Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz (born 7 July 1983) is a Swedish television and film actor. A successful actor in his home country, he is best known internationally for his 2015 American debut role as Tyrell Wellick in the
USA Network
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cyber-thriller ''
Mr. Robot
''Mr. Robot'' is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and dissoci ...
''.
Early life and education
Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz, known as Carl Wallström, was born on 7 July 1983, in
Uddevalla, Sweden.
Wallström began his professional acting career as a teenager, and later decided to study acting. He enrolled in the
University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and graduated in 2008.
Career
Wallström began his career at age fifteen in the Swedish film ''Hela Härligheten.'' He has worked in many Swedish, other Nordic, and German television and film productions since 1998.
In 2008, Wallström had a small role in the wide-release Swedish film ''
Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road'' (''Arn – Riket vid vägens slut''). The following year, he made his debut in the
Johan Falk film franchise in the film ''Johan Falk: GSI – Gruppen för särskilda insatser''; he reprised this role in the following Johan Falk film ''Johan Falk – Vapenbröder'' which was released the same year.
In 2010, Wallström starred opposite
Bill Skarsgård in the Swedish film ''
Simple Simon''. The film was recognised internationally and was shortlisted for that year's
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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. In 2013, he starred in ''
Easy Money III: Life Deluxe'', the third instalment of the very
successful trilogy starring
Joel Kinnaman. He also starred in the Swedish romantic comedy ''Ego'' that year.
In October 2014, it was announced that Wallström had joined the main cast of the US television thriller ''
Mr. Robot
''Mr. Robot'' is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and dissoci ...
''. This was his US television debut and his most prominent international role to date. Wallström was cast as Tyrell Wellick, an ambitious Swedish technology executive for E Corp that works with the main character Elliot, played by
Rami Malek. Wallström won the role of Wellick by submitting three self-tapes to the show.
The first episode of the series premiered on 24 June 2015. Although credited as a main cast member for all four seasons of the show, he does not appear on-screen in about one-third of its episodes.
Wallström's other English-language roles include as Martin in the 2014 Swedish film ''Remake'' (in both Swedish and English), Tomas in the 2015 internationally co-produced English-language television drama ''
100 Code'', a 2017 voice-acting role in an episode of the
Comedy Central
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show ''
Jeff & Some Aliens'', and in supporting roles in the World War II drama ''
Ashes in the Snow'' and independent science-fiction film ''Parallel,'' both released in 2018.
Wallström has narrated many
audiobook
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Spoken audio has been available in sch ...
s in Swedish. As of November 2019, he had narrated 32 books.
Personal life
Wallström married Swedish actress Lisa Linnertorp. They have a son and a daughter,
but divorced in 2021.
Wallström speaks
Swedish and English.
Filmography
Television
Music videos
References
External links
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1983 births
People from Uddevalla
Male actors from Västra Götaland County
Living people
Swedish male film actors
Swedish male television actors
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...