Jonas Bane

Jonas Bane, is a Swedish actor currently appearing as the 16 year old Kim Dahlberg in Swedish Television SVT’s drama series Andra Avenyn He was born 14 September 1987 and grew up in Sollentuna, a county bordering the north of Stockholm. At high school he studied music, among other things, playing piano, bass guitar and “a little of the drums”. He played bass in - and was “chief style consultant” in a band and appeared on local TV in Sollentuna. His stage debut was at the "Oscartheater" in Stockholm in March 2007. He was part of a 50 strong ensemble specially assembled for a new Swedish Musical called “1956”. The ensemble was called “"Danubia"” and the music was provided by "Stockholms Rocksinfonietta" which was also formed specially for this production. Much influenced by Les Misérables , “1956” linked the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 with the demonstrations in Gothenburg in 2001 against President George W Bush and American foreign policy. The heroine discovers that her father had killed a demonstrator in Hungary in 1956.

In 2007 Jonas applied to audition for one of the teenager roles in Andra Avenyn, a lavish Swedish TV soap opera set in Gothenburg. He was one of the forty chosen to participate in a Pop Idol/American Idol style mini-series to be filmed and broadcast. He thus landed the role of Kim Dahlberg a troubled, bi-sexual youngster. In an interview during the auditions, Jonas indicated that he was determined to make acting his career. He has certainly made an impact. In 2008 he was nominated "Årets HBT-fast-inte-på-riktigt" ("The not-really-gay Personality of the Ye"ar) by GX magazine. He is relaxed about this, but prefers his current girlfriend.

He claims to have light blond hair - and not the rusty hair he has in character - to be 1.74 meters tall, to like bears and cats and to hate spiders and death. He has catholic musical tastes, running best to chill-out jazz.

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*cite web |url=http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=71652&a=933839|title=Swedish Television site for Jonas Bane
*cite web |url=http://mobil.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=62242&a=912463|title=Interview in Swedish with Jonas Bane
*cite web |url=http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/program/artikel.asp?ProgramID=1012&artikel=1277248&nyheter=1|title=Review in Swedish of 1956 at Oscartheatern