Rest In Peace, Michael Nyqvist: (1960-2017)

MICHAEL NYQVIST
November 8, 1960– June 27, 2017 (age 56)
Cause of Death: Lung cancer

Michael Nyqvist was a Swedish actor who got his start in Stockholm. He would not reach the American audiences until after his performance in the 2009 Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the films (The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) and television series (Millenium) that followed, playing the male lead, Mikael Blomkvist. He would then go on to mostly play villains in American films, like Abduction, where he was a Serbian terrorist, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, where he was a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist, who seeks to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, and John Wick, where he was a New York Russian mob boss who is forced to protect his son from a legendary hit man, and he played all of these roles perfectly. Although most of his career was in Sweden, the few roles in America that he did have will live on as some of the best villainy work in the history of film.

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