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Per Oscarsson

Swedish actor recognized for his powerful performances in film and theater.

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Known for: His award-winning role in the 1966 film Hunger
Listed under: Swedish Icons and Screen Icons

About Per Oscarsson

The twins had two elder siblings. Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving writer, in the social realism drama Hunger, based on the 1890 Knut Hamsun novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film 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. A fire started in the house of Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia Östling on the night of 30–31 December 2010. On 31 December, a relative found the house burned to...

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