Johan Widerberg kicked off his acting career at a young age, starring in one of his father’s (Bo Widerberg) films Man on the Roof (1976). During his career Widerberg has been nominated for ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best Supporting Actor’ at The Guldbagge Awards – for Love Lessons (1996), Under the Sun (1999), Happy End (2012) – and awarded with the Prize for ‘Best Actor’ at The Rouen Nordic Film Festival in 1996.

In recent years, Widerberg has portrayed many celebrated characters in Swedish TV series. In the lauded series Springfloden (2016-2018) he played the quirky informant Minken, in Missing (2017) he portrayed Pastor Stein and in hit series Bäckström (2020) he played the role of scout leader Haqvin Furuhjelm.

2022 saw the premiere of the HBO series Lust wherein Widerberg starred as the overly politically correct husband Rasmus, as well as the acclaimed Discovery + series Vi i villa, with Widerberg in the part as the unpleasant bully Martin. He was praised for his stand-out performances and ability to embody a wide range of characters.

Widebergs’s latest acting projects include Jens Jonsson’s Doktrinen (2024) and Tryggve Allister Diesen’s To Cook a Bear/ Koka Björn (2024).

Widerberg is also an experienced screenwriter for film and TV. Together with Sara Heldt he has written scripts for the popular TV series Death of a Pilgrim (2013) and Another Time, Another Life (2014), both based on the best-selling and award-winning novels by Leif GW Persson. Death of a Pilgrim and Another Time, Another Life were nominated for the prestigious Prix Europa in 2014 and 2015 respectively.