Michael Nyqvist
Birthday: 1960-11-08
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Biography: Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (November 8, 1960 – June 27, 2017), better known as Michael Nyqvist, was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known for playing police officer Banck in the first series of Martin Beck films made in 1997, and later for his leading role in the film Grabben i graven bredvid in 2002. He was most recognized internationally for his role in the acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist, as well 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 the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film As It Is in Heaven. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Nyqvist, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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As It Is in Heaven
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...
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Next Door
After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is...
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Together
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...
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Kamraterna
Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the top...
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Slim Susie
When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to ...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and cor...
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Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his...
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The Wedding Photographer
When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockhol...
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to f...
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village....
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Arn: The Knight Templar
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land...
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The Guy in the Grave Next Door
Desirée, a modern librarian with urban friends and interests is visiting her late husband's grave wh...
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Suddenly
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-...
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The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man
A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling,...
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Iscariot
A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug de...
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Among Us
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. I...
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The Black Pimpernel
The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect th...
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Downloading Nancy
When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy,...
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Breaking Out
The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison....
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His and Hers
Johan and Anna-Karin have been a couple for years but despite many attempts, Anna-Karin doesn't get ...
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We Can Be Heroes!
Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have d...
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks,...
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Tic Tac
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the invol...
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Abduction
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what ...
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Bang Bang Orangutang
An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can hap...
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Details
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their...
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London Voodoo
When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to...
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Disconnect
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his famil...
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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father....
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The Confession
A couple from Estonia visits a town in Sweden. One of the locals visits them a few times until one n...
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Don't F*#% With John Wick
Behind the scenes look at fight choreography and action training....
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John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
Short documentary that looks at a number of elements like the initial pitch for the project and the ...
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Europa Report
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon....
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Wallander: Mastermind
Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder th...
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Waiting for the Tenor
The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let ...
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Days and Nights
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragil...
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The Girl from Nagasaki
'The Girl from Nagasaki' is a 3D feature film production of the classic Puccini Opera 'Madam Butterf...
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Paris Follies
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is...
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My So-Called Father
Pregnant Malin have no where to go, when her boyfriend breaks up. As a last resort she seeks up her ...
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Day and Night
Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his ...
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John Wick
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from hi...
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Jim and the Pirates Blom
Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but...
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Hjärta av sten
A russian hit man gets trapped in Stockholm after killing a competitor. A Swedish police officer tra...
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For Better and Worse
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out ...
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Mother of Mine
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parent...
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Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the e...
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Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over...
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Beck 03 - White Nights
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is S...
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The Girl King
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the cons...
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Frank & Lola
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealou...
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Colonia
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dign...
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Kennedy's Brain
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Afri...
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The Girl in the Book
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....
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A Serious Game
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each...
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I.T.
Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daugh...
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Personkrets 3:1
A lot of hell and very little heaven heaven among homeless and damaged characters in Stockholm. The ...
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You Disappear
Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 millio...
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Hunter Killer
Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and ...
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Shadow Boys
Lars Norén's TV-play depicts seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefin...
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Beck - The Man with the Icons
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Sec...
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ABBA - The Last Video
ABBA - THE LAST VIDEO is the film about four hopeful musicians in search of a record contract. They ...
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A Hidden Life
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
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Such Is Life
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. St...
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Jerusalem
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine....
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Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven....
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Beck 07 - The Money Man
A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's u...
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Search
Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it tu...
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Home Sweet Home
The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. ...
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