# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-strang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:59.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-strang"
name: "Pekka Strang"
slug: "pekka-strang"
description: "Pekka Kristian Strang is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actor and the artistic director of Lilla Teatern in Helsinki, 2005–2014. He grew up in Vaasa on the Finnish west coast. In 1997 he was admitted to the Theatre Academy of Finland and graduated in 2001. The same year he starred in the movie Drakarna över Helsingfors and in 2004 he had a role in Producing Adults. Strang plays the titular character in the 2017 Dome Karukoski film Tom of Finland. Across three seasons he portrayed Stockholm's police chief Toivonen in Bäckström. Strang also played the main protagonist \"Anlaf\" in the Netflix movie \"The Last Kingdom Seven Kings Must Die\" 2023."
tagline: "Finnish actor and theatre manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Intervista_a_Pekka_Strang_-_32%C2%B0_Lovers_Film_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.671232876712328
  historical:           9.474412000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "pekkastrang"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1032916/"
    handle:    "nm1032916"
sources:
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    title: "Pekka Strang"
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    title: "بيكا سترانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pekka Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Strang"
    title: "Pekka Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Strang"
    title: "Pekka Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پکا استرانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pekka Strang"
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    title: "Pekka Strang"
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    title: "Странг, Пекка"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump