Elmer Bäck

Hair Color: BrownEye Color: BlueHeight: 184Weight: 84

Education:Master of Arts (Acting), Theatre Academy of Finland 2007

Languages:Fluent in: Swedish, Finnish, English, German, SpanishFamiliar with: French

Biography

Elmer Bäck is a brilliant and multilingual actor. He was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1981. He graduated from The Theatre Academy of Finland in 2007 and thereafter spent 7 years living in Berlin working with the theatre-group Nya Rampen. Together with Nya Rampen, alongside director Markus Öhrn and the Swedish group Institutet, he played some of the world´s most renowned theatre festivals, among them Avignon, Berliner Theatertreffen, Wiener Festwochen and Festival TransAmériques (Montréal). In 2018 he toured the whole of France with the French production “Actrice”, directed by Pascal Rambert.

His big break in film came in 2015 with the title role of Eisenstein in Guanajuato by acclaimed director Peter Greenaway. He has also been working regularly in film and TV in his native Finland, with the TV-series “Jättekiva” and the film “Viimeiset” by director Veiko Öunpuu to name a couple.

Elmer Bäck is fluent in Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish and also works in French.

Curriculum Vitae

Awards

2015
Nominee: Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Ballot Volkswagen Audience Award: 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'

Film

2020
The Last Ones	Lievonen	Veiko Öunpuu	Homeless BOB/Bufo Oy
Sihja	Eerik	Marja Pyykkö	Tuffi Films

2019
Emma Mattress	Don't worry, Sleep happy/LEAD

2015
Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Sergei Eisenstein/LEAD	Peter Greenaway	Submarine/Paloma Negra Films/Fu Works/Potemkino/Edith Films

2011
Where we once walked	Enok Kajander	Peter Lindholm	Helsinki Filmi
En kväll på krogen	Todde	Joakim Groth	FST5 / YLE

Unspecified Year
Tokoi

Film and television

2018
Remember me Please	Jon/LEAD	Heidi Lindén

International TV

2020
Cold Courage	Matti	Agneta Fagerström/Kadir Balci	Luminoir

2012
The Spiral	Oskar Ekblom/co-lead	Hans Herbots	Caviar

International Teater

2018
Actrice	Igor	Pascal Rambert	Structure/Theatre des Bouffes du Nord

2014
Bis zum Tod	Mother	Markus Öhrn	Nya Rampen/Institutet

2012
WLA	Mother	Markus Öhrn	Nya Rampen/Institutet

2010
Conte D´Amour	Mother	Markus Öhrn	Nya Rampen/Institutet

Short films

2020
The Explosion of a Swimming Ring	Jacke	Tommi Seitajoki	TACK Films

2017
Språkfrågan	Lead	Niklas Lindgren	TACK Films
Flores a tus pies	Belial	Juan Andrés Hernández

2010
Pillow Talk	Supporting	Ylva Gustavsson	Anagram

2007
Deadlock	Supporting	Elias Lehtinen, John Åhman

2006
Agonia	Lead	Niklas Kullström

Television

2019
Hillo	Menkkamies		Yellow Film & TV
Rehtori	Markus Sundström	Paula Korva	Yellow Film & Tv
Aktivistit	Konni Zilliacus	Lauri Maijala	Helsinki Filmi

2018-2019
Jättekiva / Idiomatic	Micke/LEAD	Niklas Lindgren	Zodiak Finland

2018
Pirjo	Hans	1 Episode

2010
Avsked	Styvpappa Arne		FremantleMedia Finland / SVT

2008
Magnus Fredrik Skielm-en rövarhistoria	Magnus Fredrik Skielm/LEAD	Sakari Kirjavainen	Moskito television
Lemmenleikit	Harri Raumala/LEAD	Miikko Oikkonen	Blue Media Oy