Rolf Ake Mikael Michael Nyqvist was born on 8 November 1960 in Stockholm, the son of a Swedish mother and an Italian father.
10 Facts About Michael Nyqvist
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At age 17, Michael Nyqvist spent his senior year of high school as an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Michael Nyqvist returned to Sweden and was accepted at ballet school, but gave it up after one year.
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Michael Nyqvist later played the leading man in the Swedish romantic comedy Grabben i graven bredvid for which he won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in Leading Role.
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Michael Nyqvist garnered international attention starring as Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
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Michael Nyqvist starred as a terrorist in the 2011 film, Abduction, directed by John Singleton.
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Michael Nyqvist was part of the permanent ensemble at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.
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Michael Nyqvist is interviewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases; in the section on the production of the movie.
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Michael Nyqvist described his childhood, and his quest as an adult to find his biological parents, in his autobiographical novel, Just After Dreaming.
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Michael Nyqvist died of lung cancer on 27 June 2017 in Stockholm.