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Michael Nyqvist (Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist) was born on 8 November, 1960 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish actor (1960–2017). Discover Michael Nyqvist'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 56 years old?

Popular As Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist
Occupation Actor, writer
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November, 1960
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Stockholm, Sweden
Date of death 27 June, 2017
Died Place Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Sweden

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Michael Nyqvist Height, Weight & Measurements

At 56 years old, Michael Nyqvist height is 1.78 m .

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Height 1.78 m
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Who Is Michael Nyqvist's Wife?

His wife is Catharina Ehrnrooth (m. 1990)

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Catharina Ehrnrooth (m. 1990)
Sibling Not Available
Children 2

Michael Nyqvist Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michael Nyqvist worth at the age of 56 years old? Michael Nyqvist’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Sweden. We have estimated Michael Nyqvist's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
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Source of Income Actor

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1960

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (8 November 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Swedish actor.

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist was born on 8 November 1960 in Stockholm, the son of a Swedish mother and an Italian father (from Florence).

As a young child, he was adopted from an orphanage.

At age 17, Nyqvist spent his senior year of high school as an exchange student in Omaha, Nebraska.

There, he took his first acting class and played a small part in the school's production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.

He returned to Sweden and was accepted at ballet school, but gave it up after one year.

An ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre and, at age 24, was accepted to the Malmö Theatre Academy.

1990

In 1990, he married the Finnish scenographer Catharina Ehrnrooth.

1991

They had two children—Ellen, born in 1991, and Arthur, who was born in 1996.

1997

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).

Nyqvist's first major role was as police officer John Banck in the first set of Beck TV series in 1997.

2000

His first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed by Lukas Moodysson.

The movie achieved great international success and earned Nyqvist his first Guldbagge Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of a misguided husband with anger issues.

He later played the leading man in the Swedish romantic comedy Grabben i graven bredvid for which he won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in Leading Role.

2004

In 2004, he played the leading role in As It Is in Heaven which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards.

In 2004, he played the lead role in As It Is in Heaven as Daniel Daréus, a conductor and musician.

As It Is in Heaven was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

2006

In 2006, he starred in Suddenly where Nyqvist plays Lasse – a man who must come to terms with the sudden loss of his wife and son.

2007

In the 2007 film The Black Pimpernel, Nyqvist portrays Swedish ambassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, who helped many people flee execution by dictator Augusto Pinochet during and after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

Nyqvist garnered international attention starring as Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish title: Män som hatar kvinnor), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish title: Flickan som lekte med elden), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: Luftslottet som sprängdes).

These films were adapted from the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.

2011

He starred as a terrorist in the 2011 film, Abduction, directed by John Singleton.

He was also part of the permanent ensemble at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Nyqvist appeared in the 2011 action thriller Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth film of the series.

In the film, Nyqvist portrays a madman code-named 'Cobalt', who wants to instigate a global war between Russia and the United States because he believes a war will restore ecological balance to the planet.

2014

In 2014, he appeared in John Wick as a New York Russian mob boss who is forced to protect his son from a legendary hit man played by Keanu Reeves.

In one of Nyqvist's final roles, he starred as Russian captain Sergei Andropov, one of only three survivors of a sabotaged submarine in Hunter Killer.

2017

Nyqvist died of lung cancer on 27 June 2017 in Stockholm.

He was 56.

2018

The movie was released posthumously on 26 October 2018.

He is interviewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases; in the section on the production of the movie.

Nyqvist described his childhood, and his quest as an adult to find his biological parents, in his autobiographical novel, Just After Dreaming (Swedish title: När barnet lagt sig).