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Jonas Grimås (b. 1958)

Alias:
Jonas Grimas

Birthplace:
Uppsala, Sweden

Born:
August 17, 1958

Biography from TheMovieDB

Jonas Grimås (born 7 August 1958) is a Swedish film and television director, based in London since 1988. He was educated at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, and then the Royal College of Art in London.  In 1988 he won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film with Artisten. He was also nominated in 1995 for Best Short Film with Marooned. In 2011 he was named "Cultural Personality of the Year" by the Stockholms Kultur Foundation.  Grimås started out working on Swedish soap operas but has made a name for himself by making British crime dramas. He was a regular contributor to ITV’s Heartbeat, having directed 30 episodes. He has also directed episodes of Hamish Macbeth, Silent Witness, and Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind starring Clive Owen. While based in London he has also taken on Swedish projects, directing two episodes of the TV series Wallander, and the adaptations of two Camilla Läckberg novels Predikanten ("The Preacher") and Isprinsessan ("The Ice Princess").

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Film Production

Co-Writer:
2006  Wallander: The Photographer
2006  Wallander: The Trickster

Director:
1987  The Artist
1994  Marooned
2001  Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2006  Wallander: The Photographer
2006  Wallander: The Trickster
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher

Editor:
1987  The Artist
1989  Bakom Sällskapsresan III
1994  Marooned
2001  Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2006  Wallander: The Photographer
2006  Wallander: The Trickster
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher

Executive Producer:
1987  The Artist
1989  Bakom Sällskapsresan III
1994  Marooned
2001  Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2006  Wallander: The Photographer
2006  Wallander: The Trickster
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher
2012  The Farmer's Wife

Writer:
1987  The Artist
1989  Bakom Sällskapsresan III
1994  Marooned
2001  Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2006  Wallander: The Photographer
2006  Wallander: The Trickster
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess
2007  Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher
2012  The Farmer's Wife

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TV Production

Co-Writer:
2005  Wallander

Director:
1992  Heartbeat
1994  Tre kronor
1995  Hamish Macbeth
2005  Wallander

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