16 Facts About Tomas Alfredson

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Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson was born on 1 April 1965 and is a Swedish film director who is best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

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Tomas Alfredson is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson.

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Tomas Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingo, Stockholms lan, Sweden, the son of Gunilla and comedian, writer, and director Hans "Hasse" Tomas Alfredson.

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Tomas Alfredson was used to being treated differently from an early age.

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Hasse was seldom home, and Tomas Alfredson was mostly raised by his mother.

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Tomas Alfredson's career started at Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked as an assistant.

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Tomas Alfredson was involved in the creation of the Swedish television channel TV4, where he worked in the entertainment department.

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Tomas Alfredson then moved on to Sveriges Television, creating television series such as Ikas TV-kalas, a children's television show starring Ika Nord, who would later appear in Tomas Alfredson's 2008 film Let the Right One In.

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In 1994 Tomas Alfredson directed Bert, another tv production based on the Bert diaries, a popular series of teenage novels written in the diary form.

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Tomas Alfredson joined the Swedish comedy group Killingganget as a director in 1999.

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Tomas Alfredson's first collaboration with the group was a 1999 series of four television films, including the mockumentary Screwed in Tallinn, which depicts a group of Swedish bachelors who travel to Estonia by bus in the hopes of finding Estonian girlfriends.

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The 2004 film Four Shades of Brown, directed by Tomas Alfredson, is Killingganget's only feature film to date.

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Domestically, the film won five Guldbagge Awards, with Tomas Alfredson receiving his second Guldbagge Award for Best Direction.

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In July 2009, Tomas Alfredson signed to direct a film adaptation of John le Carre's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

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In 2012, it was announced that Tomas Alfredson had acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's novel The Brothers Lionheart, with Tomas Alfredson planning to direct and John Ajvide Lindqvist to write the screenplay.

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Tomas Alfredson has two children with his ex-wife Cissi Elwin Frenkel, who was managing director of the Swedish Film Institute.