Ville Juhana Haapasalo

Ville Haapasalo is a Finnish actor and TV presenter who has gained unexpected popularity in Russia. Ville Haapasalo starred in the cult films Peculiarities of the National Hunt and Peculiarities of the National Fishing, which are included in the list of films that Russians are happy to watch during the winter holidays. Ville Haapasalo also leads a number of documentary projects about travels in Russia.

Ville Haapasalo was born on February 28, 1972 in the Finnish village of Lahti. This is perhaps the only actor from Finland who is more popular in Russia than in his homeland.

In Lahti, where the future actor spent his childhood, all residents were athletic. Ville also went in for sports, tried his hand at hockey, skiing, swimming, played football and baseball: the guy was engaged in several sports in parallel.

As a teenager, Ville Haapasalo got acquainted with the theater and fell in love with it. He participated in amateur productions and thought about how he would combine sports and acting. It didn't work out to combine - I had to choose. Ville chose the theater. He planned to study in England, spent a long time preparing for the entrance exams, even paid for them. But chance intervened.

Haapasalo was walking to the ticket booths when he met a longtime acquaintance and talked about his upcoming trip to England. He convinced him to enter a Russian university, because the theater school there is stronger, and Russia is closer.

Ville Haapasalo listened to him and decided to enter the theater institute in Leningrad. I arrived, passed the exams, not knowing a word of Russian. The admissions committee did not understand him, and he did not understand what they were saying to him. Despite this, the Finnish guy paid for his studies and became a student.

The first six months were torture for Ville - he sat at lectures, and after them he intensively studied Russian. In addition, it was necessary to earn a living, which was not so easy in the dashing 90s - a Finn was robbed nine times in a year. Ville Haapasalo turned out to be a diligent student: in his first year of study, he did not find time to get to know Leningrad.

Ville Haapasalo's creative career began unexpectedly and surprisingly. Ville got into the cinema by accident and immediately became a star. It was A. Rogozhkin's comedy "Peculiarities of the National Hunt". Ville Haapasalo studied in his last year of university, and the director was looking for a characteristic type. Someone from his acquaintances told Rogozhkin that a student from Finland was studying at the theater. Ville was invited to audition. Light-haired, tall (the actor's height is 185 cm), Ville with characteristic facial features immediately matched the image.

That role became significant - Ville was recognized on the streets, they took his autograph. He was frightened by unexpected popularity and closed himself off from society. After college, the actor went home and worked as a driver for a year. But then I decided to return to the profession. As he himself says, he again got a call from Rogozhkin and was invited to appear in "Peculiarities of National Fishing".

For a long time no one knew about Ville Haapasalo in Finland, until the movie "Cuckoo" was released. It has been shown in both countries. For his role in this film, the actor received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2003.

Ville Haapasalo took part in the filming of the romantic comedy Love in the City, playing the role of the merry fellow Sauna. The film tells the story of friends who play life, who work in a foreign land, and in their free time come off "like adults." But one day, chance intervenes in a careless and sloppy life. The picture was filmed in the USA, in New York. It starred such stars as Alexei Chadov, Vera Brezhneva, Vladimir Zelensky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anastasia Zadorozhnaya, Philip Kirkorov and others. Haapasalo also starred in the next two parts of the comedy, which were released in 2010 and 2014.

Today, his filmography includes more than 40 roles in Russian and Finnish projects. Ville has his own film studio, which he opened in Russia.

He started working as a presenter on Finnish television in 2005, and two years later he appeared in the Russian program Main Road.

Then there were several documentary projects on Channel Five in St. Petersburg. In 2010, Ville, together with Alexander Oleshko, hosted the "Minute of Glory" program.

The actor often appears in commercials. He starred in advertisements for the sights of Kotka and Hamina, was the face of the Finn Flare fashion brand, and advertised for the Sinebrychoff brand.

Haapasalo's calling card is travel projects in the “30 days” format for the YLE TV and radio company. Most of Haapasalo's programs are about Russia in one way or another.

In 2010, Ville directed the Venäjänhalki 30 päivässä (Through Russia in 30 Days) cycle. Three years later, this project was broadcast in Russian on the channel "My Planet" under the title "30 days in Russia with Ville Haapasalo".

In 2012, Ville Haapasalo released Silkkitie 30 päivässä (The Great Silk Road in 30 Days). In the same year, Ville became the TV presenter of the MTV MAX culinary show "Sapuskaa, harashoo!", Where in each episode Haapasalo, together with popular personalities, prepares local dishes in Russia.

The next travel project was the cycle "Suomensukuiset 30 päivässä" about the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia, which was released in 2013. And in 2014, Ville presented a new cycle “Jäämeri 30 päivässä” (“Arctic Ocean in 30 days” or “30 days in the Arctic”), where he traveled along the northern coast of Russia.

Since 2014, Ville Haapasalo has started producing personalized programs. The first such program was Haapasalo Goes America, in which the TV presenter crosses the United States on historic Route 66.

In 2015, a new travel cycle “Kaukasia 30 päivässä” (“Caucasus in 30 days”) was released.

After graduating from the institute, Haapasalo returned to Finland and met his first wife, Sarah Hedland. The couple have three children.

The marriage broke up when the actor became interested in director Tina Barkalaya, whom he met on the set in Russia. Soon the press started talking about their romance and that Tina was pregnant. Ville has a fourth child.

Tina believes that children should grow up in an official marriage. There were reports in the press that Ville Haapasalo proposed to her, but they have not legalized the relationship yet.

The actor dreams of retiring as soon as possible and doing the forest, watching the films in which he starred, flipping through comics sitting by the fireplace. He already has over 1000 comics in his collection.

Haapasalo loves to drive, and he doesn't care if it's a snowmobile or a car, but he is terrified of flying on airplanes. Several times Ville refused to fly, listening to his inner voice.

The actor has good physical fitness. TV viewers were convinced of this when Ville Haapasalo participated in the Ice Age TV show in tandem with the Olympic champion in ice dancing Tatiana Navka. The couple took second place.

Ville says about himself that he is a non-conflict person, it is difficult to get him. The main thing is not to intrude on the personal space, which he defined by one and a half meters around him.

In 2016, Ville Haapasalo aired two TV shows, one for each of his own popular format: Volga 30 päivässä (Volga in 30 days) and Haapasalo goes lomalle (Haapasalo goes on vacation).

In 2017, Ville Haapasalo attracted the attention of the press with a comment about the fact that the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation issued a warning banning the sale of alcohol to drunk citizens in shops or bars from September 1, 2018. The TV presenter told the press that he was very surprised that there was no such ban in Russia yet. According to Ville, alcohol will not be sold to a drunk person in Finland. But the actor admitted that he was not sure whether there was a legal prohibition or regulation on this matter, usually sellers determine by eye whether the buyer was very drunk, and independently decide whether to sell alcohol or not.

1995 - "Peculiarities of the National Hunt" 1996 - "Operation Happy New Year!" 1998 - "Peculiarities of National Fishing" 2001 - "Deadly Force" 2005 - "KGB in a Tuxedo" 2002 - "Cuckoo" 2004 - "Queen of the Gas Station 2" 2005 - "Three Musketeers" 2006 - "Orange Sky" 2007 - "Irony of Fate. Continuation "2009 -" Merry "2009 -" Love in the City "2011 -" Pregnant "2012 -" Suicides "2013 -" Daddy for Rent "

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