Pekka Strang
Acting
Biography
Pekka Strang is a Finnish actor and ex-artistic director of Helsinki City Theatre, where he worked 2005-2014. He is best known for his roles in Kites Over Helsinki (2001), Tom of Finland (2017) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019). Strang graduated from Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2001.
Born: July 23, 1977
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known For
Mister8
There are enough love and surprises in Maria's relationships. And no wonder, because she has a different man for each day of the week. Maria meets Juho and falls in love, but unfortunately there are not eight days in a week.
Kimmo
The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.
Berlin Station
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
Play God
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.
The Summer Book
The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.
Rosvopankki
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine.
Yellow Sulphur Sky
In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades. When Stella's older brother Alex falls victim to a stabbing attack, Frej begins to reminisce about the events of decades past. Frej's memories from the bright 1970s to the present day are filled with love, jealousy, betrayal, life and death.
Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Filmography
as Valtteri
as Erkka
as Mr. Malander
as Agner
as Migrén Junior
as Raimo Korpi
as Mikko
as Christopher Wegelius
as Larsson
as Major Bolin
as Sami
as Fischer
as Karhu #34 Airport
as Alex Rabell
as Henrik Adlerstierna
as Self - Guest
as Juho
as Narrator (Voice)
as Toivonen
as Juha
as Anton
as Waldemar Tunzelman
as Harri Rinne
as Tobias
as Jani Gustafsson
as Jonne
as Tuomas
as Johannes
as Sorkkarauta-Salonen
as Touko Laaksonen / Tom of Finland
as Cedrik
as Vilja's father
as Director
as Anders
as Lääkäri
as Lauri
as Himself
as Self
as Dåhli-Johan
as kylmäkalle
as Miro
as Heikki Aho
as Dani Bexar