David Dencik is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 actor.

After having had minor roles in different films, David Dencik became an established actor in Sweden for his role as the killer John Ausonius

John Ausonius

John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius , known in the media as Lasermannen is a Swedish convicted murderer, bank robber, and attempted serial killer. From August 1991 to January 1992 he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring...

 in the three-part TV mini-series Lasermannen

Lasermannen (TV series)

Lasermannen was a Swedish television series produced by SVT Drama, based on the bestselling book Lasermannen - en berättelse om Sverige by Gellert Tamas, which is based on the Lasermannen events.-Cast:*David Dencik - John Ausonius...

in 2005. He also occasionally works and lives in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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In 2006 he starred in the comedy Everything About My Bush (Swedish title: Allt om min buske). In 2007 he appeared in the Danish feature film Daisy Diamond directed by Simon Staho

Simon Staho

Danish film director Simon Staho has worked with a number of renowned Swedish actors, including Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Erland Josephson, Lena Endre, Lena Olin, Pernilla August, Michael Nyqvist, and Maria Bonnevie...

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He portrayed Fred Åkerström

Fred Åkerström

Fred Åkerström was a Swedish folk guitarist and singer particularly noted for his interpretations of Bellman's music, and his own work of the typically Swedish song segment named visa. These songs, visor, are traditionally very narrative and the performance is "acted" to some degree. The singer is...

 in the biographical film Cornelis

Cornelis (film)

Cornelis is a 2010 Swedish biographical drama film directed by Amir Chamdin, about the life of the musician Cornelis Vreeswijk.Vreeswijk is portrayed by Hans Erik Dyvik Husby, also known as Hank Von Helvete, lead singer in the now disbanded Norwegian rock band Turbonegro...

, starring Hank Von Helvete

Hank Von Helvete

Hans Erik Dyvik Husby , also known as Hank von Helvete, Hertugen and Hærtis, most famous for being the former lead vocalist of the Norwegian death-punk band Turbonegro. While not explicitly addressed to date, the name Helvete was adopted due to its meaning "hell" or "a place of suffering" in...

 as Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk , was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands.He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve. He was educated as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist, but became increasingly involved in music, performing at...

. More recently, he has been cast in the Hollywood-adaption of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an upcoming English-language drama thriller film that is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. The upcoming film is written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David...

. He also played Toby Esterhase

Toby Esterhase

Toby Esterhase is a fictional character in John le Carré's George Smiley spy novels including Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People, as well as some of the stories in The Secret Pilgrim....

 in the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (film)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 English-language espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson, from a screenplay written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan based on the 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré...

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Films

• Lasermannen
  Lasermannen (TV series)
  Lasermannen was a Swedish television series produced by SVT Drama, based on the bestselling book Lasermannen - en berättelse om Sverige by Gellert Tamas, which is based on the Lasermannen events.-Cast:*David Dencik - John Ausonius...
  
  
• Everything About My Bush
• Daisy Diamond
• Not Like Others
  Not Like Others
  Not Like Others is a 2009 Swedish vampire drama film written and directed by Peter Pontikis. It tells the story of two vampire sisters trying to escape a bikergang. Also, one of them wants to leave her life as a vampire and try to pass off as an ordinary woman with her human boyfriend.-Plot:Two...
  
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (film)
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 English-language espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson, from a screenplay written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan based on the 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré...
  
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an upcoming English-language drama thriller film that is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. The upcoming film is written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David...
  
  

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