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Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (Swedish: [ˈnŷːkvɪst]; 8 November 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known for playing police officer Banck in the 1997–1998 Martin Beck TV series and for his leading role in the 2002 film Grabben i graven bredvid. He was internationally recognized for his role as Mikael Blomkvist in the acclaimed Millennium series and as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). In 2004, he played the leading role in As It Is in Heaven which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards.

Mikael Nyqvist
Nyqvist in 2013
Born	Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (1960-11-08)8 November 1960 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	27 June 2017(2017-06-27) (aged 56) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Actor, writer
Years active	1982–2017
Spouse	Catharina Ehrnrooth ​ (m. 1990)​
Children	2

Early life

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was born on 8 November 1960 in Stockholm, the son of a Swedish mother and an Italian father (from Florence).[1][2] As a young child, he was adopted from an orphanage.[3] At age 17, Nyqvist spent his senior year of high school as an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska.[4] There, he took his first acting class and played a small part in the school's production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.[3] He returned to Sweden and was accepted at ballet school, but gave it up after one year.[5] An ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre and, at age 24, was accepted to the Malmö Theatre Academy.[6]

Career

Nyqvist's first major role was as police officer John Banck in the first set of Beck TV series in 1997.[7] His first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed by Lukas Moodysson.[8] The movie achieved great international success and earned Nyqvist his first Guldbagge Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of a misguided husband with anger issues.[9] He later played the leading man in the Swedish romantic comedy Grabben i graven bredvid for which he won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in Leading Role.[9]

In 2004, he played the lead role in As It Is in Heaven as Daniel Daréus, a conductor and musician. As It Is in Heaven was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.[11][12] In 2006, he starred in Suddenly[13] where Nyqvist plays Lasse – a man who must come to terms with the sudden loss of his wife and son.[13] In the 2007 film The Black Pimpernel, Nyqvist portrays Swedish ambassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, who helped many people flee execution by dictator Augusto Pinochet during and after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[14]

Nyqvist garnered international attention starring as Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish title: Män som hatar kvinnor), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish title: Flickan som lekte med elden), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: Luftslottet som sprängdes). These films were adapted from the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.[15]

He starred as a terrorist in the 2011 film, Abduction, directed by John Singleton.[16][17] He was also part of the permanent ensemble at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.[18] Nyqvist appeared in the 2011 action thriller Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth film of the series.[19] In the film, Nyqvist portrays a madman code-named 'Cobalt', who wants to instigate a global war between Russia and the United States because he believes a war will restore ecological balance to the planet.[20] In 2014, he appeared in John Wick as a New York Russian mob boss who is forced to protect his son from a legendary hit man played by Keanu Reeves.[21] In one of Nyqvist's final roles, he starred as Russian captain Sergei Andropov, one of only three survivors of a sabotaged submarine in Hunter Killer. The movie was released posthumously on 26 October 2018. He is interviewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases; in the section on the production of the movie.

Personal life

Nyqvist described his childhood, and his quest as an adult to find his biological parents, in his autobiographical novel, Just After Dreaming (Swedish title: När barnet lagt sig).[22]

In 1990, he married the Finnish scenographer Catharina Ehrnrooth.[23] They had two children—Ellen, born in 1991, and Arthur, who was born in 1996.[24]

Death

Nyqvist died of lung cancer on 27 June 2017 in Stockholm.[25] He was 56.[26]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Kamraterna	The model	TV movie[27][28]
1987	Jim och piraterna Blom		[27][28]
1990	Pass		TV movie[27][28]
1996	Jerusalem	Carpenter 1	[citation needed]
	Sånt är livet	Kalle Andersson	[27][28]
1997	Tic Tac	Vinni
1997–1998	Beck	John Banck	TV series, 7 episodes[27][28]
1998	Nightwalk		Short[27][28]
	Waiting for the Tenor	The director	[27][28]
	Personkrets 3:1	Karl-Erik	TV movie[27][28]
1999	Breaking out	Diego	[27][28]
	En dag i taget	Henrik	TV Series[27][28]
2000	10:10	Magnus	Short[27][28]
	Together	Rolf	Nominated – Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role[27][28]
	Hjärta av sten	Lev	[citation needed]
2001	Making Babies	Doctor	[27][28]
	Home Sweet Home	Kent
2002	Grabben i graven bredvid	Benny	Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role[27][28]
	Bäst i Sverige!	Giuseppe	[citation needed]
2003	Smala Sussie	Mörka Rösten ("Dark Voice")	[27][28]
	Detailjer	Erik
2004	London Voodoo	Magnus	[citation needed]
	ABBA: Our Last Video Ever		TV Short[27][28]
	Day and night	Jacob	[27][28]
	As It Is in Heaven	Daniel Daréus	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominated film Nominated – Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role[27][28]
2005	Shadow world	Henrik	Short[27][28]
	Naboer	Åke	[27][28]
	Mother of Mine	Hjalmar Jönsson	Nominated – Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role[27][28]
	Bang Bang Orangutang	Sven Blomberg	[27][28]
	Wallander: Mastermind	Lothar Kraftzcyk
2006	Search	Janne
	Elias og kongeskipet	Joviale	Swedish version, Voice[citation needed]
	Suddenly	Lasse	[27][28]
2007	The Black Pimpernel	Harald Edelstam
	Arn: The Knight Templar	Magnus Folkesson
2008	The Kautokeino Rebellion	Lars Levi Laestadius
	Downloading Nancy	Stan
	Iscariot	Masen
2009	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Mikael Blomkvist
	The Girl Who Played with Fire
	Bröllopsfotografen	Stage actor
	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	Mikael Blomkvist
2010	The Woman That Dreamed About a Man	Johan
	Among Us	Ernst
	Kennedys Hirn	Lars Hakansson	TV movie[27][28]
2011	The Man from Beijing [de]	Staffan	TV movie
	Abduction	Nikola Kozlow	[27][28]
	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Kurt Hendricks
2012	Disconnect	Stephen Schumacher
2013	Zero Hour	White Vincent	TV Series[27][28]
	Europa Report	Andrei Blok	[27][28]
	The Girl from Nagasaki	Father Lars
	Days and Nights	Johan
2014	Paris Follies	Jesper
	Min så kallade pappa	Martin Sandahl	[citation needed]
	John Wick	Viggo Tarasov	[27][28]
	100 Code	Mikael Eklund	TV Series[27][28]
2015	The Girl King	Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna	[27][28]
	Colonia	Paul Schäfer	Nominated – German Film Award for Best Supporting Actor[27][28]
	The Girl in the Book	Milan Daneker	[27][28]
2016	Frank & Lola	Alan Larsson
	Den allvarsamma leken	Markel	[citation needed]
	I.T.	Henrik	[27][28]
2017	Madiba	Hendrik Verwoerd	TV Mini-Series[27][28]
	Du Forsvinder	Bernard Berman	[27][28]
2018	Kursk	Nesterov	Posthumous release[27][28]
	Hunter Killer	Captain Sergei Andropov
2019	A Hidden Life	Bishop Joseph Fliessen

Bibliography

• Dansa för oss (2013)[29]
• När barnet lagt sig (2011)[22]

References

External links

• Michael Nyqvist at IMDb
• Michael Nyqvist at the Royal Dramatic Theatre
• Larsson Trilogy from Quercus, publishers of Stieg Larsson
• The official Millennium site of Nordstedt Publishing (in Swedish)
• The Michael Nyqvist Archives – English-language website on his career

На других языках

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[de] Mikael Nyqvist

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈmikaɛl ˈnʏˌkvist] (auch Michael Nyqvist; * 8. November 1960 in Stockholm; † 27. Juni 2017 ebenda[1]) war ein schwedischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler.

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- [en] Michael Nyqvist

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[es] Mikael Nyqvist

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (Estocolmo; 8 de noviembre de 1960 - ibídem; 27 de junio de 2017)[1] fue un actor sueco.

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[ru] Нюквист, Микаэль

Рольф Оке Микаэ́ль Нюквист (швед. Rolf Åke Michael[4] Nyqvist; 8 ноября 1960, Стокгольм, Швеция — 27 июня 2017[5], там же) — шведский актёр. Наиболее известен по ролям в сериале «Бек» (1997—1998) и экранизации трилогии «Миллениум» в роли Микаэля Блумквиста.

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