Tomas Alfredson
| Tomas Alfredson | |
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Alfredson at the London Premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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| Born |
Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson 1 April 1965 Lidingö, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Film director, actor |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Parent(s) |
Hans Alfredson Gunilla Alfredson |
| Relatives |
Daniel (brother) Sofi (sister) Mats (brother, died 1967) |
Tomas Alfredson (born Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson; 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director, best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and in 2008 for Let the Right One In.
He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson, and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson.
Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden. Being the son of comedian, writer, and director Hans "Hasse" Alfredson, Tomas was used to being treated differently from an early age. "[A small] number of people were public property, and he was one of them", Alfredson said of his father. Hasse was seldom home, and Tomas was mostly raised by his mother. "But I participated in [Hasse's] film productions every summer, it was probably a way for us to reach each other (...) I thought it was great fun."
Alfredson would often have minor roles in the Hasseåtage series of popular films, that featured the comedy-duo of his father and Tage Danielsson – such as the role of the "Count" in The Apple War (1971), his sole line of dialogue being "Adieu, mon plaisir" ("Goodbye, my pleasure").
Alfredson's career started at Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked as an assistant. He was involved in the creation of the Swedish television channel TV4, where he worked in the entertainment department. One of his successes was the Swedish adaptation of Fort Boyard, "Fångarna på Fortet". Alfredson then moved on to Sveriges Television, creating television series such as Ikas TV-kalas, a children's television show starring Ika Nord, who would later appear in Alfredson's 2008 film Let the Right One In. According to Nord, Alfredson was "only 25, but already extremely knowledgeable". In 1994 Alfredson directed Bert, another tv production based on the Bert diaries, a popular series of teenage novels written in the diary form. A feature film, Bert: The Last Virgin, based on the series was made in 1995, for which Alfredson received a Guldbagge nomination for Best Direction.
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