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name: "Ola Rapace"
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born: "3 December 1971"
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# Ola Rapace

Actor. Born 3 December 1971 in Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 December 1971, Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden
- **Also known as:** Ola Rapace Norell, Pär Ola Norell, Ola Norell, اولا راپاس

## Biography

Ola Rapace is a Swedish actor. Born Pär Ola Norell on 3 December 1971 in Tyresö, he studied at the Theatre Academy of the University of Gothenburg and philosophy at the University of Montpellier in France.

His screen debut was as Lasse in the 2000 film *Together*. He had a breakthrough as Jan 'Hoffa' Lenhoff in the television series *Tusenbröder* (2002) and played Stefan Lindman in *Wallander* (2005). He is known internationally for the role of Patrice in *Skyfall* (2012), Major Gibson in *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017) and Bloodhair in *The Last Kingdom* (2018). He was married to actress Noomi Rapace from 2001 to 2011.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Skyfall* (2012), Fi1m 81, as Patrice — [page](https://film.one/film/skyfall.md)

## Also known for

- *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017), Major Gibson
- *The Last Kingdom* (2015), Bloodhair
- *Ares* (2016), Arès
- *Together* (2000), Lasse
- *Wallander* (2005), Stefan Lindman
- *Beyond* (2010), Johan
- *Solsidan* (2010), Himself

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