Ola Rapace Biography
Ola Rapace (full name: Pär Ola Rapace) is a Swedish actor and film producer who is known for works like Sjätte dagen (1999), Skyfall (2012), and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
Ola Rapace Age
Rapace is 47 years old as of 2018. He was born on December 3, 1971 in Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
Ola Rapace Parents
Not much is known of Rapace’s family only that he was raised by his father after his parents’ separation when he was a one-year-old child. They lived in Vallentuna, a middle-class suburb of Stockholm. He used to play football as a child and loved listening to heavy metal. He went to the University of Montpellier in France where he studied philosophy. While he was there, he discovered he coould act.
Ola Rapace Wife
Rapace is not married. He was however previously married to Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. The former couple exchanged their marriage vows in 2001 but in 2011 they got divorced. They share a son by the name Lev Rapace.
Ola was born as Pär Ola Norell but changed his surname to Rapace, which means “bird of prey” in French and Italian. The name was chosen by Ola and Noomi after their marriage. Even after their divorce, the surname still remained.
Ola Rapace Children
Rapace is a father of two: a daughter by the name Line Rapace and a son called Lev Rapace. Line was born in 1999 and she is his daughter with Malin Morgan, also an actress. His son Lev was born in 2003, a product of his marriage to Noomi Rapace.
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Ola’s first screen role was in Lukas Moodysson’s film Together, a bittersweet comedy about hippie-socialist values set in a Stockholm homeshare commune. The film won several awards at international film festivals, including the Paris Film Festival Special Jury Prize, and Philadelphia Film Festival Jury Award.
His big breakthrough came with the TV series Tusenbröder about a group handymen who get involved with organized crime. Immediately followed the role as Stefan Lindman in Wallander, which was based on Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander books.
He continued with several police and crime related TV-series, like portraying Daniel Nordström in the Danish police TV show Anna Pihl, Crimes of Passion, a crime drama set in 1950’s rural Sweden, Farang about a Scandinavian ex-convict living in Thailand and Hassel, an updated dark and gritty cop show based on a classic series of books from the 70’s and 80’s. This was a cop show he also executive produced.
His first English-language film was the 2004 independent movie Rancid starring Matthew Settle (from Band of Brothers and Gossip Girl). A much bigger project was the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, where he portrayed the hitman “Patrice”.
In 2015 he moved to Paris, France and has since worked on Swedish, French and international projects. In 2016, he starred in the French science fiction film Ares and soon after followed Section Zéro, a French TV-series about a para-military police squad in the near future.
Rapace had a supporting role as Major Gibson in Luc Besson’s 2017 French/American big budget comic book/science fiction film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In 2018 Rapace was the main antagonist in season 3 of Netflix/BBC’s popular Viking drama The Last Kingdom as “Jarl Sigurd Bloodhair”.
When Below the Surface (Gidseltagningen), a Danish drama about 15 innocent people held hostage underground in a subway train, returns for a second season in 2019 and Rapace will join the cast as “Yusef”.
Ola Rapace Movies and TV Shows
- 2017 – White Trash as Sami
- 2017 – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as Major Gibson
- 2016 – Ares as Arès
- 2016 – Carole Matthieu as Revel
- 2015 – Glada hälsningar från Missångerträsk as Jocke
- 2015 – Long Story Short as Sebastian
- 2014 – Itsi Bitsi
- 2014 – Tommy as Bobby
- 2013 – I Am Yours as Jesper
- 2013 – Mördaren ljuger inte ensam as Christer
- 2012 – Skyfall as Patrice
- 2011 – Jag saknar dig as George
- 2010 – Beyond as Johan
- 2007 – Allt om min buske (2007) – Nils
- 2006 – Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap as Elake Wille (voice)
- 2006 – Tusenbröder – Återkomsten as Hoffa
- 2004 – Rancid as Bob
- 2002 – Hus i helvete as Pontus
- 2001 – Syndare i sommarsol as Fredrik
- 2000 – Together as Lasse
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