Raimo Grönberg (born 8 March 1953 in

Oulu, Finland Oulu ( , ; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia. It is located on the northwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the River Oulu. The population of Oulu is approximately , while the sub-region has a popul ...

) is a Finnish

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

whose career has mainly based on

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

. Grönberg began acting in 1978 on

working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s appearing in a number of TV series. In film he starred in 1978's The Guarded Village 1944 (Finnish: Vartioitu kylä 1944), the

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

film ''

Sibelius Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

'' working with Finnish director

Timo Koivusalo Timo Johannes Koivusalo (born 31 October 1963) is a Finnish actor, director, writer, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was '' Rentun Ruusu'', released in 2001. Life and career Koivusalo was born in Pori, and trained as a ...

and actors such as

Martti Suosalo (born 19 July 1962) is a Finnish actor and singer. Suosalo was born in Oulu, and began his career in 1986 with an appearance in a TV series. He began to work as a regular actor on Finnish television but also appeared in several films in the e ...

, Heikki Nousiainen, Seela Sella,

Miina Turunen Miina Turunen (born 1973 in Kouvola, Finland) is a Finnish actress. Turunen attended , a school in Helsinki which specialises in the performing arts,Marjo Kytöharju"Miina Turunen kertoo nukkejen avulla liikuttavan prinssisadun" ', 25 October ...

and

Vesa Vierikko Vesa Tapio Vierikko (born 24 May 1956 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is a Finnish actor. Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He starred in the 2003 film ''Sibelius'' working with Finnish d ...

.Raimo Gronberg
The New York Times. Accessed March 3rd, 2012. He once again worked with director Koivusalo in '' Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa'' in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

. He is scheduled to star in another Koivusalo film ''

Täällä Pohjantähden alla ''Under the North Star'' () is a trilogy published between 1959 and 1962 by Väinö Linna, Finnish author and former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941–44). The novel follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880, through th ...

'' in 2009. 2009–2013 Grönberg played Seargeant Härmälä in very popular Finnish countryside drama series ''Pirunpelto''. Grönberg is also known as Gunnar Mustavaara in

MTV3 MTV3 (, ) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched on 13 August 1957 as a programming block, becoming its own channel on 1 January 1993. It had the biggest audience share ...

's soap opera ''

Salatut elämät ''Salatut elämät'' ("Secret Lives", literally "Concealed Lives") is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment b ...

'' (2017–). In 2018 he appeared in crime drama series '' Deadwind''.

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