He was nominated for a Guldbagge (“Golden Beetle”, the Swedish Oscars), for best supporting actor. He moved between the stage and screen until, in 1997, he attracted attention as a detective in the first series of TV films based on Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Martin Beck novels.His Swedish breakthrough came in Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 film Together, playing a drunken abusive father. Next Door (Naboer) (2005) [Åke]: Beaten to death with a hammer (off-screen) by Kristoffer Joner after Michael enters Kristoffer's apartment; his body is shown when Kristoffer sees him in his bathroom. Gerard Butler, who worked with Nyqvist on yet to be released action thriller Hunter Killer, said he was "right up there" among the people he had acted alongside. Video'I refuse to let a British slaver take my name away' Video'I refuse to let a British slaver take my name away'Huw Edwards: My grandfather, Prisoner of War. As It Is in Heaven (2004) was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film; Nyqvist earned another Guldbagge nomination as the famous conductor who returns to the small town of his unhappy childhood and winds up taking over the choir.Mother of Mine (2005) earned him yet another Guldbagge nomination, and in 2007 in The Black Pimpernel he played Harald Edelstam, the Swedish ambassador who saved many people during the Pinochet coup in Chile. It wasn't until he had his first child that he decided to seek out his biological parents. He had been ill for some time, according to reports in Swedish media. According to a statement from Nyqvist’s family, the cause of death was lung cancer. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.Nyqvist played journalist Mikael Blomkvist in that film and its sequels, which formed the Millennium trilogy.The Swedish actor died on Tuesday after suffering from lung cancer for a year, according to a family statement. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! Michael Nyqvist Born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, it wasn't until he was over a year old when he was finally adopted from the orphanage he had … Michael Nyqvist (1960 - 2017) . He was a perfect fit for the character; Niels Arden […] PHOTO FRONT PHOTO BACK VideoMelania Trump ex-confidante tell-all dishes on 'Princess Ivanka'Jacob Blake: Trump visits Kenosha to back police after shootingWildlife Photographer of the Year: How many crocodiles can you see?BTS tell fans to 'stay strong' during difficult yearHeart of Belgian city mayor found entombed in fountainCharlie Hebdo: Magazine republishes controversial Mohammed cartoonsCoronavirus: Apple iPhones can contact-trace without Covid appLampedusa: Migrant with coronavirus gives birth in helicopter He was a perfect fit for the character; Niels Arden Oplev, who directed Dragon Tattoo, had no doubts casting him, explaining: “He is a Swedish teddy bear, women would feel safe in his arms.”This was crucial: the Dragon Tattoo’s original title in Swedish was Men Who Hate Women, and both the mystery at the centre of the story and the character of Lisbeth Salander, the tattooed girl (played by Noomi Rapace), are rooted in abuse. Swedes “use thrillers in a different way”, he said. When he was six he learned that he was adopted and was told that his biological father was Italian and his biological mother Swedish. He played another abusive father in Dan Ying’s Home Sweet Home (2001) and the following year won the best actor Guldbagge for The Guy in the Grave Next Door, playing a simple farmer in a romantic comedy, and had a leading role in the Swedish TV mini-series adaptation of Henning Mankell’s Wallander novel The Fifth Woman.His film parts grew more interesting. VideoTango competitors take to the living room floor. See instructions Michael Nyqvist Obituary. In Details (2003) he was a publishing editor having an affair with a young novelist. VideoGrowing up in the world's largest refugee camp. Even Nykvist’s character’s name recalls Astrid Lindgren’s boy detective Kalle Blomkvist, suggesting innocence; Nyqvist plays him as a man female viewers would love.His calm persistence holds together the two sequels, which lack the neat mystery of Dragon Tattoo.

Actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the film adaptation of Stieg … But he also continued to take the more sensitive roles that had attracted Oplev to him, roles that often involved disturbed family relationships that metaphorically echoed his own.Nykvist was born Rolf Ake Mikael in Stockholm, but soon placed in an orphanage. "His charm and charisma were undeniable. Michael Nyqvist, an actor who starred in the Swedish film version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," died Tuesday, June 27, 2017, of cancer, according to multiple news sources. "Michael's joy and passion were infectious to those who knew and loved him," his family said. “We never write a thriller like, ‘who is the murderer?’. © Copyright 2016 - Noomi-RapaceInfo.com Media caption Michael Nyqvist played journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the hit adaptation. In his 2010 memoir, Just After Dreaming, he explained, “I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. His most recent screen roles include the South African president HF Verwoerd in the Nelson Mandela miniseries Madiba (2017), and he played an Austrian bishop in Terrence Malick’s Radegund, starring Matthias Schoenaerts as a conscientious objector during the second world war, and another Russian in the thriller Hunter Killer, both to be released later this year.

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