Björn Bengtsson

The bear was born in Malmö, sweden and is educated at the ballet academy in Gothenburg, sweden, in 1992 and 1993, and the theatre academy in Gothenburg from 1993 to 1996. He hit the top of Bernard-Marie Koltès monologdrama the ”Night before the forests” at the Helsingborg city theatre, where he played the title role in Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and starred in productions such as Koltès 'West Quay', and Lars Noréns "the Night is today's mother". He has also worked at the Malmö Dramatic Theatre, in the productions of the Paul's "Swedenhielms," and Patrick Hamilton's "Rope," as well as at the royal dramatic theatre, stockholm, in the "Hotel Strindberg" and Selma lagerlof's "Herr Arne's money". He has worked together with Lars Norén, of the productions of chekhov's "the Seagull", "Cool" and ibsen's "Little Eyolf" at the National theatre, where we've seen him with Jon Fosses "Someone is going to come," which was directed by Eirik Stubø, who also directed the Bear, in Koltès "This, and the dogs in the fight" at the national theatre in Oslo, norway. In the Theatre, we've also seen him in Vaclav Havel's ”the Departure” directed by Lennart Hjulström, Alexander Mørk-Eidems the critically-acclaimed production of chekhov's "Three sisters", and Mark Ravenhills Shopping and Fucking”, directed by Hugo Hansén. He has also appeared in TELEVISION productions such as ”Bibliotekstjuven”, "Himmelblå" (Norwegian Norwegian broadcasting corporation (NRK), "Stenhuggaren", ”Call”, "A crack in the crystal", "Labyrinth", "new york", "Torekov", "Leonard", "Fru Marianne", "the Pitch: the Scorpion," and "to Ramona", as well as in films such as ”Psalm 21”, ”Rallybrudar”, "Beck: the real-life situation", "Game", "Winners and losers", "Moreno and the silence", "the Swallow, cat, rose, death," "Hours," and "Hot Dog". The bear is also a writer. The short film "Following" (2002), has been shown at several festivals, and now, he is working with several scripts and ideas.