Jonas Grimås
Film director
1958 –
Who is Jonas Grimås?
Jonas Grimås 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 StockholmsKultur Foundation.
Grimås started out working on Swedish soap-operas, but has made a name for himself 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 and Isprinsessan.
Grimås is at present working on a motion picture about the The von Sydow Murders.
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- Born
- Aug 7, 1958
Uppsala - Also known as
- Jonas Grimas
- Jonas Kristofer Ulfson Grimås
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Lived in
- Uppsala
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on July 23, 2013
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