Hannu Kivioja (born 30 June 1963) is a Finnish actor. Kivioja was born in

Ylivieska Ylivieska () is a town and municipality of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland. It has a population of (), and it serves as the administrative centre for Kalajokilaakso and Pyhäjokilaakso, an area with a population of about 90,000 inhabitants ...

. Originally he tried for the

Helsinki Theatre Academy The Theatre Academy ( fi, Teatterikorkeakoulu, sv, Teaterhögskolan) is one of the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki and offers education in theatre and dance. It is Finland's largest education provider in its field and, wit ...

for the first time in 1985, but did not get in at that time. He was discovered by

Rauni Mollberg Rauni Mollberg (April 15, 1929 – October 11, 2007) was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies. In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of '' The Unknown Soldier'' in 1985, 30 years after Edvin L ...

, who gave him the role of Riitaoja in '' The Unknown Soldier'', which was his debut. Thanks to his role, he got into Theater Academy the following year. Kivioja has also acted in, among others, Aleksi Mäkelä's '' Bad Boys'', as well as

Timo Koivusalo Timo Johannes Koivusalo (born 31 October 1963) is a Finnish actor, director, writer, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was '' Rentun Ruusu'', released in 2001. Life and career Koivusalo was born in Pori, and trained as a ...

's ''

Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

'' and ''

The Rose of the Rascal ''Rentun Ruusu'' ( en, The Rose of the Rascal) is a 2001 Finnish biographical film drama directed and written by Timo Koivusalo. The film is based on the life of Antti Yrjö Hammarberg (Irwin Goodman) who is still today a very popular singer i ...

''. His the most significant role Juhani Haavisto in 1993 film ''

Pater Noster The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...

'', directed by

Veikko Aaltonen Veikko Aaltonen (born 1 December 1955 in Sääksmäki, Finland) is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor. Aaltonen began his career in the mid-1970s working as a sound editor on v ...

, for which Kivioja won the

Jussi Award for Best Actor Jussi Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually at the Jussi Awards, the premier film industry event in Finland. The 1st Jussi Awards ceremony was held in 1944, with Joel Rinne winning the first Jussi Award for Best Actor for his perfo ...

Partial filmography

* '' The Unknown Soldier'' (1985) * '' Friends, Comrades'' (1990) * '' Shear Fear'' (1992) * ''

'' (1993) * '' The Swan and the Wanderer'' (1999) * ''

Spy Games ''Spy Games'' (released in some countries as ''History Is Made at Night'') is a 1999 film directed by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi, and starring Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, and Bruno Kirby. Written by Patrick Amos, the film is about a jaded CIA agent a ...

'' (1999) * ''

'' (2001) * '' Bad Boys'' (2003) * ''

'' (2003) * '' Shadow of the Eagle'' (2005) * '' V2: Dead Angel'' (2007) * '' The Border'' (2007) * '' Last Cowboy Standing'' (2009) * '' Sixpack'' (2011) * ''

The Other Side of Hope ''The Other Side of Hope'' ( fi, Toivon tuolla puolen) is a 2017 Finnish comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik. In December 2016, it was selected to pla ...

'' (2017)

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* Living people 1963 births Finnish male film actors People from Ylivieska {{Finland-actor-stub