FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Nyqvist
Michael Nyqvist
4 films · 257 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2019
Born 8 November 1960 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden · died 27 June 2017
Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist, better known as Michael Nyqvist, was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known for playing police officer Banck in the first series of Martin Beck films made in 1997, and later for his leading role in the film Grabben i graven bredvid in 2002. He was most recognized internationally for his role in the acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist, as well as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). In 2004, he played the leading role in the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film As It Is in Heaven.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 257 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2005–2019
- Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 257 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Michael takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 257 frames from Michael Nyqvist's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.