Jasper Paakkonen

At 43 years old, Jasper Paakkonen has this physical status:

Joona Jasper Pääkkönen (born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish film actor and entrepreneur. Halfdan the Black was his international breakthrough in 2015, after his over two-decade work in Finnish cinemas.

Spike Lee's comedy-drama film BlacKlansman (2018) was his next role.

He has been cast in the forthcoming The Dark Tower television series, which is based on Stephen King's books.

Early life

Pääkkönen was born in Helsinki, Finland, and the son of actor Seppo Pääkkönen and Virve Havelin. Antti Pääkkönenen's uncle, who is also an actor, is a prolific voice actor. Pääkkönen, a child, was a theater assistant and attended the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts in Kallio, Finland. During the 1997-98 school year, Pääkkönen spent a year in Maryland as an exchange student at Baltimore's Owings Mills High School.

Personal life

Pääkkönen has been married to Spanish-Filipino model Alexandra Escat since 2017. On Christmas Day 2021, the couple had a daughter.

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Career

Pääkkönen's first film appearance was in The Glory and Misery of Human Life (1988), which was when he was seven years old. In the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002), Saku Salin became well-known as Saku Salin. According to a survey conducted by Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, Pääkkönen is "the most profitable film actor in Finland" for having appeared in numerous box office hits during his career. Many of Pääkkönen's films have ranked at the Finnish box office, including Bad Boys, which is one of the most successful Finnish films at the national box office of all time. Pääkkönen's other commercial and educational accomplishments include Frozen Land (2005), Matti's Heroes (2006), Lapland Odyssey (2010), and Heart of a Lion (2013).

Pääkkönen received the Best Actor Award at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival for his role in Bad Boys. Michael Giltz, a film critic, who called the actor "handsome and convincing" in his role in Lapland Odyssey, has earned international recognition. Pääkkönen's "rising thesp" in his role in Matti, according to film critic Leslie Felperin of Variety. Pääkkönen was the Shooting Star of Finland at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006.

Pääkkönen appeared in the Finnish drama film Heart of a Lion in 2013, earning him his first Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor. Pääkkönen appeared in the fourth season of the History Channel television series Vikings as Halfdan the Black in 2015.

Pääkkönen co-starred in Spike Lee's drama BlacKlansman, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was announced on August 10, 2018. In Lee's 2020 Netflix film Da 5 Bloods, he appeared in Lee's Daggers.

Together with film producer Markus Selin, Pääkkönen founded the Pokerisivut.com poker magazine in 2009. At the London 2010 iGB Affiliate Awards, Pokerisivut.com was named Best Overall Affiliate.

Pääkkönen is a member of Vision Fly Fishing World's crew and has appeared on fly fishingTV shows and DVDs as a celebrity guest on fly fishingTV shows and DVDs. Pääkkönen is also known as the keeper of endangered fish species of Finland (especially salmon). He has also founded and is one of the founders of Superflies.com, which sells a select of flies collected by Pääkkönen and raises funds for endangered native fish species. With MP Antero Vartia, Pääkkönen has also started an entrepreneurship. At the shore of Hernesaari, Helsinki, they constructed a huge sauna and restaurant complex named Löyly, which cost €6 million to build. Pääkkönen, one of the founders of Röykkä Invest Oy, whose name is the former Nummela Sanatorium, which is located in Nurmijärvi's Röykkä village, was purchased for €1.5 million. Pääkkönen has revealed a bid to convert the former sanatorium into a hotel.

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