Mikael Persbrandt
Mikael Åke Persbrandt, born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of movies. He is internationally known for his starring role in the Academy Award-winning feature, In a Better World, directed by Susanne Bier. His performance earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. Other parts include the role of Carl Hamilton from the novels by Jan Guillou, Beorn in The Hobbit, as well as Jakob Nyman in the English TV series Sex Education. He has performed onstage with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and in numerous film and TV roles. Persbrandt is well known for his role as the hardboiled police inspector Gunvald Larsson, in the Beck series of films. He won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a leading role twice, the first in 2009 for Everlasting Moments and the second in 2014 for Nobody Owns Me. In 2015, Persbrandt reported that he would quit starring in his popular role of Gunvald Larsson. In 2019, Persbrandt began playing Jakob Nyman in the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education. He was a leading actor in the film The Salvation.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as BeornImmediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as BeornThe Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has...
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
as GreybeardWhen the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed...
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After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and...
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Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high...
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In a Better World
as AntonThe lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship...
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Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian...
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The Hypnotist
as Erik Maria BarkAfter a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire...
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Alone in Berlin
as PrallBerlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a...
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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
as Carl HamiltonCarl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish...
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Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace
as Dag HammarskjöldA speculative biopic about Swedish UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the anti-colonialist,...
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The Salvation
as Peter JensenIn 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the...
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter
as Carl HamiltonSwedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When...
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Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
as Gunvald LarssonA serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and...
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Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
as Gunvald LarssonMother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon,...
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Everlasting Moments
as Sigfrid LarssonIn a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins...
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Stockholm East
as JohanStockholm East is the love story between two strangers, bound together by a tragedy that has...
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One Way
as Tomas GaalTo cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an...
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Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind
as GeorgFrank leads a respectable yuppie life working at a noted Stockholm law firm. He has also been...
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Beck 23 - The Silent Scream
as Gunvald LarssonTwo young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of...
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At Point Blank
as FrankA gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in...
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Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
as Gunvald LarssonA man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been...
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Nobody Owns Me
as HasseThe story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of...
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The Cake General
as Hasse PSet in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in...
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9 millimeter
as KonstantinThe suburb that is a society within a society, a place where young guys do anything for...
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
as Carl Johan RuthReligious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
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Someone You Love
as Thomas JacobSomeone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los...
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Everyone Loves Alice
as JohanA love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in...
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Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar
as Gunvald LarssonA small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but...
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Beck - The Man with the Icons
as Gunvald LarssonBeck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
as SelfThe year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two...
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Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
as Gunvald LarssonA man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the...
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Polismördaren
as Polis 1A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at...
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Beck - bakom kulisserna
as Gunvald Larsson (archive footage)In the documentary Beck: Behind the Scenes we get an exclusive insight into the production of...
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Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm
as Gunvald LarssonWhen the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect...
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Beck 17 - The Scorpion
as Gunvald LarssonAn abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being...
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Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
as Gunvald LarssonTwo patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of...
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Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
as Gunvald LarssonIn this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all...
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Hela härligheten
as GlennTorsten William Olsson is a 43-year-old teacher, living in a small town. He has never had a...
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Beck 31 - Gunvald
as Gunvald LarssonAn investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a...
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Beck 24 - In the Name of God
as Gunvald LarssonA paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the...
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X&Y
as The Famous ActorAn artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to...
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Beck 26 - Buried Alive
as Gunvald LarssonIn a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing...
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Dragonflies
as KullmanEddie and Maria enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness...
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Beck 22 - The Weak Link
as Gunvald LarssonA teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to...
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Solstorm
as Tomas SöderbergWhile in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka...
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Beck 12 - The Loner
as Gunvald LarssonAn Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and...
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Beck 06 - The Monster
as Gunvald LarssonA bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the...
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Beck 07 - The Money Man
as Gunvald LarssonA homosexual police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs...
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Beck 19 - The Vulture
as Gunvald LarssonSwedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's...
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Till Sun Rises
as PederPeder runs into his ex-girlfriend Hanna one day. They're happily married with new partners but...
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Beck 27 - Room 302
as Gunvald LarssonThe body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been...
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Beck 11 - The Cartel
as Gunvald LarssonIt's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on...
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Wonderful and Loved by All
as Mikael PersbrandtIsabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable...
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
as Self / Helmer JrGet an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his...
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Day and Night
as ThomasThomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody,...
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Deadly Drift
as Andreas PerssonA present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and...
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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
as Gunvald LarssonMartin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an...
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Beck 16 - The Last Witness
as Gunvald LarssonA series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up...
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One Eye Red
as Mikael PersbrandtHalim has seen through it all. He has seen through the Integration plan a secret conspiracy that...
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The Last Contract
as Roger NymanYoung police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the...
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Beck 28 - The Family
as Gunvald LarssonWhen a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team...
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Gossip
as Åke FrigårdhA Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake...
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Beck 03 - White Nights
as Gunvald LarssonWhen the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver...
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Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
as Gunvald LarssonInspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from...
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Beck 20 - The Lawyer
as Gunvald LarssonThe murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company...
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Somewhere Else
as StefanAlongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like...
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Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
as Gunvald LarssonA man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this...
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Now
as Adam (young)A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But...
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Bang Bang Orangutang
as ÅkeAn overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can...
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Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
as Gunvald LarssonAn elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an...
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Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting
as Gunvald LarssonAfter a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a...
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Nigger
as SvanteNigger is a dark comedy about a young couple who are going to be parents. When the child comes,...
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Beck 29 - Invasion
as Gunvald LarssonThe bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be...
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No Tears
as LarsMagnus is a photographer specializing in family portraits. When he plans for his mother’s 75th...
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Heaven's Heart
as LarsTwo couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
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102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger
as Reader (voice)102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av...
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Search
as BjörnWoman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but...
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Beneath the Surface
as Roffe23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of...
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Gangster
as ThomasAntonio Moro works for gangster boss Thomas Ståhl. He lives happily with his girlfriend Tanya...
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Gunnar Govin - en man, en röst, en resa
as uncreditedGunnar Govin is making a home movie about the Sweden of today.
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Three Suns
as UlfAn epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years...
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Nature's Warrior
as Hjorth13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the...
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Den starkare
as XTwo friends meet at a café. The silent unmarried Mr Y and the outspoken married Mr X. When Mr X...
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The Lovelife of a Fat Thief
as PriestHarry is a pickpocket, torn between two beloved women, one of them the cop who arrested him, the...
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Double Shift
as JockeJonas has promised to take time off work to take care of his baby daughter so that his fiancé...
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Sex Education
as Jakob NymanInexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set...
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Foundation
as The MuleFollow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization...
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Beck
as Gunvald LarssonBeck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.
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The Kingdom
as Helmer Jr.The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of...
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Rederiet
as Ola SimonssonThis Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry...
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Invisible Heroes
as Harald EdelstamInvisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s...
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Ett herrans liv
as SelfEtt herrans liv is a Swedish TV series that airs on Kanal 5. The hosts are Filip Hammar &...
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Reindeer Mafia
as StaggePoromafia is a crime saga tinged with black humor, centered on the internal power struggle of a...
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Svensson, Svensson
as uncreditedSvensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a...
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The Unlikely Murderer
as Hans HolmérAfter the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude...
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Innocently Convicted
as uncreditedOskyldigt dömd is a Swedish drama television series from 2008. The first season was recorded in...
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Medicinmannen
as Martin HolstMartin Holst is the dynamic CEO of the pharmaceutical manufacturer Holst Medicals. When his son...
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Enemy's Enemy
as VanchaufförSomeone is killing off Swedish military officers and making it look like the works of Soviet...
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The 7 Deadly Sins
as HimselfOver the course of eight episodes, the famed Norwegian musician and performer Kristopher Schau...
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Vänligen: Lars Lerin
as SelfLars Lerin is one of Sweden most beloved artists. Now he seeks new friends and meet creative...
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Otmica
as MarkusInspired by a 2016 event, the series follows a child abduction that triggers a complex tale of...
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