As a teenager Michael Nyqvist was an exchange student in the USA, where he took his first drama class. After a celebrated career in Sweden he made his international breakthrough with the films based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Michael Nyqvist has played a wide range of roles but is best known for his interpretations of aggressive men. Thron Ullberg has focused on Nyqvist’s demonic aspect by portraying him as if he were a figure in a German expressionist film from the 1920s.