Joel Boris Spira is a Swedish film

Film

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, television

Television

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 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actor

Actor

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Personal

While studying biology

Biology

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 at the University of Stockholm Spira decided to give acting a chance. After just spending one semester at Spegelteatern in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 he applied to the well respected Malmö Theatre Academy where he got immediately accepted. He graduated in 2007.

Theatre

Spira has since graduating from Malmö Theatre Academy appeared in several plays. He played Mowgli

Mowgli

Mowgli is a fictional character from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , which also featured stories about other...

 in Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

s The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six...

 at Länsteatern in Västerås

Västerås

Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...

, Sweden

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. He later appeared in Lejonets unge at Länsteaten in Örebro

Örebro

-Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....

. He is since 2009 part of the cast of The Brothers Lionheart

The Brothers Lionheart

The Brothers Lionheart is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the fall of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny, betrayal and rebellion are some...

 at Stockholms Stadsteater where he plays the secondary lead

Supporting actor

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 character Jonathan.

Film

Spira made his movie debut in the 2009 short film Travemünde Trelleborg. His first appearance in a feature film was in the 2010 movie Snabba cash

Snabba cash

Snabba cash or Easy money is a Stockholm noir novel from 2006 by Jens Lapidus. It has been a success in term of sales, and the paperback was the fourth best seller of Swedish novels in 2007...

 (English translation Easy Money) by Swedish director Daniél Espinosa

Daniel Espinosa

Jorge Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish film director from Trångsund, Stockholm. He attended the National Film School of Denmark and graduated in 2001. His third feature film, Easy Money, was the Swedish film with most admissions in Sweden in 2010.-Filmography: I Country of the majority production...

. A movie based on the book Snabba cash

Snabba cash

Snabba cash or Easy money is a Stockholm noir novel from 2006 by Jens Lapidus. It has been a success in term of sales, and the paperback was the fourth best seller of Swedish novels in 2007...

 by the author Jens Lapidus

Jens Lapidus

Jens Lapidus is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author, who made his writing debut in August 2006 with Snabba Cash, an account of the Stockholm underworld, and the first of The Stockholm Noir Trilogy. Two years later the second installment, Aldrig Fucka Upp was published by Wahlström &...

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Television

Spira appeared in the SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

 produced Children's television series Barda in 2007.

External links

• Joel Spiras official website (in Swedish)
• Snabba Cash on IMDB