the same character from 2018 in the TV series Jäger - Tödliche Greed .
Lassgård lives in Gävle with his wife Birgitta and their three children Ida, Hanne and Anton .
Awards and honors
In 2017 Lassgård was honored with the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus .
Filmography
- 1983: Limpan
- 1989: Kyrkkaffe (short film)
- 1991: Önskas
- 1992: My big strong father ( Min store tjocke far )
- 1992: Kejsarn av Portugallien (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1993–1994: Beck (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1993: Kådisbellan
- 1993: Sagan om pappan som bakade prinsessor
- 1994: Summer murder
- 1995: Petri tårar
- 1996: The Trail of the Hunters ( Jägarna )
- 1996: Potatishandlaren
- 1996: now or never! ( Sånt är livet )
- 1997: En frusen dröm
- 1998: Kvinnan i det låsta rummet
- 1998: happiness comes tomorrow (Under solen)
- 1999: Där regnbågen slutar
- 1999: Magnetisörens femte vinter
- 2000: Gossip
- 2001: family member
- 2002: Hundarna
- 2003: Capricciosa
- 2004: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
- 2004: Tre solar
- 2006: After the wedding ( Efter brylluppet )
- 2006: Möbelhandlarens Dotter (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2007: Who you love ( Den man älskar )
- 2007: Järnets änglar
- 2008: Angel
- 2008: De galnas hus
- 2009: A sensible solution ( Det enda rationella )
- 2009: Storm ( Storm )
- 2009: Ella's secret
- 2009: Så olika
- 2010: Bella Block (TV series, episode: The Black Room )
- 2010: Sebastian Bergman ( Den fördömde , TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2010: Kennedy's brain
- 2011: The Night of the Hunters ( Jägarna 2 )
- 2011–2015: Dag (TV series, 26 episodes)
- 2013: Death of a Pilgrim ( En pilgrims död , TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2013: Shoreless!
- 2014: The fourth man ( Den fjärde mannen )
- 2015: The Barschel case
- 2015: A man named Ove (En man som heter Ove)
- 2017: downsizing
- 2017: The Lion Girl ( Løvekvinnen )
- 2018: Hunter - Deadly Greed ( Jägarna )
Also as Mankell's "Kurt Wallander":
- 1994: Faceless Murderer ( Mördare utan ansigte )
- 1995: Dogs of Riga ( Hundarna i Riga )
- 1996: The white lioness ( Den vita lejoninnan )
- 2000: The wrong track ( Villospår )
- 2002: The fifth woman ( Den 5: e kvinnan )
- 2003: The Man Who Smiled ( Mannen som log )
- 2005: Midsummer murder ( Steget efter )
- 2006: The fire wall ( Brandvägg )
- 2007: Wallander's last fall ( pyramids )
Web links
- Rolf Lassgård in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rolf Lassgård fansite ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Rolf Lassgård in the Nationalencyklopedin (Swedish)
- Rolf Lassgård in the database of the Svenska Filminstitutet (English / Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Lassgård's awards on Svensk Filmdatabas (Swedish), last accessed on August 14, 2011
- ↑ Sök ordens- och medaljförläningar. Royal House of Sweden, accessed September 29, 2019 (Swedish, database with the names of the owners of Litteris et Artibus since 1945).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lassgård, Rolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lassgård, Rolf Holger (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostersund , Sweden |