Mikael Persbrandt Biography

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

His interest in acting started when working as an extra in Ingmar Bergman’s staging of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”

In the early 1990s, Mikael starred in a popular TV series, “Rederiet” (“The Shipping Company.”) He has also starred in other series such as “Storstad,” “Den vite riddare,” “Anna Holt- Polis” and in “Medicinmannen.” Mikael also has an extended theatre background and collaborated successfully 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. Among his other appearances at the Royal Dramatic Theatre mention can be made of “Maria Stuart” (directed by Ingmar Bergman,) “Don Juan,” “The Wild Duck,” “Miss Julie” and recently “The Sea Gull.”

In 1997, Persbrandt starred for the first time as the tough detective, Gunvald Larsson, the role that ultimately became his major break-through. “Beck” was not only a major hit in Sweden but in Germany as well – and now consists of 24 theatrical and television movies based on the characters created by authors Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöo.

Mikael’s other work includes starring roles in the Swedish films “The Hypnotist”, the “Hamilton” series, “Nagon annanstans i Sverige” (for which he received a 2011 Guldbagge nomination), “Stockholm East,” and “Day and Night.” He has starred in IFC Films’ “Everlasting Moments,” for which he earned the 2009 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor. In 2006, he earned Best Actor nominations for both 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 Acting. In 2005, Mikael received the highly coveted Ingmar Bergman award from the Guldbagge Awards. Mikael previously received Guldbagge nominations for his performances in director Peter Possne’s 2002 film, “Everybody Loves Alice,” and director Bo Norgren’s 1999 film, “Deathly Compulsion.”

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

Mikael Persbrandt Age

Mikael was born on 25th September 1963 (54 years as of 2017)

Mikael Persbrandt Height

He stands at 1.89m / 6 feet 2 inches

Mikael Persbrandt Net worth

He has an estimated net worth of  $5 Million

Mikael Persbrandt Wife

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

Mikael Persbrandt Barn/ Mikael Persbrandt Children

He has two children;

• Igor Edgar Persbrandt Lundell
• Åke Lo Persbrandt

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

Mikael Persbrandt and Sanna Lundell became cohabiting 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 farm award price.

Immediately thereafter, the couple also sold his old house at Älgö in the Stockholm archipelago, for 14,000,000 kronor, which was 300,000 kronor more than he bought the plot and the house from the beginning. Mikael Persbrandt has also sold a summerhouse on Gotland – where he instead made a loss business. The summer house was sold for SEK 3.9 million, which is a loss of SEK 600,000.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high 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 the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, following An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film 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 on 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 features 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.

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