Michael Nyqvist

Acting

Michael Nyqvist

Born — Died

1960-11-08 — 2017-06-27

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

82 titles

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 fro…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 25 titles

Hunter Killer poster
6.9

Untested American submarine commander, Capt. Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns a secret Russian coup is in the offing, a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Glass must coordinate with an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters, rescue the kidnapped Russian president, and hopefully prevent World War III.

Hunter Killer

2018

John Wick poster
7.5

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

John Wick

2014

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol poster
7.1

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

2011

Colonia poster
7.3

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

Colonia

2016

A Hidden Life poster
7.2

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

A Hidden Life

2019

Europa Report poster
6.3

A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

Europa Report

2013

Disconnect poster
7.1

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Disconnect

2013

I.T. poster
5.4

Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.

I.T.

2016

Abduction poster
5.8

For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the truth, he is hunted by assassins, forcing him to flee with his neighbor, Karen, the only person he can trust.

Abduction

2011

The Girl in the Book poster
5.8

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

The Girl in the Book

2015

The Girl King poster
6.2

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

The Girl King

2015

Frank & Lola poster
5.6

A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.

Frank & Lola

2016

Days and Nights poster
4.5

Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.

Days and Nights

2014

A Serious Game poster
5.5

In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

A Serious Game

2016

Kennedy's Brain poster
NR

A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.

Kennedy's Brain

2010

Don't F*#% With John Wick poster
7.4

Behind the scenes look at fight choreography and action training.

Don't F*#% With John Wick

2015

You Disappear poster
5.5

Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges.

You Disappear

2017

The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man poster
4.9

A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a passionate relationship.

The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man

2010

Paris Follies poster
5.9

Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions…

Paris Follies

2014

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry poster
7.2

Short documentary that looks at a number of elements like the initial pitch for the project and the 2nd Unit action sequences.

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry

2015

Among Us poster
6.2

An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a suspicious stranger with exceptional gifts changes their lives in an unexpected way.

Among Us

2010

The Girl from Nagasaki poster
5.6

'The Girl from Nagasaki' is a 3D feature film production of the classic Puccini Opera 'Madam Butterfly,' directed by world renown photographer Michel Comte. It's a modern day tale that starts with the young Madame Butterfly emerging from the ashes of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. By a subtle meshing of reality and fantasy, Michel Comte and his team bring to the screen a visual orgy of modern ballet, opera and narrative filmmaking.

The Girl from Nagasaki

2013

My So-Called Father poster
5.9

Pregnant Malin have no where to go, when her boyfriend breaks up. As a last resort she seeks up her father Martin, even tho they never met. But then before Malin get to tell who she is. Martin gets a stroke and when he wake up he dont remember who he is.

My So-Called Father

2014

For Better and Worse poster
4.0

A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.

For Better and Worse

2015

Michael Nyqvist - Ett porträtt poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Michael Nyqvist - Ett porträtt

2016

2000s · 22 titles

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo poster
7.5

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009

The Girl Who Played with Fire poster
7.0

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

The Girl Who Played with Fire

2009

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest poster
7.1

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009

Arn: The Knight Templar poster
6.3

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

Arn: The Knight Templar

2007

Together poster
7.0

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.

Together

2000

As It Is in Heaven poster
7.1

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.

As It Is in Heaven

2004

Next Door poster
6.4

After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.

Next Door

2005

Downloading Nancy poster
5.4

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters.

Downloading Nancy

2008

Mother of Mine poster
6.7

1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.

Mother of Mine

2005

Day and Night poster
6.4

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget.

Day and Night

2004

The Guy in the Grave Next Door poster
5.7

Desirée, a modern librarian with urban friends and interests is visiting her late husband's grave when she meets Benny, a simple farmer. After his mother's death Benny lives alone on the run-down farm, desperately seeking a woman to take care of him. In spite of their differences the two have the dream of finding that special someone in common, and fall passionately in love. Benny wants Desirée to move in with him and start a family as soon as possible. But being a farmer's wife is not something she is very enthusiastic about. Just presenting Benny as her boyfriend proves to be an embarrassing experience. And when she gets a tempting job offer in Stockholm she has to consider her priorities carefully.

The Guy in the Grave Next Door

2002

The Kautokeino Rebellion poster
6.1

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

2008

The Black Pimpernel poster
5.2

The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.

The Black Pimpernel

2007

We Can Be Heroes! poster
4.9

Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for her Muslim family. But then they start to support each other in a very delicate and subtle manner...

We Can Be Heroes!

2002

Shadow Boys poster
7.0

Lars Norén's TV-play depicts seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefinitely. A portrait of a hidden world and a stark reminder that these people exists.

Shadow Boys

2001

Bang Bang Orangutang poster
5.4

An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family...

Bang Bang Orangutang

2005

The Wedding Photographer poster
6.1

When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockholm as a wedding photographer. This experience changes not merely his outlook on life but also his hairstyle.

The Wedding Photographer

2009

Iscariot poster
4.4

A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.

Iscariot

2008

Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety

2001

Slim Susie poster
6.6

When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- Erik finds a woman who is not at all like the girl he left behind. Award-winning director Ulf Malmros helms this black comedy infused with hipster flair.

Slim Susie

2003

Details poster
4.7

Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.

Details

2003

His and Hers poster
4.6

Johan and Anna-Karin have been a couple for years but despite many attempts, Anna-Karin doesn't get pregnant. A visit to a fertility clinic shows why: Johan's sperm quality is too low. Johan is waiting to take over his father's farm, but what's the point if they can never have children? The news also puts a strain on their relationship since Anna-Karin desperately wants to be a mother.

His and Hers

2001

1990s · 12 titles

Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye poster
6.0

In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are women, and they were all in the same class, and Beck thinks that a scandal back in the past has something to do with the murders. But no one wants to talk about the past and it becomes a struggle to find the perpetrator before the final murder - only one woman is still alive.

Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye

1998

Beck 03 - White Nights poster
6.3

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

Beck 03 - White Nights

1998

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness poster
6.7

A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness

1998

Beck - The Man with the Icons poster
5.6

Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.

Beck - The Man with the Icons

1997

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy poster
6.3

A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address...

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy

1997

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl poster
5.6

Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl

1998

Beck 07 - The Money Man poster
6.2

A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been serving Gavling with secret information from the archive of the police authorities.

Beck 07 - The Money Man

1998

Jerusalem poster
7.3

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Jerusalem

1996

On the Last Verse: A Small Film About Death poster
6.0

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

On the Last Verse: A Small Film About Death

1999

Breaking Out poster
5.9

The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.

Breaking Out

1999

Waiting for the Tenor poster
7.3

The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of 1961, which changed their lives. The writing of the script awakens memories and forbidden questions are answered. Their friendship is put to the test a final time. Veranda for a tenor is a film about male friendship, but also about love. Their love for the same woman...

Waiting for the Tenor

1998

Such Is Life poster
4.5

Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.

Such Is Life

1996

Series credits

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

Beck poster
6.8

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Beck

1999

Skavlan poster
5.0

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Skavlan

2009

Hellenius Hörna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

Zero Hour poster
5.6

As the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and cracking conspiracies. But when his beautiful wife, Laila, is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of the most compelling mysteries in human history, stretching around the world and back centuries.

Zero Hour

2013

Millennium poster
7.6

Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.

Millennium

2010

Arn: The Knight Templar poster
7.6

Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.

Arn: The Knight Templar

2010

Madiba poster
7.8

A dramatization of Nelson Mandela's struggle to overturn apartheid in South Africa.

Madiba

2017

En dag i taget poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

En dag i taget

1999

100 Code poster
6.5

New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and act as an adviser to the Stockholm Police Department in order to help solve these crimes.

100 Code

2015

Olivia Twist poster
7.0

Charles Dickens's classical Oliver Twist story, but set in modern day Stockholm and with a girl as the main character.

Olivia Twist

2002

Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

2008

The Fifth Woman poster
6.8

The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.

The Fifth Woman

2002

Kvällspressen poster
7.5

The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.

Kvällspressen

1992

Bergs bärbara talkshow poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bergs bärbara talkshow

2013

The Chinese Man poster
5.0

A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin hears the news, she instantly knows that her grandparents August and Britta Andrén are among the victims. And even more: Almost everybody killed somehow relates to her. She realizes that the police are following a wrong track and starts to investigate on her own. Her search leads Brigitta to China where she finds out about the cruel scheming of the leading elite.

The Chinese Man

2011

Om Stig Petrés hemlighet poster
7.7

Stig Petré has inherited a mechanical factory from his father and has to deal with problems in the company.

Om Stig Petrés hemlighet

2004

Pluras jul poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pluras jul

2013

Skattejakten poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Skattejakten

2005

The Night Sister poster
6.8

Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel. An elderly woman is shot and killed in Ullevål Hageby. Witnesses have observed some boys on skateboards at the time the woman was shot. Cato Isaksen and his team are assigned to the case. They discover that the victim's grandchild in Drøbak has been missing for several months. Cato Isaksen is faced with a new and gruesome murder case.

The Night Sister

2008

Mauro & Plura's Kitchen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mauro & Plura's Kitchen

2010