Jasper Pääkkönen
Jasper Pääkkönen (born July 15, 1980) is a Finnish actor and entrepreneur. Pääkkönen became famous in Finland playing Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002) and have since then starred in many #1 Finnish box office hits, including Bad Boys (2003), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006) and Lapland Odyssey (2010).
He made his international breakthrough role in historical drama television series Vikings (2015-2020) as Halfdan the Black. In March 2019, it was reported that Pääkkönen had been attached to Spike Lee's Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods. A week later, it was announced that Pääkkönen had also landed a major role in the upcoming Black Tower series based on the novels by Stephen King, but the series was subsequently cancelled in early 2020.
Known For | Acting |
---|---|
Most Rating | 16.942 |
Birthday | 1980-07-15 |
Place of Birth | Helsinki, Finland |
Also Known As |
2003
Bad Boys: A True Story
5.675/40
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed...
Watch Now
Bad Boys: A True Story
2004
Addiction
3.684/37
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout fo...
Watch Now
Addiction
2009
Hellsinki
6.42/44
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
Watch Now
Hellsinki
2006
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
5.457/35
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his care...
Watch Now
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
2007
V2: Dead Angel
5.6/39
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he...
Watch Now
V2: Dead Angel
2011
Vares: The Kiss of Evil
5.9/23
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investi...
Watch Now
Vares: The Kiss of Evil
2011
Vares: The Girls of April
5.28/25
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Watch Now
Vares: The Girls of April
2004
Vares: Private Eye
6.2/41
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Watch Now
Vares: Private Eye
2005
Frozen Land
6.9/56
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterf...
Watch Now
Frozen Land
2011
Vares: Garter Snake
5.423/26
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life ov...
Watch Now
Vares: Garter Snake
2010
Lapland Odyssey
6.47/83
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girl...
Watch Now
Lapland Odyssey
2012
Vares: Tango of Darkness
5.079/19
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded awa...
Watch Now
Vares: Tango of Darkness
2013
Heart of a Lion
6.61/68
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Watch Now
Heart of a Lion
2015
Vares: The Sheriff
6.094/16
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts,...
Watch Now
Vares: The Sheriff
2016
Jet Trash
5/7
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautif...
Watch Now
Jet Trash
2012
Vares: Gambling Chip
5.1/20
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-w...
Watch Now
Vares: Gambling Chip
2018
BlacKkKlansman
7.512/7389
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operatio...
Watch Now
BlacKkKlansman
2010
Moomins and the Comet Chase
5.5/12
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows wh...
Watch Now
Moomins and the Comet Chase
2020
Da 5 Bloods
6.508/1043
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried tre...
Watch Now
Da 5 Bloods
2012
Naked Harbour
6.037/41
Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter w...
Watch Now
Naked Harbour
2021
Attack on Finland
5.642/60
The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage....
Watch Now
Attack on Finland
2008
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
0/0
After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating theater.
Watch Now
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
1988
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
5.3/3
Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...
Watch Now
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
2008
The Subtenant
4.65/20
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
Watch Now
The Subtenant
2023
The Unhanged
3.15/9
The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekic...
Watch Now
The Unhanged
A Rare Grand Alignment
0/0
Directed by Cinqué Lee. Plot currently unknown.
Watch Now
A Rare Grand Alignment
2024
Vares X
0/0
Vares gets a desperate phone call from his friend Kyypakkaus, who needs rescuing. While Vares rescues his friend, the daughter of a private detective'...
Watch Now