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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-02-21

Place of Birth

Gothenburg, Sweden

Jakob Eklund

Biography

Jakob Anders Eklund (born 21 February 1962) is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He portrayed the fictional police officer Johan Falk in 20 movies. His wife, Marie Richardson, played his on-screen girlfriend in the trilogy of films The Third Wave, Executive Protection and Zero Tolerance, as well as in the other 17 films about Johan Falk, released between 2009 and 2015.

Known for

Johan Falk

Johan Falk

When Johan Falk was 19 years old he lost his girlfriend Maria and their unborn child when Maria got hit by a car. Falk takes the accident very hard and do not even go to the funeral. He decides that crime must be fought and applies immediately to the Police Academy. The movies are, however, only about Falk as an police officer with many years of experience from the National Task Force. He often goes his own way and does not shy away from using controversial methods. This leads to that the colleagues often experience difficulties in cooperating with him and managers are forced to turn a blind eye to what he's doing.

Wallander

Wallander

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Cold Courage

Cold Courage

Two young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law. But, as their battle against exploitation, violence and corporate greed intensifies, will the Studio's ends continue to justify its means?

The Guldbagge Awards

The Guldbagge Awards

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

Snoken

Snoken

Aided by his dog Tubbe, private detective Anders Grip solve mysteries in Stockholm from a house boat.

Honour

Honour

Four partners at a law firm called "Heder" gain notoriety by helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy.

The Third Wave

The Third Wave

Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

Tusenbröder

Tusenbröder

Tusenbröder is a drama TV-series on Swedish Television in three seasons, from 2002, 2003 and 2006. The third installment of the series first opened on the big screen, March 10, 2006, edited together as one film, before later being shown on TV as a longer series.

The Machinery

The Machinery

Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.

Möbelhandlarens dotter

Möbelhandlarens dotter

Pip-Larssons

Pip-Larssons

In the 1950s a family with a large number of children builds their own home on wheels to be able to visit the mother's sister. During their journey they try to sell their own invention that is supposed to revolutionate the modern kitchen.

Solstorm

Solstorm

While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna.

Tillsammans med Strömstedts

Tillsammans med Strömstedts

Laura Trenter Presents

Laura Trenter Presents

Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter.

Johan Falk: Leo Gaut

Johan Falk: Leo Gaut

A car explodes in front of a primary school where GSI boss Patrick Agrell has just left his children. The event reunites Johan Falk with Leo Gaut, a former criminal restaurant owner who Johan put behind bars a decade ago.