Antti Luusuaniemi
Antti Luusuaniemi was born in Tammisaari, which is a mainly Swedish speaking city in the south part of Finland. After his graduation from the Theatre Academy of Helsinki in 2004, the Scandinavian actor worked 14 years in the Finnish National Theatre and played demanding roles such as Platonov, Macbeth, and Frankenstein.
He has appeared in many award-winning films and TV-series in Finland and abroad. In 2015 Antti was nominated for the Best Performance in a Drama (A Brat) in Los Angeles New Filmmakers Best of 2014 Award. He worked with Rade Serbedzija (Before the Rain, Snatch, Eyes Wide Shut) in ‘The Liberation of Skopje’ feature film (2016), where he played a Nazi officer Herzog in German. The Oscar-nominated director Selma Vilhunen (Do I Have To Take Care of Everything) chose Antti for a lead role in her feature film ‘Little Wing’, that gain international recognition in TIFF 2016.
He has co-written, developed and starred a comedy TV-series entitled ‘Wingman’ for The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in 2016. The second season of the ‘Wingman’ TV-series is Emmy nominated in the 2019 International Emmy Awards in New York.
Currently, Antti is starring the highly popular Finnish series Syke’s 7th season (Nelonen), and he is the lead actor of the upcoming Finnish feature film (Täydellinen Joulu) at the end of October 2019.
His working languages are Finnish, English, Swedish and German.