Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson earned my lasting admiration with Let the Right One In. That 2008 film reinvented the vampire story as something tender, eerie and almost unbearably human, and it's one of the most atmospheric movies I can think of. Then he proved his range with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a coolly controlled espionage piece that trusts its audience's patience. Two Guldbagge Awards for Best Director tell you the Swedish industry takes him seriously, and so do I. What I value in Alfredson is restraint: he lets silence, mood and texture do the work where lesser directors would over-explain. A genuine craftsman of slow-burn cinema.

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Name (English)

Tomas Alfredson

Name (Japanese)

トーマス・アルフレッドソン

Reading

とーます・あるふれっどそん

Born

April 1, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Lidingö, Stockholm County, Sweden

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film editor / actor / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Guldbagge Award for Best Director
• 2008 Guldbagge Award for Best Director

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas%20Alfredson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457656

Tags

• Stockholm County
• film director
• screenwriter
• film editor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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