Måns Magnus Mårlind (born 29 July 1969) is a

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and screenwriter. After making his feature film debut in 2005, he co-directed the big-budget horror films ''

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'' (2010) and '' Underworld: Awakening'' (2012) and co-created the Danish-Swedish crime thriller '' The Bridge'' (2011–2018).

Career

Mårlind attended film programs at Stockholm University, Sweden and American Film Institute along with , with whom he would start a long-standing directorial partnership. His first work was as a writer for the 1995 Swedish drama series ''

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'', followed by the

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series '' Kenny Starfighter'' (1997). He then worked as an assistant director on (1998), (1999) and (1999).

Work with Björn Stein

In 2005, Mårlind and Björn Stein made their

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debut with the fantasy thriller ''

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'', which was followed by the 2010 supernatural thriller ''

'' (also known as ''6 Souls'' in the United States), starring

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and

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and based on a screenplay by UK screenwriter

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. Mårlind and Stein then co-directed '' Underworld: Awakening'' (2012), which starred

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and grossed over $160 million worldwide, and '' Shed No Tears'' (2013), based on the songs of singer-songwriter Håkan Hellström. The latter was nominated for nine

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(the Swedish equivalent of the

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), including

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and

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. For television, the duo directed all episodes of the Swedish-French police procedural ''Midnight Sun'' (2016) and the

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-distributed historical thriller ''

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'' (2020), also known as ''Shadowplay''. Both series were created and written by Mårlind.

Personal life

He is the father of one child with English actress

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, born in August 2022.

Filmography

Film

Mårlind&Stein, Braddock Carnegie Library, 2008-05-01

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * 1969 births Living people Swedish film directors Swedish screenwriters Swedish male screenwriters Horror film directors 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-writer-stub