Jasper Pääkkönen

Jasper Pääkkönen
Pääkkönen in 2018
Born (1980-07-15) 15 July 1980
Helsinki, Finland
Occupation Actor, entrepreneur
Years active 1988–present
Awards FIFI Best Actor
2003 Bad Boys
Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor
2013 Heart of a Lion

Jasper Pääkkönen (born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish film actor and entrepreneur.

After his over two-decade career in Finnish movies his international breakthrough role was in 2015 in historical drama television series Vikings (2013–) as Halfdan the Black. His next role was in Spike Lee's comedy-drama film BlacKkKlansman (2018).

Early life

Pääkkönen was born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of actor Seppo Pääkkönen and Virve Havelin.[1]

Career

Pääkkönen became famous as Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002). According to a calculation published by Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, Pääkkönen is "the most profitable film actor in Finland"[2] for having starred in numerous box office hits during his career.[3] Many of Pääkkönen's films have made #1 at the Finnish box office, including Bad Boys, which is one of the most successful Finnish films at the national box office of all time. Other of Pääkkönen's commercial and critical successes include Frozen Land (2005), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006) and Lapland Odyssey (2010).

Pääkkönen with Spike Lee and the cast of BlacKkKlansman at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

For his role in Bad Boys, Pääkkönen was given the Best Actor Award in the Brussels International Independent Film Festival. He has earned international praise from film critic Michael Giltz from the Huffington Post, who called the actor "handsome and compelling"[4] in his role in Lapland Odyssey. Film critic Leslie Felperin from Variety named Pääkkönen a "rising thesp, showing impressive range" in his starring role in Matti.[5] In 2006 the European Film Promotion introduced Pääkkönen as the Shooting Star of Finland[6] at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2013, Pääkkönen starred in Finnish drama film Heart of a Lion that earned him his first Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, Pääkkönen was cast in the fourth season of the History Channel TV series Vikings as Halfdan the Black.[7]

Pääkkönen co-starred as a KKK member in Spike Lee's drama BlacKkKlansman, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released on August 10, 2018.

Other work

In 2009 Pääkkönen founded the Pokerisivut.com poker magazine together with film producer Markus Selin. In 2010 Pokerisivut.com was awarded Best Overall Affiliate at the London 2010 iGB Affiliate Awards.[8]

Pääkkönen is a member of Vision fly fishing world team[9] and has appeared on fly fishing TV shows and DVDs as a celebrity guest.

Pääkkönen has also begun an entrepreneurship with MP Antero Vartia. They built a large sauna and restaurant complex called Löyly at the shore of Hernesaari, Helsinki which cost 6 million euros to build.

Filmography

Year Title Role Director Notes
1988 Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus Arvi Hongisto Matti Kassila
2003 Bad Boys Eero Takkunen Aleksi Mäkelä
2004 Levottomat 3 Aleksi Minna Virtanen
2004 Vares - yksityisetsivä Jarmo Aleksi Mäkelä
2005 Paha maa (Frozen Land) Niko Smolander Aku Louhimies
2006 Matti: Hell Is for Heroes Matti Nykänen Aleksi Mäkelä
2007 V2 - Jäätynyt enkeli (Vares 2) Dante Hell Aleksi Mäkelä
2008 Kummeli Alivuokralainen Kikke Matti Grönberg
2009 Hellsinki Korppu Aleksi Mäkelä
2010 Lapland Odyssey Kapu Dome Karukoski
2011 The Kiss of Evil Kyypakkaus Anders Engström
2011 Vares - Sukkanauhakäärme Kyypakkaus Lauri Törhönen
2011 Vares - Huhtikuun tytöt Kyypakkaus Lauri Törhönen
2012 Naked Harbour Anders Aku Louhimies
2012 Vares - Uhkapelimerkki Kyypakkaus Lauri Törhönen
2012 Vares - Pimeyden Tango Kyypakkaus Lauri Törhönen
2013 Heart of a Lion Harri Dome Karukoski Won the Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor
2015 Vares - Sheriffi Kyypakkaus Hannu Salonen
2016 Jet Trash Mike Charles Henri Belleville
2018 BlacKkKlansman Felix Kendrickson Spike Lee

Television credits

Year Title Role Notes
1999–2002 Salatut elämät Saku Salin Regular role; 387 episodes
2003 Kaunis mies Joonatan Kuusisto
2003 Irtiottoja - Fragments[10] Johnny
2016–2018 Vikings Halfdan the Black Fourth collaboration with Peter Franzén

References


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