Jorma Tommila

Known for ActingBorn 1959-01-01 (age 67)Panelia, Finland

Jorma Tommila (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjo̞rmɑ ˈtomːilɑ]; born 1959) is a Finnish actor. Winner of the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1997, Tommila is best known for playing Aatami Korpi in the film Sisu (2022). Tommila was born in Rauma, Finland and spent his youth in Kiukainen. His father died when Jorma was four years old, after suffering from injuries to his lungs in World War II. Tommila was raised by his mother, and his older sister Kielo Tommila is also an actress. He lives with his family in Vaasa. He is married to actress Ida Helander-Tommila, the sister of director Jalmari Helander. He is the father of Onni Tommila, who is also an actor. Whilst at Helsinki Theatre Academy in 1987, Tommila was one of four founding members of God's Theater, a Finnish theater group that made experimental and radical stage art, their performances including full frontal nudity, the setting off of fire extinguishers, and the performers throwing faeces into the crowd. The four were arrested and fined, and given suspended prison sentences. They were also expelled from the college, the expulsion prompting protests from fellow students. In 1997, Tommila won the Jussi Award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Christmas Party, directed by his God Theatre's fellow founder Jari Halonen. Tommila's character in the film Sisu, filmed in Lapland with a budget of €6 million, has been compared with Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone) in the 1982 film, and with John Wick (played by Keanu Reeves). He has also been described as a “new action cinema icon”. Tommila portrays Aatami Korpi, an ex-commando and gold prospector who strikes gold but has his bounty stolen by Nazi soldiers. Korpi, with courage and "unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds", becomes "a one-man death squad who will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path." For the role Tommila won the award for best actor at the Sitges Film Festival in 2022.Read more

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Iceman

The Fakir

Nurses

Sisu

Kimmo

Sisu: Road to Revenge

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Hamsterit

High Hopes

Joulubileet

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Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods

Man and a Junior

The Life of Aleksis Kivi

Maxmillian Tarzan

Son of Revenge – The Story of Kalevala

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

The Visitor

Vares: Private Eye

Raid

Ukkonen

Scene of the Crime

The Year of the Wolf

Bad Luck Love

Back to the USSR

Big Game

On Thin Ice

Sisters Apart

Priest of Evil

Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma

Lukio

Heroes of the Baltic Sea

The Legacy

Hamlet