Personal Info
Birth date
1962-02-21 (63 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Gothenburg, Sweden
Also known as
-Jakob Eklund
Biography
Jakob Anders Eklund (born 21 February 1962) is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He portrayed the fictional police officer Johan Falk in 20 movies. His wife, Marie Richardson, played his on-screen girlfriend in the trilogy of films The Third Wave, Executive Protection and Zero Tolerance, as well as in the other 17 films about Johan Falk, released between 2009 and 2015.
Filmography
Wallander
6.947
Overview:
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.Laura Trenter Presents
5.8
Overview:
Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter.The Guldbagge Awards
5.5
Overview:
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.Johan Falk
8.4
Overview:
When Johan Falk was 19 years old he lost his girlfriend Maria and their unborn child when Maria got hit by a car. Falk takes the accident very hard and do not even go to the funeral. He decides that crime must be fought and applies immediately to the Police Academy. The movies are, however, only about Falk as an police officer with many years of experience from the National Task Force. He often goes his own way and does not shy away from using controversial methods. This leads to that the colleagues often experience difficulties in cooperating with him and managers are forced to turn a blind eye to what he's doing.Tusenbröder
8.3
Overview:
Tusenbröder is a drama TV-series on Swedish Television in three seasons, from 2002, 2003 and 2006. The third installment of the series first opened on the big screen, March 10, 2006, edited together as one film, before later being shown on TV as a longer series.Snoken
5.6
Overview:
Aided by his dog Tubbe, private detective Anders Grip solve mysteries in Stockholm from a house boat.Honour
3.7
Overview:
Four partners at a law firm called "Heder" gain notoriety by helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy.The Machinery
6.9
Overview:
Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.Pip-Larssons
10
Overview:
In the 1950s a family with a large number of children builds their own home on wheels to be able to visit the mother's sister. During their journey they try to sell their own invention that is supposed to revolutionate the modern kitchen.August
6
Overview:
In 1876, Strindberg is penniless and once again his play "Master Olof" is rejected by the Royal Dramatic Theater. Debt collectors his furniture and Strindberg is on the verge of committing suicide.Johan Falk: Operation Näktergal
6.1
Overview:
Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.House of Angels
5.786
Overview:
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.The Third Wave
6.131
Overview:
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.Deadly Drift
5
Overview:
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse...Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser
6.541
Overview:
Johan works in tandem with the GSI organized crime unit to bring in a cadre of armored car robbersExecutive Protection
6.217
Overview:
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.Zero Tolerance
6.225
Overview:
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
6.7
Overview:
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears.Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
6.2
Overview:
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame.Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa
7
Overview:
Five men break into Frank Wagner's apartment. Frank is able to escape and seeks out the help of Johan Falk. Has someone leaked that Frank is working with the police? Frank and John don't know who knows what and whom to trust.House of Angels: The Second Summer
4.2
Overview:
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.Grown Ups
5.6
Overview:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.Out of Bounds
5.9
Overview:
A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit Stella's father Nathan who lives alone with his labrador. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to having a baby, but Oskar appears to have doubts. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan's provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable, and Stella is caught in between.Brothers: The Return
6.2
Overview:
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder for him to meet his family again. Meantime back in Sweden his family is struggling with difficulties which they don't know how to solve. The time is running out and things don't look good at all.To Steal a Thief
3.5
Overview:
Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute SusannaSolstorm
5.4
Overview:
While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna.House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
4.3
Overview:
A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?Acting
TBAJohan Falk: Slutet var bara början as Johan Falk
2022Beck 46 - The Crying Cop as Börje Järnlund
2020The Machinery (8 Episodes) as Henrik Hulten
2019My Life as a Comedian as Stefan
2019Honour (22 Episodes) as Klas Botvid
2018Filmen om Alexander as Self
2017Tillsammans med Strömstedts (1 Episode) as Himself
2015Johan Falk: The End as Johan Falk
2015Johan Falk: Lockdown as Johan Falk
2015Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds as Johan Falk
2015Johan Falk: Silent Diplomacy as Johan Falk
2015Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire as Johan Falk
2013Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa as Johan Falk
2012Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören as Johan Falk
2012Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan as Johan Falk
2012Johan Falk: Alla råns moder as Johan Falk
2012Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna as Johan Falk
2012Johan Falk: Spelets regler as Johan Falk
2011Out of Bounds as Nathan
2010House of Angels - Third Time Lucky as Mårten Flogfält
2009Johan Falk: The Outlaws as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk: Operation Näktergal as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk: Leo Gaut as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk: National Target as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk (17 Episodes) as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk: Vapenbröder as Johan Falk
2009Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser as Johan Falk
2008Grown Ups as Per
2008Heaven's Heart as Ulf
2007August (2 Episodes) as Olle Montanus
2007Solstorm as Måns Wenngren
2007Black Island Sisters as Micke
2006Wallander: The Joker as Frank Borg
2006Brothers: The Return as Petter
2006Möbelhandlarens dotter (11 Episodes) as Frank Tidman
2006Susanne Goes Single as Unknown
2005Wallander (1 Episode) as Frank Borg
2003Daybreak as Rickard
2003The Third Wave as Johan Falk
2002Laura Trenter Presents (3 Episodes) as Fredrik Ståhl
2002A Love Affair as Måns
2002Tusenbröder (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Executive Protection as Johan Falk
2001Anderssons älskarinna (6 Episodes) as Lars Andersson
2000The Birthday as Erik
1999Zero Tolerance as Johan Falk
1999Deadly Drift as Hansson
1998Pip-Larssons (12 Episodes) as Patrik Larsson
1997Run for Your Life as Erik
1997Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie as Göran
1996To Steal a Thief as Karl
1996Such Is Life as Paul Karlsson
1996En uppgörelse i den undre världen as Tommy
1995Bert: The Last Virgin as Benny Frisk
1995Like It Never Was Before as Harry
1994House of Angels: The Second Summer as Mårten Flogfält
1994Pillertrillaren as David Lesser
1993Pariserhjulet as Mårten
1993Snoken (1 Episode) as Ostric
1992House of Angels as Mårten Flogfält
1981The Guldbagge Awards (1 Episode) as Self