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Simon J. Berger
Swedish actor (born 1979) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simon Jönsson Berger, known as Simon J. Berger (born 1 June 1979) is a Swedish actor.[1] He is the son of musician Bengt Berger and artist Gittan Jönsson.[2] He grew up in Stockholm and in Österlen.[3] He was educated at the Fridhem Folk High School and Malmö Theatre Academy, from which he graduated in 2007.[2] Berger has also acted at Scen Österlen, Lunds Studentteater, Malmö Stadsteater and Royal Dramatic Theatre.[2]
Berger became known to a wider Swedish audience by appearing in the 2007 television miniseries Upp till kamp, in which he played the leading role of Erik Westfeldt.[3] He was given the role while he still studied at Teaterhögskolan.[3]
Berger has also had the leading role in the Academy Award winning short film Istället för Abakadabra.[4] He won a Prix d'Interprétation Masculine award at the Brussels Short Film Festival for that role.[5] In 2010, he made his debut role at the Dramaten as Val Xavier in the play Mannen med Ormskinnsjackan.[6]
In 2012, he played the character Paul in the Jonas Gardell series Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves.[7] The series was broadcast on Swedish Television.[7] He also had a leading role in the 2012 film Call Girl.[8]
In 2015, he played Isak Aronson in TV 4's murder mystery miniseries Modus, which was screened in Australia by SBS[9] and in the UK by BBC Four[10]
From 2019 to 2023, Berger played Adam Vejle in Exit,[11] a series in 3 seasons that described the decadent lives of 4 men in Oslo's finance elites. It became the most streamed in the history of Norwegian national television.[12] His performance as a greedy mining director in the 2023 Norwegian historical drama The Riot was praised by Jan-Olov Andersson in Aftonbladet.[13]
He appeared in the second season of The Hunters in 2021.
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