Peter Franzén
Peter Vilhelm Franzén (born August 14, 1971) is a Finnish actor, author, screenwriter, and director.
As an actor, Franzén has appeared in over 50 films and TV series. For his role in Dog Nail Clipper (2004), Franzén was awarded a Jussi Award for Best Actor as well as earning praise from film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine who called the actor "one of the most talented and versatile thesps in Finland".
In his career he has appeared in Finnish, Estonian, German, English, Swedish, and Hungarian speaking roles. In 2015, Franzén was cast as King Harald Finehair from the fourth season of Vikings. Franzén has also casted in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming The Wheel of Time TV series.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 28.017 |
Birthday | 1971-08-14 |
Place of Birth | Keminmaa, Finland |
Also Known As | Петер Францен, |
1998
Train Birds
5.917/18
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When...
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Train Birds
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...
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Bad Boys: A True Story
2002
Lovers & Leavers
4.667/15
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
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Lovers & Leavers
2003
At Point Blank
4.9/19
A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detecti...
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At Point Blank
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.
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Hellsinki
2000
Badding
5.5/12
The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
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Badding
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...
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
2004
The Threat
5.1/13
A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His...
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The Threat
2016
Beck 31 - Gunvald
5.682/22
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The mu...
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Beck 31 - Gunvald
2001
Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
6.667/15
Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare t...
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Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
2002
Names in Marble
5.917/18
Based on an acclaimed 1935 novel about the War of Liberation (1918-1920) that ensured Estonia's independence, the film tells about a group of young sc...
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Names in Marble
1999
Ambush
5.8/36
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders...
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Ambush
2004
Set Point
3/4
On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turn...
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Set Point
2001
On the Road to Emmaus
6/11
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
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On the Road to Emmaus
2004
Dog Nail Clipper
6.6/14
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside look...
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Dog Nail Clipper
2008
Three Wise Men
5.6/9
Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and som...
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Three Wise Men
2012
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
6.023/22
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor...
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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
2011
Body of Water
5.714/14
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially...
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Body of Water
2012
Road North
6.071/28
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other aga...
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Road North
2012
Purge
6.726/53
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isola...
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Purge
2013
Open Up to Me
5.674/23
At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual en...
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Open Up to Me
1998
A Summer by the River
6.5/14
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
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A Summer by the River
1998
Asphalto
5.3/3
As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service...
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Asphalto
1995
Suolaista ja makeaa
4.3/10
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Suolaista ja makeaa
2007
Red Is the Color of
2.7/3
The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and sp...
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Red Is the Color of
2013
Above Dark Waters
6.115/13
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
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Above Dark Waters
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.
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Heart of a Lion
2015
The Gunman
5.737/928
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering f...
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The Gunman
2015
Johan Falk: The End
8/27
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, m...
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Johan Falk: The End
2015
Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
6.8/28
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who i...
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Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
2015
Homecoming
4.429/7
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to reno...
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Homecoming
2016
The Mine
6.971/17
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finl...
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The Mine
2001
Kites Over Helsinki
4.7/10
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achiev...
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Kites Over Helsinki
2016
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
5.5/2
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also des...
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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2010
Priest of Evil
5.533/30
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague,...
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Priest of Evil
2009
Rally On!
5.192/13
This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now...
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Rally On!
2018
Ashes in the Snow
6.617/111
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiri...
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Ashes in the Snow
1994
Kissan kuolema
5.333/7
In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than...
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Kissan kuolema
2001
Jewel of the Sahara
7/3
Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife
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Jewel of the Sahara
1999
Rikos & rakkaus
3.833/6
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Rikos & rakkaus
2007
The Matriarch
6.357/14
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking wo...
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The Matriarch
2000
Bad Luck Love
5.81/21
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level crimi...
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Bad Luck Love
2007
Cleaner
6.073/796
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban...
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Cleaner
2008
Isabella
0/0
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Isabella
2021
Meander
6.018/399
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands tha...
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Meander
2006
Baba's Cars
4.8/10
Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.
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Baba's Cars
1996
Tie naisen sydämeen
6/2
Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there b...
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Tie naisen sydämeen
2015
Lapland Odyssey 2
5.6/32
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventu...
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Lapland Odyssey 2
2020
Tale of the Sleeping Giant
7.429/7
Tale of the Sleeping Giant is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a...
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Tale of the Sleeping Giant
2010
Princess
5.897/29
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Ps...
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Princess
2006
Mystery of the Wolf
7.2/4
Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her...
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Mystery of the Wolf
1993
Takatöölö Story
2/1
A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.
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Takatöölö Story
2023
Hamsters
2.5/2
A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend, Min...
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Hamsters
2023
Black Lotus
6.492/131
An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.
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Black Lotus
2023
The Abyss
5.8/217
As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground min...
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The Abyss
2023
Boudica
5.8/135
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies...
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Boudica
Alibi
0/0
Pain, not just war, makes strange bedfellows. In bed, APRIL SANCHEZ and JENNA BRYANT hatch a plan to turn the plot of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Trai...
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Alibi
2023
Nightless Night
10/1
Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.
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