Måns Mårlind

After making his feature film debut in 2005, he co-directed the big-budget horror films Shelter (2010) and Underworld: Awakening (2012) and co-created the Danish-Swedish crime thriller The Bridge (2011–2018).

Måns Mårlind
Mårlind in 2012
Born	Måns Magnus Mårlind (1969-07-29) 29 July 1969 (age 54) Vallentuna, Stockholm County, Sweden
Occupations	Director screenwriter
Years active	1997–present
Partner	Tuppence Middleton
Children	1

Mårlind attended film programs at Stockholm University, Sweden and American Film Institute along with Björn Stein [sv], with whom he would start a long-standing directorial partnership. His first work was as a writer for the 1995 Swedish drama series Radioskugga, followed by the children's science fiction series Kenny Starfighter (1997). He then worked as an assistant director on Aspiranterna [sv] (1998), Jakten på en mördare [sv] (1999) and Anna Holt [sv] (1999).

Work with Björn Stein

In 2005, Mårlind and Björn Stein made their feature film debut with the fantasy thriller Storm, which was followed by the 2010 supernatural thriller Shelter (also known as 6 Souls in the United States), starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and based on a screenplay by UK screenwriter Michael Cooney. Mårlind and Stein then co-directed Underworld: Awakening (2012), which starred Kate Beckinsale as Selene and grossed over $160 million worldwide, and Shed No Tears (2013), based on the songs of singer-songwriter Håkan Hellström. The latter was nominated for nine Guldbagge Awards (the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards), including Best Director and Best Film.

For television, the duo directed all episodes of the Swedish-French police procedural Midnight Sun (2016) and the Netflix-distributed historical thriller The Defeated (2020), also known as Shadowplay. Both series were created and written by Mårlind.

He is the father of one child with English actress Tuppence Middleton, born in August 2022.

Film

 

Television