Tapani Kalliomäki


Tapani Kalliomäki is a Finnish stage and film actor.
Kalliomäki graduated from Finnish Helsinki theatre academy in 1997. His teachers in the academy were for example Kari Heiskanen, Kari Väänänen and Vesa Vierikko. Kalliomäki began his career in theatre in the late 1980s as a stage actor. Entering Finnish film in 1995 he has worked with director Timo Koivusalo on several occasions appearing in the 2003 film Sibelius alongside actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen, Seela Sella, Miina Turunen, Vesa Vierikko, Raimo Grönberg and Jarmo Mäkinen. Then in 2005 he worked with Timo Koivusalo and Martti Suosalo again in the film of that year in Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa. In 2007, Kalliomäki is seen in Åke Lindman's film Tali-Ihantala as Majuri Suurkari and on television in production Puolustuksen puheenvuoro playing the role of lawyer Silvasti. Kalliomäki has worked for example in Teatteri Pieni Suomi, Radioteatteri, Helsinki city theatre, KOM-theatre, Kallio-theatre and now he is actor of Lahti city theatre. Kalliomäki will play the role of Janne Kivivuori in the upcoming movies Täällä Pohjantähden alla and Täällä Pohjantähden alla II.
On television, he has been in about twenty made for TV movies and played the lead role in the series Hovimäki.

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