20 Facts About Ola Rapace

Ola Rapace was born on 3 December 1971 in Tyreso, a suburb southeast of Stockholm, Sweden and named Par Ola Norell.

Ola Rapace grew up mainly in Vallentuna, a middle-class suburb north of Stockholm.

Ola Rapace grew up playing football and listening to heavy metal.

Ola Rapace continued with several police and crime-related TV series, including portraying Daniel Nordstrom in the Danish police TV show Anna Pihl, Crimes of Passion, a crime drama set in 1950's rural Sweden, Farang about a Scandinavian ex-convict living in Thailand and Hassel, an updated dark and gritty cop show based on a classic series of books from the '70s and '80s.

Ola Rapace lived in Paris from 2015 to 2020 and has worked on Swedish, French and international projects.

In 2018 Ola Rapace was one of the main antagonists in series 3 of the drama The Last Kingdom as Jarl Sigurd Bloodhair.

Ola Rapace joined the cast of Below the Surface, a Danish drama about 15 innocent people held hostage underground in a subway train, as "Yusef" when it returned for a second series in 2019.

Ola Rapace starred alongside Kellan Lutz in Divertimento, an English-language, French thriller that came out in 2020.

Ola Rapace was one of the participants in SVT's reality series Maestro, in which Swedish celebrities were taught the basics of conducting a classical orchestra.

Ola Rapace was one of five Swedish celebrities featured in 2020 edition of the popular TV series Stars at the Castle.

Ola Rapace married actress Noomi Ola Rapace in 2001, divorcing in 2011; they have a son, Lev, who was born in 2003.

Ola Rapace has a daughter, Line, born in 1999, with the actress Malin Morgan.

Ola Rapace lived in France for several years and speaks fluent French.

Ola Rapace has had several run-ins with the law, including spending the night in a jail in Austria.

Ola Rapace moved to Paris in 2015, but returned to Sweden five years later after an audit by French tax authorities which consumed most of his wealth.

Ola Rapace had paid 1.7 million SEK in cash to the landlord and was asking for the money back from the deceased landlord's estate.

Ola Rapace is the older sister of Aino Jawo, of Swedish electropop duo Icona Pop.

In 2020, Ola Rapace published his autobiography Romeo: Min flykt i fem akter.

Ola Rapace hosted the podcast Sorry, allt gick at helvete together radio host and author Fredrik Soderholm.

In one episode Ola Rapace explains how he while intoxicated stole a production van from a film shoot so he could drive to his house that apparently was on fire after the producer told him not to use the van.