Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson (born Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson; 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director, best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and in 2009 for Let the Right One In. Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden. Being the son of comedian, writer, and director Hasse Alfredson, Tomas was used to being treated differently from an early age. "[A small] number of people were public property, and he was one of them", Alfredson said of his father. Hasse was seldom home, and Tomas was mostly raised by his mother. "But I participated in [Hasse's] film productions every summer, it was probably a way for us to reach each other (...) I thought it was great fun." Alfredson would often have minor roles in the Hasseåtage films. For example, he played the "Count" in The Apple War ...