Trivia

Visited the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, together with soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic for an organization supporting the children's rights.

In his youth, he liked playing soccer and boxing. Although hanging around with his "tough" mates, he later applied to the Academy of Ballet in 1983.

Visited former child soldiers in Liberia for a Swedish UNICEF campaign against the exploitation of children (2004).

Persbrandt filmed 259 days in 1997, something (for the obvious reasons) he's never going to do again, he says.

Being the subject of much gossip in the Swedish press, he decided to sue a Swedish tabloid (2006).

His favorite Hollywood actors are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Gary Oldman and Sean Penn. Actresses are Gena Rowlands and Jessica Lange.

Lives in his house on Ingarö (a suburb outside of Stockholm).

Son, Igor Edgar Persbrandt Lundell, with girlfriend Sanna Lundell, was born May 6, 2006.

Went to Los Angeles for an audition of John Woo's Windtalkers (2002), but the role later went to Peter Stormare.

Girlfriend, Sanna Lundell, gave birth to a son, Åke Lo Persbrandt, on August 19, 2009. This is the couple's second child together.

Engaged to Maria Bonnevie from March 1998 to 2003.

Test filmed for a role in The 13th Warrior (1999), but didn't get it.

Made his stage debut at the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern in Stockholm (1984).

"Miss Julie" at Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden. (February 2006)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden. (1999)

Has played two different characters, in two different movies, both based on books and on true stories, where the character is named Hasse, is a working class man, supposedly an alcoholic and got a connection to Västmanland (Sweden). The first being "Mig äger ingen", the second being "Tårtgeneralen".

In 2002, he was a guest at Ola Lindholm's show called Riktig Talkshow.