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Accomplished Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, best known for roles in the original Millennium<\/em> trilogy and more recently the first John Wick<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hollywood came calling and Nyqvist quickly found himself in a variety of evil villain roles, including the abysmal Abduction<\/em><\/a> (with Twilight<\/em> star Taylor Lautner), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol<\/a>, Europa Report<\/a><\/em> and John Wick<\/em><\/a>. He played opposite Pierce Brosnan in I.T.<\/em>, and has no less than two films due to release this year, including submarine disaster film Kursk<\/em>.<\/p>\n Michael Nyqvist was 56 when he passed away on June 27, from lung cancer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Accomplished Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, best known for roles in the original Millennium trilogy and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":46652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",615,410,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",510,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1.jpg",300,200,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Michael_Nyqvist_7_ID-4067_sized_300-dpi-1-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/6a00d8341c93ee53ef0120a5387f38970b.jpg\")
Nyqvist worked primarily in film and television through the early part of his career during the 90’s, including a role in the 1997 television series Beck, as well as films such as Together (2000) and As It Is In Heaven (2004), a film which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Roles in diverse cinema such as The Black Pimpernel<\/em> (2007), Arn: The Knight Templar<\/em> and Downloading Nancy<\/em> saw him garner his mainstream breakout role of Mikael Blomkvist in the three Millennium<\/em> films, comprising The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/a>, The Girl Who Played With Fire<\/a><\/em> and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest<\/em><\/a>, all of which released in 2009.<\/p>\n