| Name |
Per Oscarsson |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Swedish |
| Date of Birth |
28-January-1927 |
| Place of Birth |
Bjarka, Sweden |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Oscarsson was born, along with his twin brother Bjorn, on 28 January 1927 on Kungsholmen, Stockholm. The twins had two elder siblings. Their mother, who was German, died in 1933.
Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving writer, in the social realism drama Hunger (Sult), based on the Knut Hamsun novel by the same name, a role for which he won both the 1966 Bodil and Cannes Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent movie role was as Holger Palmgren, the character Lisbeth Salander's publicly-appointed guardian, in the 2009 movies The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, based on Stieg Larsson's famous novels.
