Peter Franzén
Birthday: 1971-08-14
Place of Birth: Keminmaa, Finland
Biography: Peter Vilhelm Franzén (born August 14, 1971) is a Finnish actor, author, screenwriter, and director. As an actor, Franzén has appeared in over 50 films and TV series. For his role in Dog Nail Clipper (2004), Franzén was awarded a Jussi Award for Best Actor as well as earning praise from film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine who called the actor "one of the most talented and versatile thesps in Finland". In his career he has appeared in Finnish, Estonian, German, English, Swedish, and Hungarian speaking roles. In 2015, Franzén was cast as King Harald Finehair from the fourth season of Vikings. Franzén has also casted in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming The Wheel of Time TV series.
Movies
Train Birds
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the Intern...
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Bad Boys: A True Story
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide noto...
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At Point Blank
A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. T...
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Hellsinki
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood'...
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and fo...
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The Threat
A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threa...
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Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When t...
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Names in Marble
Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's go...
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Ambush
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A pla...
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Set Point
On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at f...
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On the Road to Emmaus
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nos...
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Dog Nail Clipper
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 19...
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Three Wise Men
Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink the...
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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in F...
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Body of Water
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a...
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Road North
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through...
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Purge
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people wer...
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Open Up to Me
At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something...
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A Summer by the River
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at...
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Asphalto
As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaph...
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Heart of a Lion
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting ...
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Suolaista ja makeaa
The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve....
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Boudica
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni peop...
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Above Dark Waters
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fe...
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The Gunman
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining...
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Red Is the Color of
The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-sp...
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Black Lotus
An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his fr...
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Alibi
Pain, not just war, makes strange bedfellows. In bed, APRIL SANCHEZ and JENNA BRYANT hatch a plan to...
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Nightless Night
Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals....
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The Abyss
As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as sec...
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Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI ...
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Johan Falk: The End
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John F...
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Homecoming
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daught...
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Beck 31 - Gunvald
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notori...
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The Mine
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit ...
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Kites Over Helsinki
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the ...
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Priest of Evil
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic ...
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Rally On!
This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sl...
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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the ...
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Lovers & Leavers
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true b...
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Ashes in the Snow
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of ...
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Kissan kuolema
In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually...
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Jewel of the Sahara
Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain,...
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The Matriarch
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs ...
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Rikos & rakkaus
In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish’s housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani...
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Bad Luck Love
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more comp...
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Cleaner
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But wh...
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Isabella
Irina Björklund plays Isabella, a priest who returns to her hometown, a small town in Ostrobothnia. ...
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Meander
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a brac...
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Baba's Cars
Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that b...
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Tie naisen sydämeen
Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets ...
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Lapland Odyssey 2
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lu...
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Tale of the Sleeping Giants
Tale of the Sleeping Giants is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: t...
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Princess
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with i...
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Mystery of the Wolf
Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mi...
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Takatöölö Story
A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang....
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Hamsters
A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden co...
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Deadly Rituals of the Flesh Loving Freaks - Katoamispiste
A man, his convertible and very dark thoughts. A mysterious woman in a red dress appears. Soon the m...
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Jäänmurtaja
14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes D...
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Lapland War
In 1944, at the tail end of the war—in which Finland aligned with Germany for a time in a bid to fig...
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