Michael Nyqvist (born November 8, 1960 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he had his breakthrough as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. As a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage and his biological father is Italian.

Nyqvist won the Guldbagge-Award for best male actor in 2003.

(2001) Signed the appeal Swedish Film Workers for Peace and Freedom in an Independent Palestine.

Was trained at the Swedish school for acting in Malmö, Sweden.

He was a guest on the talk show Go Kväll in 2002.