Jasper Pääkkönen
Date of birth: 1980-07-15
Place of birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Jasper Pääkkönen (born July 15, 1980) is a Finnish actor and entrepreneur. Pääkkönen became famous in Finland playing Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002) and have since then starred in many #1 Finnish box office hits, including Bad Boys (2003), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006) and Lapland Odyssey (2010). He made his international breakthrough role in historical drama television series Vikings (2015-2020) as Halfdan the Black. In March 2019, it was reported that Pääkkönen had been attached to Spike Lee's Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods. A week later, it was announced that Pääkkönen had also landed a major role in the upcoming Black Tower series based on the novels by Stephen King, but the series was subsequently cancelled in early 2020.
Movie Credits
Addiction
2004-01-16
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads
Bad Boys: A True Story
2003-01-17
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide noto
Hellsinki
2009-01-09
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood'
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
2006-01-13
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and fo
V2: Dead Angel
2007-01-12
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the
Vares: The Girls of April
2011-04-20
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year o
Vares: The Kiss of Evil
2011-01-06
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interest
Vares: Private Eye
2004-07-23
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the tra
Frozen Land
2005-01-14
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in tu
Vares: Garter Snake
2011-08-05
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter
Lapland Odyssey
2010-10-15
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made
Vares: Tango of Darkness
2012-10-05
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his
Vares: Gambling Chip
2012-03-16
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dati
Heart of a Lion
2013-10-18
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting
The Unhanged
2023-05-24
The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decid
Vares: The Sheriff
2015-01-07
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the ma
A Rare Grand Alignment
2024-10-03
In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body,
Vares X
2024-10-23
Vares gets a desperate phone call from his friend Kyypakkaus, who needs rescuing. While Vares rescue
Jet Trash
2016-06-24
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and part
BlacKkKlansman
2018-08-09
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman
Moomins and the Comet Chase
2010-08-06
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He ru
Da 5 Bloods
2020-06-12
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their
Naked Harbour
2012-02-03
In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young wo
Attack on Finland
2021-11-19
The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is a
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
2008-04-18
After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
1988-12-16
Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their live
The Subtenant
2008-09-12
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human rela
The Dark Tower
2020-03-11
Young Roland Deschain investigates a treacherous plot in the town of Mejis, far from his hometown of