Martti Juhani Suosalo (born 19 July 1962) is a Finnish actor and singer. Suosalo was born in

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, and began his career in 1986 with an appearance in a TV series. He began to work as a regular actor on Finnish television but also appeared in several films in the early 1990s such as the 1994 film '' Aapo'' alongside actors such as

Taisto Reimaluoto Taisto Reimaluoto (born 28 September 1961, in Helsinki) is a Finnish actor. Reimaluoto began his career in films and in 1994, he appeared in '' Aapo'' as the lead character. However since 1995 he has become a prolific Finnish television actor ...

Ulla Koivuranta Ulla Koivuranta (born 19 March 1959, in Vaasa, Finland) is a Finnish actress. In 1991 she began work at the Turku Theatre. She played the role of Lempi in the 1994 film '' Aapo''. Filmography *''Hyvän tekijät'' (1997), released as Good Deeds ...

and

Kai Lehtinen Kai Lehtinen (born Kai Antero; 31 July 1958, in Kerava, Finland) is a Finnish actor best known for his work in the Finnish TV-series ''Raid''. Lehtinen originally began as an athlete and competed in the decathlon with a personal best of 6,265 po ...

. While most of his work has been in television in 1999 Suosalo appeared in just about every major film produced in

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that year appearing on the big screen in films such as ''

Rentun Ruusu ''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 ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2006, Suosalo has appeared in the TV series ''Ilonen talo'' and in the movie '' Kalteva torni'', which stars another Suosalo family member, his 7-year-old daughter Siiri Suosalo, in her first major movie role. Suosalo voiced the Finnish janitor Ahti in the 2019 video game ''

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, for which he won the

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. At the 2020

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Martti Suosalo received the Best Actor award for his role in '' Laugh or Die''.

Partial filmography

* ''

The Winter War The Winter War,, sv, Vinterkriget, rus, Зи́мняя война́, r=Zimnyaya voyna. The names Soviet–Finnish War 1939–1940 (russian: link=no, Сове́тско-финская война́ 1939–1940) and Soviet–Finland War 1 ...

'' (''Talvisota'', 1989) * ''

Hobitit ''Hobitit'' (''The Hobbits'') is a nine-part Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries directed by Timo Torikka, originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. It is based on a six-hour play, ''The Lord of the Rings'', put on by the Suomenlin ...

'' (1993) * ''

The Last Wedding ''The Last Wedding'' ( fi, Kivenpyörittäjän kylä) is a 1995 Finnish comedy film directed by Markku Pölönen. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted a ...

'' (1995) * '' The Swan and the Wanderer'' (''Kulkuri ja joutsen'', 1999) * ''

Gold Fever in Lapland ''Lapin kullan kimallus'' (Finnish for ''The glitter of Lappish gold'') is a 1999 Finnish movie, directed by Åke Lindman. The movie is about the Lapland gold rush in the end of the 19th century. It stars Pirkka-Pekka Petelius as Nils Lepistö ...

'' (''Lapin kullan kimallus'', 1999) * ''

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 ...

'' (''Rentun ruusu'', 2001) * '' The Classic'' (''Klassikko'', 2001) * ''

'' (2003) * '' The Leaning Tower'' (''Kalteva torni'', 2006) * ''

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'' (''Musta jää'', 2007) * ''

Ricky Rapper Ricky Rapper ( fi, Risto Räppääjä) is a main character in a series of children's fantasy books and comic strips by Finnish writers Sinikka Nopola and Tiina Nopola. Ricky Rapper is a ten-year-old boy who likes to play drums. He lives in an ...

'' (''Risto Räppääjä'', 2008) * '' Last Cowboy Standing'' (''Skavabölen pojat'', 2009) * ''

Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief ''Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief'' ( fi, Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras) is a 2009 Finnish musical film. The film is based on children's fantasy book series Ricky Rapper of Sinikka Nopola and Tiina Nopola. However, the film is not b ...

'' (''Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras'', 2009) * ''

Ja saapuu oikea yö ''Ja saapuu oikea yö'' (English title: ''Hush'') is a 2012 Finnish thriller film directed by Jyri Kähönen. The story evolves around two young lovers who plan to murder the girl's father. Cast * Jarkko Niemi as Sakari *Jemina Sillanpää as Ve ...

'' (2012) * ''

'' (2019, video game)

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* 1962 births Living people Actors from Oulu BAFTA winners (people) Finnish male actors Finnish male television actors 20th-century Finnish male singers {{Finland-actor-stub