Occupation Actor Children Zeth Hall Natterqvist Partner Sunshine Cunningham-Cole | Role Actor Name Joakim Natterqvist Grandparents Dag Natterqvist | |
 | ||
Full Name Dag Joakim Tedson Natterqvist Parents Ted Natterqvist, Pia Levin Natterqvist Movies Arn – The Knight Templar, Arn – The Kingdom at Road\'s End, Kiss Me, Tsatsiki – vanner for alltid, Waiting for the Tenor Similar People Peter Flinth, Sofia Helin, Alexandra‑Therese Keining, Tuomas Kantelinen, Eddie Thomas Petersen | ||
Lennart Sandelins videoprov på Acting Class med Joakim Nätterqvist, 14-15 september 2013
Dag Joakim Tedson Nätterqvist ([ˈjuːakɪm ˈnɛtːərkvɪst]; born 24 October 1974) is a Swedish actor.
Contents
Prima DONNOR - Sara Sommerfeld, Göran Gillinger och Joakim Nätterqvist
Background
Nätterqvist was born in Gamla Uppsala. He is the son of competitive equestrians Ted and Pia Levin Nätterqvist and grew up on Flammabyggets equestrian farm outside Laholm. Nätterqvis learned to ride at age of four and competed in show jumping as a child and teenager. He is the grandson of Swedish show jumping rider and trainer Dag Nätterqvist.
As a youth, he was more drawn to the world of sports, rather than drama, not only competing in equestrian sports, but playing ice hockey and football as well. After attending several smaller drama institutes, he graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in Stockholm in 2001. He quickly landed a three-year stint with Stockholm City Theatre, where he appeared in, among others, Hamlet and A View from the Bridge. He also had the chance to work with Lars Norén, considered by many to be Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright, at The National Theatre Company in his play Terminal.
He landed his first leading TV role in the 2002 mini-series Stackars Tom.
Arn: Knight Templar
Nätterqvist has since then moved on to television and film. He had his big breakthrough in 2007 when he starred in the movie Arn – The Knight Templar, its sequel and the six-part television series. Nätterqvist played the leading role of crusading knight Arn Magnusson. Once the stunt team realized how well Nätterqvist could ride, he ended up performing his own horse stunts. He also benefitted from previous classes in olympic fencing for several past theatre productions, and his general interest in fencing (he was a special guest and speaker at the 2012 Swedish Competitive Fencing Convention).
Nätterqvist was trained in medieval weapons and longbow archery by Steve Ralphs, costume armourer and archery coach for Game of Thrones, Wrath of the Titans and Ridley Scotts' Robin Hood.
This is the most expensive movie project in the history of Swedish film and was shot in English and Swedish, on location in Sweden, Scotland and Morocco with an international cast. The production was headed by Svensk Filmindustri in conjunction with Film i Väst, TV4 (Sweden), Telepool (Germany), Danmarks Radio (Denmark), YLE (Finland) and TV 2 (Norway).
The Arn project has been shown on television in many areas of the world. When it was shown in France on France 4, it went up against Showtime’s historical drama The Tudors, on NRJ12 in the same time slot, and rated with a higher numbers of viewers.
Recent projects
He has continued work with television, theatre and film. In 2011, he co-starred in the controversial Swedish film With Every Heartbeat/Kiss Me and award-winning music video director Adam Berg's film In. Americans saw him in the 2011 season finale of USA Network's series Covert Affairs.
Since the fall of 2011 he has been playing fashion designer and love interest Hugo Cronstedt in TV3’s popular romantic comedy-drama Elsas Värld. The show came back for a second series in 2013 and will consist of 20 episodes, lasting into the spring of 2014.
He spent most of the 2015 summer filming Viking, a Russian medieval epic. In the fall the same year he joined the cast of popular crime drama Maria Wern.
Personal life
He lives in Gamla stan, the medieval section of Stockholm. He has a son with actress Cecilia Häll named Zeth, Zeth recently provided the voice for one of the animated characters in the Swedish release of The Good Dinosaur.
Nätterqvist is bilingual in Swedish and English (he speaks English with two different accents, standardized American English and British Received Pronunciation).
He has a Britpop/Indie pop band named Nacissistic Street. They released the CD Soldier in Me in 2008. The album was recorded before he made his big breakthrough as the medieval knight and had to postpone the album release due to massive Arn project. In December 2011 the band performed at the European premiere of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
His favorite play is Macbeth.
Voted sexiest man in Sweden 2007 by Plaza Magazine
Nätterqvist has been very active raising money for UNICEF.
He is one of the founders of Actors Studio Stockholm, a two year drama academy.
In August 2013, rapper turned celebrity fitness trainer David “D-Flex” Seisay, published his book ‘’Träna med D-flex’’. Nätterqvist contributed to the book, and is featured in text and photos displaying Seisay's fitness instructions.
Unscripted Television
Nätterqvist has also worked with unscripted television. In 2010 he almost won the Swedish version of Let's Dance for Comic Relief with his interpretation of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. In spring 2011 he co-hosted the popular TV cooking show Klockan åtta hos stjärnorna. He has also participated in other shows such as Herr och Fru, Doobidoo and Fenomen med Uri Geller.
School
He is the co-founder of Actors Studio Stockholm, a 2 year academic program, that incorporates the Michael Chekhov acting technique with Swedish stage traditions. Nätterqvist has also taught drama at several other schools in Sweden, and worked with unemployed actors via the Public Employment Service.
Filmography
Cinema appearances