Matti pellonpaa biography
- Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was a Finnish actor and a musician.
- Matti Pellonpää was a Finnish actor and a musician.
- Matti Pellonpää was born on 28 March 1951 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Matti Pellonpää (born March 28, 1951 in Helsinki; died July 13, 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.
He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.
He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.
His private life melded seamlessly with his acting work. A natural bohemian, and a genuine everyman without ego, he frequently used his own life as a basis for his acting, eschewing wardrobe provided, acting in his own clothes.
In 1996 Matti Pellonpää was one of the people commemor
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Matti Pellonpää - the soul of Finnish actors
If you want to discover Finnish actors, I recommend you to watch carefully Aki & Mika Kaurismäki's movies. From my point of view you can pick up some of the best actors and actresses in Finland from these movies. One of my all time favorite is : Matti "Peltsi" Pellonpää. From him a man can't get much more charismatic.
Pellonpää has it all: the voice, acting skills, life experience - which is probably important if you are acting in some of the Kaurismäki's movies, because the movies are about ordinary life. As a person Peltsi must have been very good on making perceptions, because especially Aki Kaurismäki's movies are all about perceptions Aki has made.
Peltsi was not actually only an actor - he did also music, spoke in the radio programs, been scripting and directing short docs and long movies, studying both theatre, film and movies in the best academies/universities in Finland in these
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Matti Pellonpää
ACTOR
1951 - 1995
Matti Pellonpää
Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was a Finnish actor and a musician. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matti Pellonpää has received more than 141,274 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Matti Pellonpää is the 2,016th most popular actor (up from 3,858th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Finland (up from 211th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Actor.
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Among actors, Matti Pellonpää ranks 2,016 out of 13,578. Before him are Bill Cobbs, Shashi Kapoor, Danny Huston, Joe Don Baker, Michel Constantin, and Mélanie Laurent. After him are Ann Miller, Musidora, Bella Darvi, Sung Kang, Jean Smart, and Marlon Jackson.
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