ACTOR
Mikael Persbrandt
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- #001
Mikael Persbrandt visited the favelas of São Paulo, Brazil, together with footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović for an organization supporting children's rights.
- #002
In 2004 he visited former child soldiers in Liberia for the Swedish UNICEF campaign against the exploitation of children.
- #003
In 1997 Persbrandt shot for 259 days, which he says he will never do again (for certain reasons).
- #004
In 2006 he decided to sue a Swedish tabloid newspaper that had made him the subject of much gossip in the Swedish press.
- #005
His favorite Hollywood actors are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Gary Oldman and Sean Penn; his favorite actresses are Gena Rowlands and Jessica Lange.
- #006
He lives in his house in Ingarö, a suburb outside Stockholm.
- #007
His son Igor Edgar Persbrandt Lundell was born on 6 May 2006 with his girlfriend Sanna Lundell.
- #008
His girlfriend Sanna Lundell gave birth to a boy named Åke Lo Persbrandt on 19 August 2009. This is the couple's second child together.
- #009
He was engaged to Maria Bonnevie from March 1998 to 2003.
- #010
He tested for a role in the film The 13th Warrior (1999) but did not get it.
- #011
He made his stage debut at the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm in 1984.
- #012
In 2002 he was a guest on Ola Lindholm's program Riktig Talkshow.
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