Jasper Pääkkönen

Jasper Pääkkönen

Born: July 15, 1980
in Helsinki, Finland
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.

Movies for Jasper Pääkkönen...

The Unhanged
Title: The Unhanged
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: Movie
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 sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.
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Title: Operation Omerta
Character: Max Tanner
Released: August 19, 2022
Type: TV
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Attack on Finland
Title: Attack on Finland
Character: Max Tanner
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.
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Da 5 Bloods
Title: Da 5 Bloods
Character: Seppo Havelin
Released: June 12, 2020
Type: Movie
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 treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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BlacKkKlansman
Title: BlacKkKlansman
Character: Felix Kendrickson
Released: August 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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Title: Haapasalon Suomi
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 2018
Type: TV
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Jet Trash
Title: Jet Trash
Character: Mike
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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 beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters.... and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away?
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Vares: The Sheriff
Title: Vares: The Sheriff
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom nobody knows and we do not discuss. Vares drifts dangerously close to the "jury", the secret underworld lord clubs, the members of the human spirit is a cheap commodity. Rummaging through the case Vares get too close to the truth.
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Heart of a Lion
Title: Heart of a Lion
Character: Harri
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
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Title: Vikings
Character: Halfdan the Black
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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Vares: Tango of Darkness
Title: Vares: Tango of Darkness
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
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 away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…
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Vares: Gambling Chip
Title: Vares: Gambling Chip
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
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-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable
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Naked Harbour
Title: Naked Harbour
Character: Anders
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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 week all its characters face something irreversible.
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Vares: Garter Snake
Title: Vares: Garter Snake
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: August 5, 2011
Type: Movie
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 over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
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Vares: The Girls of April
Title: Vares: The Girls of April
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: April 20, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Title: Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Character: Kyypakkaus
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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 investigate the case.
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Lapland Odyssey
Title: Lapland Odyssey
Character: Kapu
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: Movie
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 girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
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Moomins and the Comet Chase
Title: Moomins and the Comet Chase
Character: Muumi (voice)
Released: August 6, 2010
Type: Movie
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 what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.
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Hellsinki
Title: Hellsinki
Character: Korppu
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
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The Subtenant
Title: The Subtenant
Character: Kikke
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
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Moomin and Midsummer Madness
Title: Moomin and Midsummer Madness
Character: Muumipeikko (voice)
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating theater.
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V2: Dead Angel
Title: V2: Dead Angel
Character: Dan 'Dante Hell' Hellman
Released: January 12, 2007
Type: Movie
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 can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Title: Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Character: Matti
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
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Frozen Land
Title: Frozen Land
Character: Niko Smolander
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
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 counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
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Vares: Private Eye
Title: Vares: Private Eye
Character: Jarmo
Released: July 23, 2004
Type: Movie
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
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Addiction
Title: Addiction
Character: Aleksi
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
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Title: Irtiottoja
Character: Johnny
Released: September 29, 2003
Type: TV
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Bad Boys: A True Story
Title: Bad Boys: A True Story
Character: Eero Takkunen
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
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Title: Salatut elämät
Character: Saku Salin
Released: January 25, 1999
Type: TV
Salatut elämät (Secret Lives) is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment block in Helsinki.
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Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Title: Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Character: Arvi Hongisto
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children.
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A Rare Grand Alignment
Title: A Rare Grand Alignment
Character: Kaapo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Directed by Cinqué Lee. Plot currently unknown.