Biography
Rolf Holger Lassgård, born March 29, 1955 in Östersund, Jämtland, is a Swedish actor. Lassgård has been nominated for Guldbaggen award six times, of which he won two; for My Big Fat Father and A man called Ove.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bamse and the Secret of The Sea
2025
as Bamse (voice)
Bamse, Little Skutt and Skalman go out into open water and far down to the bottom of the sea. And Captain Buster is willing to do anything to earn the...

When in Rome
2024
as Johannes
Gerda and Kristoffer are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in Rome, where Gerda used to study art when she was young. But the trip doesn't go...

Bamse and the World's Smallest Adventure
2023
as Bamse (voice)
Nalle-Maja is with the family on a picnic, but no one seems to want to play with her. When she drinks XYZ juice alone and becomes tiny, everything tak...

Second Act
2023
as Harald
The great star of the Royal Dramatic Theatre has fallen ill, and must be cared for at home by a talkative, insecure woman who, over time, finds it dif...

Surprise
2023
as Tom
As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead,...

Love Proof
2022
as Thomas
Thomas and Marie are getting divorced and must meet one last weekend to empty and sell their summer house. Neither one of them knows the other's real ...

Quiet Freedom
2022
as Erik
Erik, recently retired, is looking forward to some post-work adventure and to enjoy his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh reality...

Bamse and the Volcano Island
2021
as Bamse (voice)
The classic trio in the Bamse universe; Bamse, Lille Skutt och Skalman, is going on a thrilling adventure to the centre of the earth. Their mission is...

Chess Story
2021
as Owen McConnor
1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo...

My Father Marianne
2020
as Lasse / Marianne
Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.

The Spy
2019
as Akrell
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German...

Downsizing
2017
as Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

Winnerbäck - A Kind of Life
2017
as Self
Lars Winnerbäck is one of Sweden's biggest artists for 15 years. At the same time he is one of those we know least about. Now Winnerbäck celebrates 20...

The Lion Woman
2016
as Gustav
Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he...

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
2016
as Self (archive footage)
The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in s...

A Man Called Ove
2015
as Ove
Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist....

Fatal News
2015
as Ray Steenkamp
West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Hols...

Miraklet i Viskan
2015
as Bjarne
Bjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money. Across the river lives Bjarnes father Halvar. The two...

Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt
2014
as Self
Portrait of one of Sweden's most popular actors; Rolf Lassgård. He is known for many of his roles in the Wallander films, The Hunters and My Big Fat F...

Uferlos!
2013
as Mikkel Nordergren
Swede Mikkel Nordergren unexpectedly inherits a lakeside property with a house in Brandenburg from his deceased father. Much to the chagrin of his nei...

False Trail
2011
as Erik Bäckström
The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters ...

Kennedy's Brain
2010
as Prof. Hellstrom
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursui...

So Different
2009
as Martin Larsson
Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted t...

Starring Maja
2009
as Self
In a hopeless small town in Sweden, lives Maja, 18 years old. Her highest and only dream is to become an actress. She wants to be the center of attent...

Storm
2009
as Jonas Dahlberg
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her m...

A Rational Solution
2009
as Erland Fjellgren
Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when th...
Ellas Geheimnis
2009

House of Fools
2008
as Freiner
At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.

Angel
2008
as Rick
Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the sp...

The Pyramid
2007
as Kurt Wallander
The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a dru...

Black Island Sisters
2007
as Kurre
The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.

To Love Someone
2007
as Alf
Lena lives a safe and happy life with her husband Alf and together they run a fish shop. No one who sees her can imagine what kind of hell she has gon...

After the Wedding
2006
as Jørgen
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

One Step Behind
2005
as Wallander
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is beli...

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
as Deafy
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likenes...

Three Suns
2004
as Torben Barberare
An epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years spent in the East during a long war. Hanna will find ...

Capricciosa
2003
as Henrik's Father
Henrik is seventeen years old and dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. He lives with his parents and two siblings, Johanna and Oliver, in ...

Family Secrets
2001
as Bosse Bendricks
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, u...

Gossip
2000
as Magnus Wiktorsson
A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.

Where The Rainbow Ends
1999
as Rajje - Raymond
"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in th...

The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
1999
as Selander
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and cla...

Under the Sun
1998
as Olof
Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps ...

Their Frozen Dream
1997
as Knut Frænkel (voice)
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

The White Lioness
1996
as Wallander
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization....

Such Is Life
1996
as Olle Sundqvist
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then...

The Potato Seller
1996
as Sture
In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta driv...

The Hunters
1996
as Erik Bäckström
A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-r...

The Dogs of Riga
1995
as Kurt Wallander
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. Th...

The Tears of Saint Peter
1995
as Mayor
Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Pet...

Stockholm Marathon
1994
as Gunvald Larsson
A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.
Sommarmord
1994
as 'Backhammer', chief of police
Sture is a rich alcoholic who has taken a trip to Mallorca to drink himself to death. But he meets Sylvia and they start a relationship. Sture moves i...

Cop Killer
1994
as Gunvald Larsson
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects...

The Man on the Balcony
1993
as Gunvald Larsson
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a...

Murder at the Savoy
1993
as Gunvald Larsson
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people inv...

Roseanna
1993
as Gunvald Larsson
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the mur...

The Slingshot
1993
as Prisoner
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from...

The Story of the Father Who Baked Princesses
1993
The father is sitting up in a skylift, and he is telling a fairy tale to his daughter. Wherever he moves during the day, in power stations, in old caf...

The Fire Engine That Disappeared
1993
as Gunvald Larsson
A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investiga...

My Big Fat Father
1992
as Fritz Algot 'Tjaffo' Nilsson
Summer of 1959. 11-year old Osvald spend his summer holiday with his parents in the countryside of Södermanland. His father has promised to play socce...

Önskas
1991
as Bosse
A forty something man, Bosse, perpetually down on his luck but always optimistic, hopes to impress his new girlfriend by accepting a job as headwaiter...
Kyrkkaffe
1989
There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his ser...

Limpan
1983
Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the ho...
The Swimmer
N/A
as Odvar
The story of an adrenaline junkie who travels the globe in search of the most tumultuous rivers to swim with no kayak, and no protection. But there's ...
Arne Goes to Space
N/A
An alien crashes his spaceship in northern Sweden and has to help two quarrelling brothers with hunting disputes and wood chopping.