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3	Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (November 8, 1960 – June 27, 2017), often just called ''Michael Nyqvist'', was a Swedish movie and theatre actor.
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5	Born as a half-Italian, he grew up with Swedish adoptive parents. He took his first acting experienced as an exchange student in America at the age of 17. At the age of 24, he was accepted at the Malmö Theatre Academy. After graduating, he was mainly a theatre actor, but after his breakout-role in ''Grabben I Graven Bredvid'' he started starring in numerous movies.
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7	Nyqvist died of lung cancer on June 27, 2017 at age 56.
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10	!!Selected filmography:
11	* ''Film/{{Beck\|1997}}'' (1997-1998) as John Banck
12	* ''Series/OliviaTwist'' (2002) as Fagerlund (Fagin)
13	* ''Film/SlimSusie'' (2003) as The Dark Voice
14	* ''Film/AsItIsInHeaven'' (2004) as Daniel Daréus
15	* ''Series/{{Wallander}}'' – Mastermind (2008) as Lothar Kraftzcyk
16	* ''Film/ArnTheKnightTemplar'' (2007) as Magnus Folkesson
17	* ''Film/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' (2009) as Mikael Blomkvist
18	* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' (2011) as Kurt Hendricks
19	* ''Film/JohnWick'' (2014) as Viggo Tarasov
20	* ''Film/TheColony2016'' as Paul Schaeffer
21	* ''Film/HunterKiller'' (2018) as Captain Sergei Andropov [[note]]The last film he played in.[[/note]]
22	* ''Film/AHiddenLife'' (2019) as Bishop Joseph Fliessen [[note]]His final film to be released, but not the last one he played in. This one was on [[invoked]]TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment since 2016.[[/note]]
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26	* PlayingAgainstType: The roles of Mikael Blomkvist, Kurt Hendricks and Viggo which he is most known for internationally notwithstanding, non-Swedes might be suprised to find out that in his homeland he was mostly know as a romantic lead and comedic actor.

Context Creator / MichaelNyqvist