Paul Johansson - American actor, son of the legendary athlete Earl Johansson

Paul Johansson - American actor, screenwriter,producer. Born in 1964, January 26th. He is the son of legendary hockey player Earl Johnson, who changed his last name to Johansson to confirm his Swedish background. The replacement was successful, and Erl’s Swedish origins were no longer in doubt. And the son, apart from fluency in Swedish, is fluent in French.

Cinema and sport

Paul Johansson was born in the USA, howevergrew up in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Engaged in athleticism, like his father, became a player in the NHL. He brought to the first place among the colleges the hockey team of his university. Then he decided to try his hand at basketball. He played for the Canadian national team for two years, in 1986 in China and Korea, and devoted the whole of 1987 to the national teams of Israel and Greece.

Nevertheless, at some point, Paul Johansson suddenly decides to change his rather bright sports career to the dazzling lights of Hollywood.

The first role went to a novice actor inThe popular TV series "Santa Barbara", this happened in 1984. The debut was successful, soon Paul Johansson appeared in other TV shows, such as "Beverly Hills, 90210", "Parker Levise can not stay" and others.

Being a staunch bachelor, the actor could spend all his time in California, in Venice, at one of the studios of Wilmington, in the state of North Carolina.

The first major role

Once Paul was lucky, he got the lead role inaction movie "Midnight Witness" directed by Peter Foldy. Then in 1997, Paul Johansson, whose films were becoming more prominent, played "She's Beautiful" in the melodrama of Nick Kasavetis, and the following year, he successfully played a role in the detective story Carnival of Souls Ian Kessner and Adam Grossman.

В 2000-м актер блестяще исполнил роль солдата Wes in Matthews's western called Angels in Armor. Then the director Paul Matthews invited Johansson to his next project - the action movie "Immortal Warriors", where he played the main character.

A separate story in the career of Paul can be considered the film "Alpha Dog", where he plays the episodes with Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis.

In 2002, the actor played a fairly large role.in the Canadian-American drama directed by Anne Wheeler entitled "On the verge of madness." In the same period, Paul took part in Shiah Dominic’s thriller Darkness Comes. And then the actor starred in the action movie "The Boondock Saints".

In 1998, Johansson made his directorial debut.It was the short film "Conversations in Limbo", for which Paul personally wrote the script, and for the main roles he invited Troy Duffy and Nick Cassavetes. And then Paul Johansson took an active part in the creation of the multi-part "One Tree Hill", acting as a director.

Personal life

The private life of an actor is no differentattractive to reporters, he still has not created a family, he has no children. The entire interest of the journalistic fraternity was long maintained by a fictitious story about some mythic rape, or harassment of a young journalist who received an editorial task to interview Paul Johansson. And that he allegedly maliciously used scabrousness like "I can direct my ball in such a way that it will go down your throat" ... The stretch is more than obvious - the sensation did not work.

The rest of the personal life of the actor is closely related tosports, meetings on the field, games, competitions. Thus, Paul Johansson, whose personal life is serene enough, cannot rely on sensational revelations. The actor continues to live in peace, is removed in the next film and plays football.

Paul Johansson: Filmography

Scenarios:

• Conversations in Limbo (1998);
• "The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie" (2004).

Directing:

• "Atlas Shrugged";
• "The Incredible Story of Mrs. Ritchie";
• "One tree's hill";
• "Conversations in Limbo".

Role performer

As an actor, the hero of the article appeared in such films as:

• "Dear Eleanor";
• "Love again";
• "The beauty and the Beast";
• "Atlas Shrugged";
• "All Saints' Day";
• "Think like a criminal";
• "Theory of seduction";
• "Immortal Warriors";
• "Sex and the City";
• "The Incredible Story of Mrs. Ritchie";
• "One tree's hill";
• "The darkness descends";
• "Angels in armor";
• "On the verge of madness";
• "The Last Dance";
• East Park;
• "Island of Hope";
• "Wishmaster";
• "Da Vinci leads the investigation";
• "First Wave";
• "Carnival of Souls";
• "Last Conflict";
• "Dead Man's Pistol";
• "She is beautiful";
• "Thermal killer";
• "Lonely dove";
• "Drew Kerry Show";
• "Justice Burke";
• "Party in Beverly Hills";
• "Curfew";
• "They came from space";
• "Parker Lewis is not lost";
• "Girls from the support team";
• "Bathing suit".

Currently, Paul Johansson is working immediately onin several directions, a series of dramatic scenarios awaiting their turn. Removed the actor reluctantly, prefers to act as a director. Some film projects also need quality production, and Johansson would like to try his hand at this difficult task.