Jyrki Mäkelä(II)
- Actor
- Producer
- Executive
Jyrki was born in a small village in North Karelia province in Finland. His parents were running a small farm and raising their four children, Jyrki being the youngest of them. From a very early age he had a knack for entertaining people. "I guess it started as a necessity to have some sort of fun as there weren't even single one kid living at the same village who'd be same age than I was, and school was just horrible experience." Imitating some famous people such as politicians, athletes, and TV weatherman alongside of making Donald Duck were his trademark to entertain himself and his school friends and irritate his teacher.
Out of school plays and sports competitions he suffered from severe bullying through the entire comprehensive school. The very worst bully being his first teacher who was teaching him for his first six years of the school era. Among many forms of bullying were that he was forced to use right hand in writing instead of left, force-feeding, bullying his hair and constantly being insulted by his teacher. Not having any real opportunities to proceed into acting, Jyrki was focusing all his energy on sports which was also an important way to shine and have some form of therapy in the middle of hellish youth. He was very good at running and skiing. He started lifting weights at the age of 12 and was competing first time in powerlifting at the age of 13. After comprehensive school Jyrki went to high school but dropped out after one year. He didn't get any help with his learning problems, and he wanted to move away and start his own life some elsewhere.
He managed to get into the Kuortane Sports Academy at the age of 17 and got finally rid of terrible fear of speaking in front of audience and found his voice. "That 1992 spring was really the first happy era of my life and the very first time I experienced what good and great teaching and coaching really means. Everybody was so supporting and great. I don't believe I would even be alive today without that spring, it meant and taught me so much." In 1993 Jyrki went to Finnish Defence Forces to do his military service. His military rank is jaeger.
After his military service he was selected to Eastern Finland Sport Institute to study massage therapy in 1994. During the studies he got interested in migraine care development due to his own migraine problem which he hid from everybody.
After graduation he launched his first manual practice and embarked the migraine care development fully. Since 1995 he ran private practices in Finland and also in the United Kingdom.
Thanks to his personal connections gained years ago, he went on working in the war zone in Iraq between 2003-2008 for private sector.
When the global Covid-19 crisis erupted in 2020, Jyrki saw his opportunity to make his long lasting acting and movie maker career a true. He joined one his favorite actor's Vincent Curatola (known from The Sopranos, Law&Order, Patriot Day, Killing Them Softly) acting workshop. Curatola encouraged him to start doing his own projects. Having private entrepreneur all his work career, Jyrki didn't need another push and started to embark the new career.
Out of school plays and sports competitions he suffered from severe bullying through the entire comprehensive school. The very worst bully being his first teacher who was teaching him for his first six years of the school era. Among many forms of bullying were that he was forced to use right hand in writing instead of left, force-feeding, bullying his hair and constantly being insulted by his teacher. Not having any real opportunities to proceed into acting, Jyrki was focusing all his energy on sports which was also an important way to shine and have some form of therapy in the middle of hellish youth. He was very good at running and skiing. He started lifting weights at the age of 12 and was competing first time in powerlifting at the age of 13. After comprehensive school Jyrki went to high school but dropped out after one year. He didn't get any help with his learning problems, and he wanted to move away and start his own life some elsewhere.
He managed to get into the Kuortane Sports Academy at the age of 17 and got finally rid of terrible fear of speaking in front of audience and found his voice. "That 1992 spring was really the first happy era of my life and the very first time I experienced what good and great teaching and coaching really means. Everybody was so supporting and great. I don't believe I would even be alive today without that spring, it meant and taught me so much." In 1993 Jyrki went to Finnish Defence Forces to do his military service. His military rank is jaeger.
After his military service he was selected to Eastern Finland Sport Institute to study massage therapy in 1994. During the studies he got interested in migraine care development due to his own migraine problem which he hid from everybody.
After graduation he launched his first manual practice and embarked the migraine care development fully. Since 1995 he ran private practices in Finland and also in the United Kingdom.
Thanks to his personal connections gained years ago, he went on working in the war zone in Iraq between 2003-2008 for private sector.
When the global Covid-19 crisis erupted in 2020, Jyrki saw his opportunity to make his long lasting acting and movie maker career a true. He joined one his favorite actor's Vincent Curatola (known from The Sopranos, Law&Order, Patriot Day, Killing Them Softly) acting workshop. Curatola encouraged him to start doing his own projects. Having private entrepreneur all his work career, Jyrki didn't need another push and started to embark the new career.
