ACTOR

Michael Nyqvist

1960 - 2017

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Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (Swedish: [ˈnŷːkvɪst]; 8 November 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known for playing police officer Banck in the 1997–1998 Martin Beck TV series and for his leading role in the 2002 film Grabben i graven bredvid. He was internationally recognized for his role as Mikael Blomkvist in the acclaimed Millennium series and as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Nyqvist has received more than 5,081,697 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 36 in 2019). Michael Nyqvist is the 887th most popular actor (down from 686th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 156th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Actor.

Michael Nyqvist is most famous for his role as Mikael Blomkvist in the Swedish film trilogy, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael Nyqvist ranks 887 out of 13,578. Before him are Don Ameche, Mark Harmon, Jessica Chastain, Ewan McGregor, Brad Dourif, and Amy Adams. After him are Barbara Bach, Glenn Ford, Louise Brooks, Miki Manojlović, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Tatsuya Nakadai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Michael Nyqvist ranks 55. Before him are Kristin Scott Thomas, Lepa Brena, Naoki Urasawa, Neil Gaiman, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and Damon Hill. After him are Jafar Panahi, Jennifer Grey, John Galliano, Hideaki Anno, Walter Zenga, and Jonas Gahr Støre. Among people deceased in 2017, Michael Nyqvist ranks 81. Before him are Kim Jong-nam, Elsa Martinelli, Zhou Youguang, Ljubiša Samardžić, Chris Cornell, and Karl-Otto Apel. After him are Anita Pallenberg, Nicolai Gedda, Anne Wiazemsky, René Préval, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and Fats Domino.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Michael Nyqvist ranks 195 out of 1,879. Before him are Bo Larsson (1944), Inge the Younger (1100), Britt Ekland (1942), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Anna Lindh (1957), and John I of Sweden (1201). After him are Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Ingvar Carlsson (1934), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613), and Markus Persson (1979).

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Among ACTORS In Sweden

Among actors born in Sweden, Michael Nyqvist ranks 16. Before him are Harriet Andersson (1932), Erland Josephson (1923), Björn Andrésen (1955), Inger Nilsson (1959), Maud Adams (1945), and Britt Ekland (1942). After him are Ann-Margret (1941), Lena Olin (1955), Gunnar Björnstrand (1909), Gunnel Lindblom (1931), Mikael Persbrandt (1963), and Eva Dahlbeck (1920).

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Television and Movie Roles

John Wick
Viggo Tarasov
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Oct 22nd 20147.441 / 10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Mikael Blomkvist
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Feb 27th 20097.5 / 10
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Hendricks
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Dec 7th 20117.092 / 10