Acting
Sep 10, 1968
Klippan, Skåne län, Sweden
Patrik Karlson
Acting
Biography
Patrik Karlson is an actor and voice actor interested in mind boggling storytelling, the work and vision of director's Yorgos Lanthimos, Ben Wheatley, Shane Carruth, Maren Ade. Patrik Karlson started acting in 1991 at the age of 23. He leads twenty five years of experience working in theatre and film. His first appearance in a play was in Willy Russell's "Blood Brothers", where he played the lead part, Mickey, and for which he received high acclaim. He also he co-founded the theatre company Teater Amabile in the small village of Klippan in the south of Sweden, together with Heléne Lindquist in 1991. He stayed with the company until 1996, when he moved to work with the Regional Theatre of Skåne. In the spring of 1999 Patrik made his playwright and directorial debut when he wrote, directed, and played the only part ("The man") in the monologue "Följ mig till tidens rand" ("Follow me to the end of time"), which toured Sweden throughout that year. The play deals with matters of love, beliefs, coming to terms with the past, and of life and death.
Feature Films (18)
Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
Wallander: Mastermind
A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.
Wallander: The Collector
LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.
LFO
Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. He is about to give up on his little store selling African art. Karin Carlsson-Said is a lawyer who is about to enter a new important step in her career as a lawyer. Her husband Moses must send money to his hospitalized father in Uganda, but there are problems with the transaction and has issues with keeping up his work as a Social Worker. Bosse is the TV star who finds out he has been fired off his own show and finds his young wife with another man, Hakan is a charming celebrity with an alcohol problem and now once again needs help from his lawyer Karin Carlsson-Said.
Dear Alice
Sara takes a job as a cleaner to find her missing daughter and strikes an uneasy alliance with the sinister janitor. They venture with a small group into the abyss underneath Malmö and the heart of darkness.
Feed the Light
A gripping and intense thriller about honour, loyalty, and the courage to fight for what you believe.
When Darkness Falls
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
The Third Wave
Two pop-girls move from Stockholm to Malmö thinking Malmö is cozy. They soon descend into hell.
Mysigt på Möllan
You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something you see every day. Her name is Robin and she not only claims to have witnessed a gruesome murder but also to having killed her assailant in self-defense. The problem is that the police doesn’t find any trace to prove what happened to her. It remains a complete mystery. Robin feels abandoned by the police, who clearly think she’s the victim of an overactive imagination. Ever her husband and her sister have all the trouble in the world to believe her. She reaches a chilling conclusion. If she didn’t kill the murderer, he must still be out there, wanting to end what he started.
Robin
A town in south of Sweden is isolated after a viral outbreak. The Swedes and immigrants still inside must band together to survive the onslaught.
Operation Ragnarok
Erik leaves the big city and travels to a small community deep inside the Swedish forests. In the idyllic village he visits his sister Lisa, whom he has not met in five years. She seems worried about something, and afterwards she disappears without a trace. During Erik's investigations of what happened to her, he realizes that Lisa isn't the first to disappear and that people in the silent society know more than they say.
Lisa
Television & Series (9)
Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.
Summer with the Family
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
The Bridge
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
The Fifth Woman
In this adaption of a Henning Mankell novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a case of murder and trade of human organs.
Mannen Som Log
Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.
