Mikael Persbrandt plays shape-shifter Beorn in the last two Hobbit movies. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, he helps Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarfs hide from orcs, and he can also transform ...

Swedish website SVD got the chance to do an exclusive interview with Mikael Persbrandt who will be playing the role of Beorn in the upcoming Hobbit movie. He discuses how he was a Tolkien fan ...

One of the stars of last year's smash hit movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has been jailed for five months for buying 12 grams of cocaine. Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt played shape ...

J.R.R. Tolkien The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continues the adventure of the ...

Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt, who played shape-shifting monster Beorn in last year’s hit movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, has been sentenced to five months in jail for buying 12 ...

In any event, word has come today that Hobbit star Mikael Persbrandt has signed on to play Detective Linna in Lasse Hallstrom’s big screen adaptation of the Lars Kepler novel The Hypnotist.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ... encountering a skin-changer named Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), battling giant spiders, and visiting Laketown (whose inhabitants include Bard the Bowman ...

Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt, star of the Oscar-winning film "In a Better World" and who will feature in "The Hobbit", has been fined for cocaine use only a few months after a previous bust.

The Desolation of Smaug may run a far more terrifying riot than the sometimes jaunty escapades of the first film in Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy but the introduction of Beorn is handled wonderfully ...

the Lady of Lothlorien in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit," New Line, Warner Bros. and MGM announced on Tuesday. Ken Stott, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, William Kircher, "Dr. Who" star Sylvester ...