- Born
- Birth nameBjörn Johan Andrésen
- Nickname
- The most beautiful boy in the world
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Björn Andrésen was born on January 26, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Midsommar (2019), Gentlemen & Gangsters (2016) and Death in Venice (1971).
- SpousesSuzanna(1983 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)Susanna Román(1983 - 1986)
- In his early 20s, he found himself in Paris on the promise of an acting job. He was installed in an apartment by an older man and paid a generous stipend. Meals and gifts came his way from assorted male admirers; one composed love poems in his honor.
- During the nineties, Björn lived with Teresa Schmiterlöw, with whom he produced several music and theatre works.
- As an adult he often worked as a music teacher between acting roles.
- Like Mark Lester and Jack Wild, and later Leif Garrett, Andrésen was especially popular in Japan during the 1970s. He appeared in several television advertisements there, and recorded several pop songs.
- Resides in Stockholm. He has a daughter, Robine. Björn and his ex-wife Susana Roman had another child, a boy, Elvin (their first child), who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 1986.
- It's very different now, but you can see why most actors would avoid homosexual roles . . . After I was in Death in Venice (1971) so many papers in America wrote that I was homosexual. All from one movie! I kept having to say no, no, which makes me sound desperate or prejudiced . . . so I think for me I'm better being far away from all that.
- I was just 16 and [Luchino Visconti] and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.
- My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely.
- I didn't choose "Death in Venice". "Death in Venice" chose me.
- I would rather have built my life than be put on this pedestal.
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