Martin Wallström

Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz (born 7 July 1983) is a Swedish television and film actor. A successful actor in his home country, he is best known internationally for his 2015 American debut role as Tyrell Wellick in the USA Network cyber-thriller Mr. Robot.

Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz, known as Carl Wallström, was born on 7 July 1983, in Uddevalla, Sweden.^[1]

Wallström began his professional acting career as a teenager, and later decided to study acting. He enrolled in the University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and graduated in 2008.^[2][3]

Wallström began his career at age fifteen in the Swedish film Hela Härligheten.^{[citation needed]} He has worked in many Swedish, other Nordic, and German television and film productions since 1998.^[4]

In 2008, Wallström had a small role in the wide-release Swedish film Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road (Arn - Riket vid vägens slut). The following year, he made his debut in the Johan Falk film franchise in the film Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser; he reprised this role in the following Johan Falk film Johan Falk - Vapenbröder which was released the same year.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Wallström starred opposite Bill Skarsgård in the Swedish film Simple Simon. The film was recognised internationally and was shortlisted for that year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[5] In 2013, he starred in Easy Money III: Life Deluxe, the third instalment of the very successful trilogy starring Joel Kinnaman. He also starred in the Swedish romantic comedy Ego that year.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2014, it was announced that Wallström had joined the main cast of the US television thriller Mr. Robot.^[6] This was his US television debut and his most prominent international role to date. Wallström was cast as Tyrell Wellick, an ambitious Swedish technology executive for E Corp that works with the main character Elliot, played by Rami Malek. Wallström won the role of Wellick by submitting three self-tapes to the show.^[4][7][8] The first episode of the series premiered on 24 June 2015. Although credited as a main cast member for all four seasons of the show, he does not appear on-screen in about one-third of its episodes.^{[citation needed]}

Wallström's other English-language roles include as Martin in the 2014 Swedish film Remake (in both Swedish and English), Tomas in the 2015 internationally co-produced English-language television drama 100 Code, a 2017 voice-acting role in an episode of the Comedy Central show Jeff & Some Aliens, and in supporting roles in the World War II drama Ashes in the Snow and independent science-fiction film Parallel, both released in 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Wallström has narrated many audiobooks in Swedish. As of November 2019, he had narrated 32 books.^[9]

Wallström married Swedish actress Lisa Linnertorp. They have a son and a daughter,^[3] but divorced in 2021.^[10]

Wallström speaks Swedish and English.^[11]

• Martin Wallström at IMDb