Michael Nyqvist (born November 8, 1960 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he had his breakthrough as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. As a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage and his biological father is Italian. Michael Nyqvist spent his early years doing what most Swedish boys did in those days; he tried to play ice hockey during the winters and to score goals for his football team during the summers. At 17 he spent a year as an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States. This is where he, as a senior in high school, took his first acting classes - playing amongst other things a small part in the drama Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.

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Michael Nyqvist (born November 8, 1960 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he had his breakthrough as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. As a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage and his biological father is Italian. Michael Nyqvist spent his early years doing what most Swedish boys did in those days; he tried to play ice hockey during the winters and to score goals for his football team during the summers. At 17 he spent a year as an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States. This is where he, as a senior in high school, took his first acting classes - 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 of pliés and pirouettes he understood that ballet dancing wasn't his calling in life. An ex girlfriend advised him to try theatre instead and at the age of 19 he was accepted to the Swedish Academic School of Drama.
After graduating Michael worked mainly with 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 reached great international success. After that he has played leading parts in award winning movies such as Grabben i Graven Bredvid directed by Kjell Sundvall, As It Is in Heaven, directed by Kay Pollak and awarded in his most recently Suddenly directed by Johan Brisinger. Today he is one of Sweden's most beloved actors.
Nyqvist won the Guldbagge-Award for best male actor in 2003.
Awards
- Best Male Actor at the Guldbagge, the Swedish Oscar 2002
- Filmstar of the year 2002 and 2004 by Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper
- Best Male Actor 2003 by Nöjesguiden
- Price winner The Golden Sun, 2004
- Best Actor in the International Film Festival in Gijon 2003
- As It Is in Heaven was nominated as Best Foreign Film at the Oscar Awards 2004
- Best Male Actor in the International Film Festival in Minsk 2006
- Won the Audience Price at the Gulbagge Gala 2006

Filmography
- Jim och piraterna Blom (1987)
- Tic Tac (film) (1997)
- 1997 - Beck
- 1997 - Beck - Mannen med ikonerna (TV)
- 1997 - Beck - Pensionat Pärlan (TV)
- Nightwalk (1998)
- Veranda för en tenor (1998)
- 1998 - Beck - Öga för öga (TV)
- 1998 - Beck - Vita nätter (TV)
- 1998 - Beck - Moneyman (TV)
- Vägen ut (1999)
- Together (2000 film) (2000)
- Hem ljuva hem (2001)
- Making Babies (2001)
- Bäst i Sverige! (2002)
- 2002 - Grabben i graven bredvid
- Smala Sussie (2003)
- As It Is in Heaven (2004)
- Dag och Natt (2004)
- Äideistä Parhain (2005)
- Bang Bang Orangutang (2005)
- Underbara Älskade (2006)
- The Black Pimpernel (2007)
- Arn - The Knight Templar (2007)
- Kautokeino-opprøret (2008) (The Kautokeino Rebellion)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (film) (2009)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (film) (2009)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film) (2009)

External links
- at the Internet Movie Database
- at the Royal Dramatic Theatre
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