Kjell Nilsson was born in Gothenberg, Sweden, and came to Australia in
1980 as a trainer of Swedish athletes, preparing for the Moscow
Olympics, being a former Olympic class weight lifter himself. While in
Australia, he met Australian actress
Kate Ferguson, and they were
married in Sweden later that year. She persuaded him to return to
Australia, and look for work in Australian films. He landed his first
role as a pirate in "The Pirate Movie", and you can see Kjell
"unmasked" quite clearly in a few scenes from that film. His next role
was that of The Humungus in Mad Max 2.
