Lars "Lasse" Erik Oliver Lindroth ( born Cambiz Fachericia; 9 November 1972 – 11 July 1999) was an Iranian-Swedish

comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

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and

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. Lindroth was born in

Teheran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populo ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, as Cambiz Fachericia, and was adopted by a Swedish family from

Täby Täby () was previously a trimunicipal locality, with 66,292 inhabitants in 2013. However, as from 2016, Statistics Sweden has amalgamated this locality with the Stockholm urban area. It is the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Swed ...

around the age of six months. He became popular in Sweden as a comedian in the mid-1990s, under the stage name ''Ali Hussein''. From there he went on to also write books and play parts in films and on TV. For example, he played in the TV series ''Sjukan'', which was a Swedish version of British sitcom '' Only When I Laugh''. His Iranian origin allowed him to play on the prejudices about immigrants from different countries, while also making jokes about racists of all sorts. This made him unpopular in the nationalist movements. He died in an automobile accident on E6 near

Uddevalla Uddevalla (old no, Oddevold) is a town and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. In 2015, it had a population of 34 781. It is located at a bay of the south-eastern part of Skagerrak. The beaches of Uddevalla are ...

at 26 years of age.

Filmography

*1995 - '' Sjukan'' (television) *

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- '' Tratten och Finkel'' (television) *1997 - ''

Sanning eller konsekvens ''Sanning eller konsekvens'' is a 1997 Swedish film directed by Christina Olofson. Plot Nora is in sixth grade in the Högalid School (Högalidsskolan) in Stockholm. She is torn between spending time with the cool girls Fanny and Sabina and the b ...

'' *1997 - '' Beck – Pensionat Pärlan'' *1997 - '' Beck – Spår i mörker'' *1998 - '' Beck – Öga för öga'' *1998 - '' Beck – The Money Man''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindroth, Lasse 1972 births 1999 deaths Swedish people of Iranian descent Swedish male comedians Road incident deaths in Sweden Entertainers from Tehran 20th-century Swedish comedians