Tapani Kalliomäki is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 stage

Stage (theatre)

In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...

 and film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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Kalliomäki graduated from Finnish Helsinki theatre academy in 1997. His teachers in the academy were for example Kari Heiskanen, Kari Väänänen

Kari Väänänen

Kari Väänänen is a Finnish actor. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki; and belongs to the list of his"trusted" stable of actors....

 and Vesa Vierikko

Vesa Vierikko

Vesa Tapio Vierikko is a Finnish actor.Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He starred in the 2003 film Sibelius working with Finnish director Timo Koivusalo and actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen and Seela Sella and Miina...

. Kalliomäki began his career in theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 in the late 1980s as a stage actor. Entering Finnish film in 1995 he has worked with director Timo Koivusalo

Timo Koivusalo

Timo Johannes Koivusalo is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was Työnnän syvälle kammioon, which debuted in the movie theaters in 2001....

 on several occasions appearing in the 2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 film Sibelius

Sibelius (film)

Sibelius is a 2003 Finnish film biography of Jean Sibelius directed and written by Timo Koivusalo. It is the first full-length feature film about the famous composer.-Cast:*Martti Suosalo as Jean Sibelius*Heikki Nousiainen as Ben Haenni...

alongside actors such as Martti Suosalo

Martti Suosalo

Martti Juhani Suosalo is a Finnish actor and singer.Suosalo began his career in 1986 appearing on a mini TV series...

, Heikki Nousiainen

Heikki Nousiainen

Heikki Nousiainen is a Finnish film actor.Nousiainen entered film in 1971 as both a director and actor in Saatanan radikaalit and has made over 40 Finnish film and TV appearances to date...

, Seela Sella

Seela Sella

Seela Maini Marjatta Sella is a Finnish film actress. She was born in Tampere, Finland.During her career, which has spanned more than 40 years to date, Seela Sella has had roles in productions at the Finnish National Theatre, the TTT-Theatre, the Tampere Comedy Theatre, etc and has made almost 35...

, Miina Turunen

Miina Turunen

Miina Turunen is a Finnish actress.Tururen began acting in 1996 starring in the film Sirpaleita and starred in the 2003 film Sibelius working with Finnish director Timo Koivusalo and actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen and Seela Sella.-Filmography:*NDA - Salassapitosopimus .......

, Vesa Vierikko, Raimo Grönberg

Raimo Grönberg

Raimo Grönberg is a Finnish actor whose career has mainly based on television.Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s appearin in a number of TV series...

 and Jarmo Mäkinen

Jarmo Mäkinen

Jarmo Mäkinen is a Finnish actor.Mäkinen began acting in 1989 on television working consistently throughout the 1990s appearing in several films and TV series mostly notably in Vita lögner which he starred in 27 episodes in 1999...

. Then in 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 he worked with Timo Koivusalo and Martti Suosalo

Martti Suosalo

Martti Juhani Suosalo is a Finnish actor and singer.Suosalo began his career in 1986 appearing on a mini TV series...

 again in the film of that year in Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa

Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa

Shadow of the Two-headed Eagle is a 2005 Finnish film directed and written by Timo Koivusalo.-Plot:The film is about an early twentieth century Finnish poet under the Russian regime.-Cast:...

. In 2007, Kalliomäki is seen in Åke Lindman

Åke Lindman

Åke Leonard Lindman , born Åke Leonard Järvinen, was a Finnish director and actor.In his youth Lindman was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. He represented the football club HIFK in the Finnish league. In the 1960s, the British...

's film Tali-Ihantala as Majuri Suurkari and on television in production Puolustuksen puheenvuoro playing the role of lawyer Silvasti. Kalliomäki has worked for example in Teatteri Pieni Suomi, Radioteatteri, Helsinki city theatre, KOM-theatre, Kallio-theatre and now he is actor of Lahti city theatre. Kalliomäki will play the role of Janne Kivivuori in the upcoming movies Täällä Pohjantähden alla (2009) and Täällä Pohjantähden alla II (2010).

On television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 he has been in about twenty TV films and played the lead role in the TV series Hovimäki.

Filmography

• Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (1995)
• Sirpaleita (short 1996)
• Hovimäki (TV series 1999-2003)
• Sibelius (2003)
• Seitsemän veljestä (TV movie 2004)
• The Long Gone (short 2004)
• Shadow of the Eagle (2005)
• Tali-Ihantala 1944
  Tali-Ihantala 1944
  Tali-Ihantala 1944 is a 2007 Finnish war film directed by Åke Lindman and Sakari Kirjavainen, based on the Battle of Tali-Ihantala. Filming began during the summer of 2006 and was screened in autumn 2007. Åke Lindman himself wanted the film to be as real as possible, and only include facts...
  
  (2007)
• Puolustuksen puheenvuoro (TV series 2009)
• Under the North Star
  Under the North Star
  Under the North Star is a novel trilogy by Finnish author Väinö Linna published 1959–1962. It follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880 to about 1950 while simultaneously describing the effects of the important ideals and events of that period have on ordinary people...
  
  (2009)
• Täällä Pohjantähden alla II (2010)

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