Swedish website SVD got the chance to do an exclusive interview with Mikael Persbrandt who will be playing the role of Beorn in the upcoming Hobbit movie. He discuses how he was a Tolkien fan, that he ...

Mikael Persbrandt plays shape-shifter Beorn in the last two Hobbit movies. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, he helps Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarfs hide from orcs, and he can also transform ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Mikael Persbrandt plays an aging musician returning home to face his family in writer-director Pernille Fischer Christensen's fourth feature outing. By Jordan Mintzer someone you love Berlin Film ...

21/01/2016 - The Swedish actor, soon to be seen in three international features, leaves the Beck TV series after almost 20 years One of the lead characters, detective Gunvald Larsson – detective ...

In Anna Odell’s much-anticipated ”X&Y,” which world premieres as the opening film at the Stockholm Film Festival, the director also plays the leading role alongside Mikael Persbrandt, one of Sweden’s ...

The first in a new series of films centered on Stockholm cop Martin Beck, "Beck -- Revenge" is above all a showcase for excellent thesp Mikael Persbrandt as the title character's short-fused colleague ...

Mikael Persbrandt, most famous for his role as an antisocial police detective on the Swedish TV series "Beck," is also an accomplished stage actor and well-known film actor. Persbrandt studied ballet ...

Mikael Åke Persbrandt, born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of movies. He is internationally known for ...