Directing
Community Rating
6.7
Initial estimate
Born
August 17, 1958 (age 67)
Born in
Uppsala, Sweden
Jonas Grimås (born 7 August 1958) is a Swedish film and television director, based in London since 1988. He was educated at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, and then the Royal College of Art in London. In 1988 he won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film with Artisten. He was also nominated in 1995 for Best Short Film with Marooned. In 2011 he was named "Cultural Personality of the Year" by the Stockholms Kultur Foundation. Grimås started out working on Swedish soap operas but has made a name for himself by making British crime dramas. He was a regular contributor to ITV’s Heartbeat, having directed 30 episodes. He has also directed episodes of Hamish Macbeth, Silent Witness, and Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind starring Clive Owen. While based in London he has also taken on Swedish projects, directing two episodes of the TV series Wallander, and the adaptations of two Camilla Läckberg novels Predikanten ("The Preacher") and Isprinsessan ("The Ice Princess").
The Farmer's Wife
as Executive Producer
2012
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Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher
as Writer, Director
2007
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Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess
as Director, Writer
2007
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Wallander: The Photographer
as Co-Writer, Director
2006
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Wallander: The Trickster
as Co-Writer, Director
2006
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Wallander
as Director, Co-Writer
2005
—Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
as Director
2001
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Hamish Macbeth
as Director
1995
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Marooned
as Director
1994
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Tre kronor
as Director
1994
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Heartbeat
as Director
1992
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Bakom Sällskapsresan III
as Editor
1989
—The Artist
as Director, Writer
1987
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