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Not to be confused with Per Mattson.

Per Berndt Roland Mattsson (22 July 1948 – 11 September 2025) was a Swedish actor.

Mattsson in 2014

Life and career

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Mattsson was born in Västerås on 22 July 1948. He began working in amateur theatre in Västerås and was educated from 1967 to 1970 at the Scenskolan in Stockholm.[1] He then made a stopover at the Stockholm City Theatre for a year before he was employed by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1972, to which he remained largely loyal, except for the years 1977–1979 when he played Mackie the Knife in The Threepenny Opera and the musical Cabaret at Helsingborg City Theatre. Some of his notable roles include Leander in The Rushed, the robber Jesper in People and Robbers in Kamomilla City, David in The Night Is the Mother of the Day, Albany in King Lear, Jason in Medea, the lawyer in A Doll's House and the pastor in The Father, and he worked with directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Alf Sjöberg, and Staffan Valdemar Holm. He appeared in film and TV productions such as Janne Halldoff's The Wedding, Arne Mattsson's Dirty Fingers, Hans Alfredson's The Time of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander, amongst others.[2]

He was awarded Svenska Dagbladet's Thalia Prize in 1983 for his role in The Night is the Mother of the Day. In 2014, he was awarded the Gunn Wållgren Scholarship.[3] In 2015, he became this year's O'Neill Award winner.[4]

Mattsson died on 11 September 2025, at the age of 77.[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ "Rollboken". dramaten.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Per Mattsson - SFdb" (in Swedish). 22 July 1948. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Per Mattsson och Marianne Hellgren Staykov tilldelas Gunn Wållgren-stipendiet 2014". News Powered by Cision (in Swedish). 13 November 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  4. ^ "2015 års O'Neill-pris går till Per Mattsson - Dramaten". www.dramaten.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  5. ^ https://www.ratsit.se/19480722-Per_Berndt_Roland_Mattsson_Stockholm/VtoDzce7tlo2_DN_yIbqw05_uJqjez_uuUTpaj_HEBU
  6. ^ Nyheter, S. V. T. (12 September 2025). "Skådespelaren Per Mattsson död". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 September 2025.
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