| Rolf Holger Lassgård | |
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Rolf Lassgård at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009 |
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| Born | 29 March 1955 Östersund, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Birgitta Lassgård (m. 1982–present) |
| Children | 3 |
Rolf Lassgård (born 29 March 1955 in Östersund, Jämtland) is a Swedish actor.
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A keen amateur ice hockey player in his youth, Lassgård also joined theatre teacher Ingemar Lind's Institute for the Performing Arts in the village of Storhögen outside Östersund. He then attended the Stage School in Malmö from 1975-78. There Lassgård met the director Peter Oskarson and joined his Skånska Teatern theatre company at Landskrona, where he remained for four years, making his first television appearance as "Puck" in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1980. Lassgård followed Oskarson to the Folkteatern company in Gävle in 1982, giving a series of highly acclaimed performances.[1]
Lassgård had various small film roles, but his breakout role was Kjell-Åke Andersson's 1992 film Min store tjocke far ("My big fat father") for which he won the 1992 Guldbagge Award as best male actor. He has gone on to play in a wide range of roles in films, notably as the policeman "Gunvald Larsson" in a series of films made in 1993-94, based on the Martin Beck novels, and starring Gösta Ekman, and as "Kurt Wallander" in the SVT TV-movie adaptations of the Henning Mankell novels from 1994–2007.[1]
He married the actress Birgitta Lassgård in 1982, they have three children.