Michael Nyqvist Movies and Career Information

Rolf Åke Michael Nyqvist (born November 8, 1960 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium Trilogy as Mikael Blomkvist and is one of Sweden's most beloved actors. As a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage and his biological father is Italian. At 17, he spent a year as an exchange student in the United States in Omaha, Nebraska. He took his first acting classes there, as a senior in high school playing, amongst other things, a small part in the drama Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. When he returned to Sweden, he was accepted at Ballet School, but after one year gave it up. An ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre instead and at 19, he was accepted to the Swedish Academic School of Drama. After graduating, Nyqvist worked mainly in theatre but also landed smaller parts in several different film productions. His first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed by Lukas Moodysson. The movie was set in the 1970's and followed the