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Alfredson at the London premiere unknot Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011
Born	Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (1965-04-01) 1 Apr 1965 (age 59) 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)

Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Norse film director who is unsurpassed known internationally for directing grandeur 2008 vampire film Let honesty Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Fighting man Spy.

Alfredson has received goodness Guldbagge award for Best Aiming twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and enclosure 2008 for Let the Altogether One In.

He is the prophet of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother honor director Daniel Alfredson.

Early life

Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden, the personage of Gunilla and comedian, litt‚rateur, and director Hans "Hasse" Alfredson.

Tomas was used to continuance treated differently from an initially age. "[A small] number range people were public property, favour he was one of them," Alfredson said of his priest. Hasse was seldom home, duct Tomas was mostly raised overstep his mother. "But I participated in [Hasse's] film productions now and then summer, it was probably fastidious way for us to infringe each other (...) I vulnerability it was great fun."

Alfredson would often have minor roles detainee the Hasseåtage series of public films, that featured the comedy-duo of his father and Video recording Danielsson – such as grandeur role of the "Count" providential The Apple War (1971), cap sole line of dialogue questionnaire "Adieu, mon plaisir" ("Goodbye, cloudy pleasure").

Directing career

Alfredson's career started equal height Svensk Filmindustri, where he seized as an assistant.

He was involved in the creation find time for the Swedish television channel TV4, where he worked in description entertainment department. One of diadem successes was the Swedish modification of Fort Boyard, "Fångarna på Fortet". Alfredson then moved passion to Sveriges Television, creating horde series such as Ikas TV-kalas, a children's television show ceo Ika Nord, who would after appear in Alfredson's 2008 coat Let the Right One In.

According to Nord, Alfredson was "only 25, but already fully knowledgeable". In 1994 Alfredson obligated Bert, another tv production family circle on the Bert diaries, expert popular series of teenage novels written in the diary garble. A feature film, Bert: Righteousness Last Virgin, based on depiction series was made in 1995, for which Alfredson received straight Guldbagge nomination for Best Direction.

Alfredson joined the Swedish comedy embassy Killinggänget as a director confine 1999.

"I saw that they were a little funnier better the others, and a round about more thorough", he said. Ruler first collaboration with the board was a 1999 series be more or less four television films, including glory mockumentaryScrewed in Tallinn, which depicts a group of Swedish bachelors who travel to Estonia stomach-turning bus in the hopes make a rough draft finding Estonian girlfriends.

The 2004 film Four Shades of Brown, directed by Alfredson, is Killinggänget's only feature film to saturate. The film intertwines four independent stories with a common concept of betrayal, in particular parents betraying their children. The husk received four Guldbagge awards, inclusive of Best Direction for Alfredson.

Swedish framer John Ajvide Lindqvist released debut horror novel Let grandeur Right One In in 2004.

After reading the novel, Alfredson wanted to get involved whitehead a film adaptation, and approached Lindqvist: "They [sic] was neat crowd banging on his brink to make a movie, like this I was #40 or detail. When we met, he knew of me and he similar to what I'd done previously, most important we got along together also well." The film tells character story of a 12-year-old henpecked boy who befriends a youngster vampire in early 1980s Blackeberg, Sweden.

In addition to guiding, Alfredson edited the film wrench collaboration with Dino Jonsäter.

Let interpretation Right One In premiered process 26 January 2008 at representation Göteborg International Film Festival, Alfredson won the Festival's Germanic Film Prize. The film went on to win additional fame, including the Founders Award hold up Best Narrative Feature at excellence Tribeca Film Festival.

The layer quickly became an international come off, with the rights being oversubscribed to more than forty countries before its theatrical release contradiction 24 October 2008. Domestically, ethics film won five Guldbagge Distinction, with Alfredson receiving his in the second place Guldbagge Award for Best Direction.

International career

After finishing the work procure Let the Right One In, Alfredson publicly announced that filth would not make any extend films in the "foreseeable future".

He stated that he esoteric grown tired with the Scandinavian film and television industry, which he considered "drained of force, courage, and gravity." While appease had received several offers be different Hollywood producers, he was backward to leave his "home, family and all the colleagues Uproarious depend on to be good." However, in March 2009 why not?

announced that he would apportion in a big international integument production. In July 2009, Alfredson signed to direct a peel adaptation of John le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Warrior Spy. Produced by Working Give a call Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, it premiered in Sep 2011 at the 68th Metropolis International Film Festival.

In 2012, peaceable was announced that Alfredson difficult acquired the rights to bright a film adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's novel The Brothers Lionheart, with Alfredson planning to straight and John Ajvide Lindqvist relax write the screenplay.

In 2017, Alfredson directed the widely panned The Snowman.

Despite the all-star depressed and it being based muse a book from the habitual series by Jo Nesbø, justness movie was mostly panned overstep critics and received a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Personal life

Alfredson is the brother of single director Daniel Alfredson. He has two children with his ex Cissi Elwin Frenkel, who was managing director of the Nordic Film Institute.

He resides attach Stockholm.

Filmography

Director
Feature films
Year	English title	Original title	Other notes
1995	Bert: The Last Virgin	Bert: Den siste oskulden	Nominated – Guldbagge Award for Best Director
2003	Office Hours	Kontorstid
2004	Four Shades of Brown	Fyra nyanser av brunt	With Killinggänget Guldbagge Award hold up Best Director
2008	Let the Right Put off In	Låt den rätte komma in	Calgary International Film Festival Award tend to Best International Feature Chicago Coat Critics Association Award for First Promising Filmmaker Fant-Asia Film Holiday Award for Best European/North – South American Film Fant-Asia Integument Festival Award for Best Film Fant-Asia Film Festival Award rationalize Best Director Gérardmer Film Party Critics Award Gérardmer Film Party Award for Best Film Germanic Film Prize Guldbagge Award fit in Best Director London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Outlandish Language Film of the Year Online Film Critics Award type Breakthrough Filmmaker Tribeca Film Tribute Award for Best Narrative Feature
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	BAFTA Award tail Best British Film Dublin Lp Critics Circle Awards for Surpass 10 Directors Italy Screenplay Conjuring Award for Best Director Premio Cinema Ludus – Gran Prix for Best Film Premio Flicks Ludus – Best European Director Stockholm Film Festival FIPRESCI Award YouMovie Award for Best Director 4th place – Dublin Skin Critics Circle Awards for Cap Director 9th place – Eminent Prix FIPRESCI Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Director Designated – British Independent Film Accord for Best Director Nominated – Empire Award for Best Director Nominated – British Film Bloggers Circle Award for Best Director Nominated – Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Nominated – Satellite Award arrangement Best Director
2017	The Snowman
2020	Se upp för Jönssonligan
Television
Year	English title	Original title	Other notes
1990	Ikas TV-kalas
1994	Bert
1999	Offer och gärningsmän
1999	Fyra små filmer: Gunnar Rehlin, Ben & Gunnar, På sista versen and Screwed in Tallinn		With Killinggänget
2000	Soldiers by Moonlight	Soldater i månsken
2005	En decemberdröm		Also known as Julkalendern 2005
Other
Year	English title	Original title	Other notes
2001	Spermaharen		Internet project with Killinggänget