Biografie

Visited the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, together with soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic for an organization supporting the children's rights.

In his youth, he liked playing soccer and boxing. Although hanging around with his "tough" mates, he later applied to the Academy of Ballet in 1983.

Persbrandt filmed 259 days in 1997, something (for the obvious reasons) he's never going to do again, he says.

Visited former child soldiers in Liberia for a Swedish UNICEF campaign against the exploitation of children (2004).

Being the subject of much gossip in the Swedish press, he decided to sue a Swedish tabloid (2006).