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SVEN WOLLTER (King Hrothgar) is one of Sweden’s most revered actors and has been in constant demand for stage and screen roles during a career that has spanned over thirty five years. On stage Wollter recently played the role of Marc in "Art" by Yasmina Reza, (originally played on Broadway by Alan Alda) and in "Änglagård" (Colin Nutley’s "House of Angels") and its sequel "Änglagård, den andra sommaren" ("House of Angels: The Second Summer"). He also starred in "Ögat," and in the title role as Alfred Nobel in "Alfred," which was directed by Vilgot Sjöman with whom Wollter made his screen debut in "I am Curious, Yellow" in 1967. Amongst more than 30 feature film credits, he has had a leading role in Andrej Tarkovskij’s "The Sacrifice," an award-winner at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. He also starred in two of Bo Widerberg’s acclaimed thrillers, "The Man on the Roof" and "The Man From Mallorca." He is also the recipient of the Swedish equivalent of the Oscar, the Guldbaggen, for Best Leading Role and has enjoyed performing in films and television series in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany. Wollter has secured a place in the heart of the Swedish television audience for his starring roles in such popular series as "Sally," which was nominated for Best Sitcom at this year’s Montreaux TV Festival, "Hemsöborna" ("The People of Hemsö"), and "Raskens," which still holds the record as the most popular drama series in that country. The latter series began in 1975 and was based on a novel by Wilhelm Moberg, who also wrote The Immigrants, a book adapted for the feature starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. Amongst more than three dozen other telefilms for Swedish television, Wollter has also starred in the Emmy Award winning "The Tattooed Widow" (Best Foreign Film) by Lars Molin, an acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ "The Glass Menagerie." He recently completed filming the Swedish TV-thriller "The Net" in which he plays the leading role. Performing on stage in his native Sweden and throughout Europe and Great Britain, Wollter has played the lead in numerous classic and contemporary dramas. He has starred in the title role in "Macbeth" as well as in "Cyrano de Bergerac," which he performed for a year-long run at Stockholm’s City Theatre. His starring performance in the title role of "Gustavus III" was highly praised during tours of the play to Great Britain and Poland. He has played leading roles in plays by Shakespeare, Pinter, Gorki, Dario Fo, Molière, Aristophanes, Brecht, Chekhov, and several plays by his countrymen, Lars Forssell and August Strindberg, and other roles that the Swedish audience remembers including Galileo in "Galilei" by Brecht and Josef K in "The Process" by Kafka. He got his first professional engagement in 1961 at the Norrköping Municipal Theatre. In 1965, he starred in his breakthrough role in Neil Simon’s "Barefoot in the Park" which had a run of 352 performances in Stockholm. He has been a member of the ensemble of the Gothenburg Municipal Theatre, and, more recently, part of the ensemble of the People’s Theatre of Gävle and the People’s theatre of Gävle and the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Wollter was born in 1934 in Gothenburg, Sweden. During his early school years, he devoted much of his time to amateur theater productions. He was accepted to the Drama School of Gothenburg at age 19. After his military service, he supported himself in a variety of jobs apart from his love of drama, and he became more politically active as well. In 1994, Wollter published his autobiography, entitled Backlights. He also enjoys sailing and owns his own 38-foot yacht.
