Emerging from Östersund in Sweden, his early enthusiasm for ice hockey shifted toward the stage when he entered Ingemar Lind’s Institute for the Performing Arts and subsequently completed studies at the National Swedish School of Acting between 1975 and 1978. After joining Peter Oskarson’s Skånska Teatern troupe, he made his television debut as Puck in a 1980 production of A Midsummer Night’s Drea…