Sverrir Gudnason (born 12 September 1978; in Icelandic: Sverrir Páll
Guðnason) is a Swedish actor of Icelandic origin.Gudnason was born in
Lund, Sweden, and raised in ReykjavÃk, Iceland. He moved with his
family to Tyresö, Sweden, in 1990 when his father found work as a
professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. At the 2009 Shanghai
International Film Festival, he received an award for Best Actor for
his role in the Swedish/Danish film Original. He has since played the
role of Pontus Höijer in the second series of Wallander as well as
leading roles in productions at both Gothenburg's and Stockholm's city
theatres.In May 2016, it was announced that he was cast as Björn Borg
in the 2017 film Borg vs McEnroe. In 2018, he played Mikael Blomkvist
in the thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web. In the 2020 film Falling
which was written, directed and played in by Viggo Mortensen, Gudnason
plays the role of the caustically misogynist father as a difficult
young family man in the flashback scenes.
Guðnason) is a Swedish actor of Icelandic origin.Gudnason was born in
Lund, Sweden, and raised in ReykjavÃk, Iceland. He moved with his
family to Tyresö, Sweden, in 1990 when his father found work as a
professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. At the 2009 Shanghai
International Film Festival, he received an award for Best Actor for
his role in the Swedish/Danish film Original. He has since played the
role of Pontus Höijer in the second series of Wallander as well as
leading roles in productions at both Gothenburg's and Stockholm's city
theatres.In May 2016, it was announced that he was cast as Björn Borg
in the 2017 film Borg vs McEnroe. In 2018, he played Mikael Blomkvist
in the thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web. In the 2020 film Falling
which was written, directed and played in by Viggo Mortensen, Gudnason
plays the role of the caustically misogynist father as a difficult
young family man in the flashback scenes.
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