He started acting school in Malm? and went from there to the Sk?nska Teatern in Landskrona, performing in plays by Shakespeare or Brecht. He made a breakthrough as Puck in William Shakespeare\'s \'A Midsummer\'s Night Dream\'. He also met his wife Birgitta there. The 1990s meant a lot of work in front of the camera, playing a string of policemen, most notably Kurt Wallander from Henning Mankell\'s crime novels.