Joakim Nätterqvist


Dag Joakim Tedson Nätterqvist is a Swedish actor, theatre director, musical artist, singer and songwriter and acting coach.

Background

Nätterqvist was born in Gamla Uppsala. He is the son of competitive equestrians Ted and Pia Levin Nätterqvist and grew up on Flammabyggets equestrian farm outside Laholm. Nätterqvis learned to ride at age of four and competed in show jumping as a child and teenager. He is the grandson of Swedish show jumping rider and trainer Dag Nätterqvist.
As a youth, he was more drawn to the world of sports, rather than drama, not only competing in equestrian sports, but playing ice hockey and football as well. After attending several smaller drama institutes, he graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in Stockholm in 2001. He quickly landed a three-year stint with Stockholm City Theatre, where he appeared in, among others, Hamlet and A View from the Bridge. He also had the chance to work with Lars Norén, considered by many to be Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright, at The National Theatre Company in his play Terminal.
He landed his first leading TV role in the 2002 mini-series Stackars Tom.

''Arn: Knight Templar''

Nätterqvist has since then moved on to television and film. He had his big breakthrough in 2007 when he starred in the movie Arn – The Knight Templar, its sequel and the six-part television series. Nätterqvist played the leading role of crusading knight Arn Magnusson. Once the stunt team realized how well Nätterqvist could ride, he ended up performing his own horse stunts. He also benefitted from previous classes in olympic fencing for several past theatre productions, and his general interest in fencing.
Nätterqvist was trained in medieval weapons and longbow archery by Steve Ralphs, costume armourer and archery coach for Game of Thrones, Wrath of the Titans and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood.
This is the most expensive movie project in the history of Swedish film and was shot in English and Swedish, on location in Sweden, Scotland and Morocco with an international cast. The production was headed by Svensk Filmindustri in conjunction with Film i Väst, TV4, Telepool, Danmarks Radio, YLE and TV 2.
The Arn project has been shown on television in many areas of the world. When it was shown in France on France 4, it went up against Showtime's historical drama The Tudors, on NRJ12 in the same time slot, and rated with a higher numbers of viewers.

Recent projects

He has continued work with television, theatre and film. In 2011, he co-starred in the controversial Swedish film With Every Heartbeat/Kiss Me and award-winning music video director Adam Berg's film In.
Americans saw him in the 2011 season finale of USA Network's series Covert Affairs.
Since the fall of 2011 he has been playing fashion designer and love interest Hugo Cronstedt in TV3's popular romantic comedy-drama Elsas Värld. The show came back for a second series in 2013 and consisted of 20 episodes, lasting into the spring of 2014.
In December 2016 the Russian medieval epic Viking premiered. He had spent most of the previous summer shooting on location in Russia. Nätterqvist has a large supporting role as a Viking chieftain and mercenary. The film has taken around $25 million at the box office in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, becoming the top-grossing Russian film to be released in 2016. It was released in western Europe on Amazon Prime and Sky Digital
In July 2017 he will once again participate in the Norwegian outdoor musical :no:Eplene i messehagen|Eplene i messehagen, this time in a different role than what he played in 2014.
In 2016 he joined the 5:th season of popular police procedural :sv:Maria Vern|Maria Wern as Torwalds, a Stockholm police detective and will reprise this role in season 6.
During the fall of 2018, Nätterqvist has been busy shooting the TV-pilot for Skärvor, an outlaw motorcycle club drama-thriller, from producers Susanne Hörnquist & Magnus G Bergström. He is playing the part of Stefan Andreason, president of Rubicon MChttps://deskgram.net/skarvortvserien/
In April 2019 he was working alongside Victor von Schirach and Regina Lund on "Dizdarevic Film's" pilot episode of Vad hände egentligen på...? an anthology series that will retell documented "supernatural" events and strange murders from Stockholms past.
In 2019 he joined 4:the season of popular crime drama Gåsmamman portraying the foster dad Patrik Thorin. The new season will premier on streaming service C More in November, and on TV4 the following year.
Nätterqvist will play Little John in Robin Hood-the Musical World Premier 27 October in Stockholm, to be followed by a Swedish tour 2019/2020, visiting over 20 different cities.

Personal life

He lives in Gamla stan, the medieval section of Stockholm. He has a son with actress Cecilia Häll named Zeth, who recently provided the voice for one of the animated characters in the Swedish release of The Good Dinosaur.
Nätterqvist is bilingual in Swedish and English.
His favorite play is Macbeth.

Other Projects

Voted sexiest man in Sweden 2007 by Plaza Magazine.
Nätterqvist has been very active raising money for UNICEF.
He is one of the founders of Actors Studio Stockholm, a two-year drama academy.
In August 2013, rapper turned celebrity fitness trainer David "D-Flex" Seisay, published his book ‘'Träna med D-flex'’. Nätterqvist contributed to the book, and is featured in text and photos displaying Seisay's fitness instructions.
In 2020 he modelled sunglasses from Swedish design house Akenberg.

Music

He has a Britpop/Indie pop band named Narcissistic Street. They released the CD Soldier in Me in 2008.
The album was recorded before he made his big breakthrough as the medieval knight and had to postpone the album release due to massive Arn project. In December 2011 the band performed at the European premiere of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Nätterqvist sings on two songs on post-punk revivalists The Ohios album Every Sorrow Claims Happiness. One of the tracks, "Let My Legs Walk" is featured in the soundtrack to horror-comedy American Burger.
On 21 December 2017, Nätterqvist released the Christmas-themed single "Jule ljus" on iTunes and Spotify. A second song "En sequined sen" dropped in late April 2018, and more material will be released throughout 2018, with another tune dropped in late April. The new material will steer away from the Britpop/Indie pop sound of Narcissistic Street, and move into the Swedish singer-songwriter/pop rock tradition.

Unscripted television

Nätterqvist has also worked with unscripted television. In 2010 he almost won the Swedish version of Let's Dance for Comic Relief with his interpretation of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.
In spring 2011 he co-hosted the popular TV cooking show Klockan åtta hos stjärnorna. He has also participated in other shows such as Herr och Fru, Doobidoo and Fenomen med Uri Geller.
In late April 2020 Nätterqvist and musical artist and blogger/TV-personality Tilde Fröling were celebrity guest stars on season finale of the Swedish edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to raise money for the Swedish Cancer Foundation.

School

He is the co-founder of Actors Studio Stockholm, a 2-year academic program, that incorporates and the Meisner and Chekhov techniques with Swedish stage traditions. Nätterqvist has also taught drama at several other schools in Sweden, after-school drama coaching for teens, weekend workshops, and with unemployed actors via the Public Employment Service.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998AspiranternaMoses
1998BeckYoung Jon AndersBeck – Öga för öga
1998Waiting for the Tenor/Veranda för en tenorThe Production Assistant
2002SpungAna-Maria's boyfriend4 episodes, Season I
2002Stackars TomTom
2003TalismanenThe ThiefProduced & co-written by Henning Mankell
2004Linné och hans apostlarDaniel Solander
2004:sv:Skeppsholmen |Skeppsholmen
2005KommissionenNews anchor
2008HäxdansenHenke
2008Filmen om ArnArn MagnussonTelevision program
2009Life in Fagervik VillageRasmus SvenskJoined cast with series 2, 11 episodes
2010Arn: The SeriesArn Magnusson6 episodes
2011Covert AffairsLittle Magnus2011 Season Finale, USA Network
2011Nils Holgerssons wunderbare ReiseTore BerggrenMini-series, German TV broadcaster ARD
2011–2012Elsas VärldHugo CronstedSeason 1
2012 Hellenius Hörna The Shining KnightSpecial Guest Star
2013 Fort Boyard
2013Tänk om ryktet är sant Erik90-minute single drama
2013–2014Elsas Värld 2Hugo Cronsted
2014Star Wars RebelsKanan JarrusSwedish voice
2016:sv:Maria Wern|Maria WernDCI TorwaldsSeason 5
2016–2017Star Wars RebelsKanan JarrusSwedish voice
2018:sv:Maria Wern|Maria WernTorwaldsSeason 6
2018Skärvor Stefan AnderssonPilot based on LiseLotte Divelli's novel.
2019GåsmammanPatrik ThorinSeason 4 on TV 4
2020Vad hände egentligen på...? Mr. BartenderSupernatural historical anthology series

Selected Stage Appearances