For television viewers, Jasper Pääkkönen is a known actor known from the sofa rather than from the multiplex. The series that matters most on the record is 'Vikings', with he as Halfdan the Black. 'BlacKkKlansman' is another credit on the record. He was working before his twenties. His record holds 30 film and television credits.
For television viewers, Jasper Pääkkönen is a known actor known from the sofa rather than from the multiplex. The series that matters most on the record is 'Vikings', with he as Halfdan the Black. 'BlacKkKlansman' is another credit on the record. He was working before his twenties. His record holds 30 film and television credits.
Jasper Pääkkönen (born July 15, 1980) is a Finnish actor and entrepreneur. Pääkkönen became famous in Finland playing Saku Salin in the Finnish television soap opera Salatut elämät (1999–2002) and have since then starred in many #1 Finnish box office hits, including Bad Boys (2003), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006) and Lapland Odyssey (2010).
He made his international breakthrough role in historical drama television series Vikings (2015-2020) as Halfdan the Black. In March 2019, it was reported that Pääkkönen had been attached to Spike Lee's Netflix original film Da 5 Bloods. A week later, it was announced that Pääkkönen had also landed a major role in the upcoming Black Tower series based on the novels by Stephen King, but the series was subsequently cancelled in early 2020.