1. Bo Johan Renck was born on 5 December 1966 and is a Swedish director of music videos, TV and film.
16 Facts About Johan Renck
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Johan Renck was originally a singer-songwriter from 1991 to 2001, using the moniker Stakka Bo, and had an international hit with his single "Here We Go" in 1993.
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Johan Renck was born on 5 December 1966 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of medical doctor and professor Hans Johan Renck and nurse Marina Kylberg.
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Johan Renck graduated from Stockholm School of Economics with a degree in business.
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Johan Renck started out as one half of Eurodance duo E-Type + Stakka B, but went solo after two singles, continuing to release music as Stakka Bo.
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Johan Renck has been associated with Swedish artists like Karin Dreijer and Kent.
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Johan Renck directed three episodes of AMC television drama Breaking Bad, and moved on to work on one episode of The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire, and Bates Motel.
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Johan Renck told Swedish magazine Cafe in 2017 that for a while he preferred to direct pilots, but now rather works on mini-series, where one can direct all episodes, such as with The Last Panthers.
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Johan Renck says he turned down Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones and Homeland.
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In 2019, Johan Renck directed the mini-series Chernobyl, a dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for SKY and HBO, featuring among others Stellan Skarsgard, Jared Harris and Emily Watson.
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Johan Renck won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special in 2019 for his work on Chernobyl.
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In January 2020, Johan Renck won the Directors Guild of America Award for Movies for Television and Limited Series.
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In June 2020, Johan Renck was revealed as executive producer and director of the pilot episode of HBO's television adaptation of The Last of Us with Chernobyl collaborator Craig Mazin; in January 2021, he was forced to drop out of the project due to scheduling conflicts, replaced as the pilot's director by Kantemir Balagov.
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Johan Renck was set to direct the pilot episode to Dune: Prophecy.
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Johan Renck signed to direct a TV adaptation of the novel The Day of the Triffids for Amazon Studios.
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Johan Renck is married to Elin Renck and has four children.