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Jasper Pääkkönen (Joona Jasper Pääkkönen) was born on 15 July, 1980 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish actor (born 1980). Discover Jasper Pääkkönen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

Popular As Joona Jasper Pääkkönen
Occupation Actor
Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 15 July 1980
Birthday 15 July
Birthplace Helsinki, Finland
Nationality Finland

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His wife is Alexandra Escat (m. 2017)

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Jasper Pääkkönen Net Worth

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Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1980

Joona Jasper Pääkkönen (born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish film actor.

1988

Pääkkönen's first film role was in The Glory and Misery of Human Life from 1988, when he was seven years old.

1997

When Pääkkönen was 17, he spent a year in Maryland as an exchange student at Baltimore's Owings Mills High School during the 1997–98 school year.

1999

He became famous as Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002).

According to a calculation published by Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, Pääkkönen is "the most profitable film actor in Finland" for having starred in numerous box office hits during his career.

Many of Pääkkönen's films have made #1 at the Finnish box office, including Bad Boys, which is one of the most successful Finnish films at the national box office of all time.

2005

Other of Pääkkönen's commercial and critical successes include Frozen Land (2005), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006), Lapland Odyssey (2010) and Heart of a Lion (2013).

For his role in Bad Boys, Pääkkönen was given the Best Actor Award in the Brussels International Independent Film Festival.

He has earned international praise from film critic Michael Giltz from the Huffington Post, who called the actor "handsome and compelling" in his role in Lapland Odyssey.

Film critic Leslie Felperin from Variety named Pääkkönen a "rising thesp, showing impressive range" in his starring role in Matti.

2006

In 2006 the European Film Promotion introduced Pääkkönen as the Shooting Star of Finland at the Berlin International Film Festival.

2009

In 2009 Pääkkönen founded the Pokerisivut.com poker magazine together with film producer Markus Selin.

2010

In 2010 Pokerisivut.com was awarded Best Overall Affiliate at the London 2010 iGB Affiliate Awards.

Pääkkönen is a member of the Vision fly fishing world team and has appeared on fly fishingTV shows and DVDs as a celebrity guest.

Pääkkönen is also known as the protector of endangered fish species of Finland (especially salmon).

He has also founded and is one of the owners of Superflies.com, which sells a selection of flies curated by Pääkkönen and raises funds for endangered native fish populations.

Pääkkönen has also begun an entrepreneurship with MP Antero Vartia.

They built a large sauna and restaurant complex called Löyly at the shore of Hernesaari, Helsinki which cost €6 million to build.

Pääkkönen is one of the founders of Röykkä Invest Oy, in whose name the former Nummela Sanatorium, located in the Röykkä village in Nurmijärvi, was bought for €1.5 million.

Pääkkönen has announced a plan to turn the former sanatorium into a hotel.

2013

In 2013, Pääkkönen starred in Finnish drama film Heart of a Lion that earned him his first Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor.

2015

Following a two-decade-plus career in Finnish movies, Pääkkönen's international breakthrough role came in 2015 in the historical drama television series Vikings (2016–2018; 2020) as Halfdan the Black.

In 2015, Pääkkönen was cast in the fourth season of the History Channel TV series Vikings as Halfdan the Black.

2017

Since 2017, Pääkkönen has been married to Spanish-Filipino model Alexandra Escat.

The couple had a daughter on Christmas Day 2021.

Pääkkönen announced the birth of their second child in january 2024.

2018

His next roles were in Spike Lee's comedy-drama film BlacKkKlansman (2018) and in the war drama film Da 5 Bloods (2020).

Pääkkönen was born in Helsinki, the son of actor Seppo Pääkkönen and Virve Havelin.

His uncle Antti Pääkkönen is also an actor, and is a prolific voice actor.

Already as a child, Pääkkönen was a theater assistant and attended Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts in Kallio, Helsinki.

Pääkkönen co-starred as a KKK member in Spike Lee's drama BlacKkKlansman, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released on 10 August 2018.

2020

He starred in Lee's 2020 Netflix production Da 5 Bloods.