Antti Pääkkönen

Antti Ilmari Pääkkönen (born February 5, 1964 in Kuhmo) is a Finnish actor. His brother Seppo Pääkkönen and his nephew Jasper Pääkkönen are also Actors.

Life and career
Antti Pääkkönen was born in Kuhmo in 1964 to a merchant family. He has four big brothers: Jukka, Markku, Seppo and Matti. The family moved to Riihimäki in the early 1970s. Pääkkönen became interested in acting when Seppo attracted him to the Riihimäki Theater.

In 1981, when he was in the first year of upper secondary school, Pääkkönen studied acting at the University of Tampere. She graduated with a Master's degree in Theater Arts in 1985 and started as an actor at the Finnish National Theater.

In the National Theater, Pääkkönen has played sixty roles in Odysseus to Aapoo of the Seven Brothers and Nalle Puhin to Nasu. Between 2007 and 2009 he performed in Lahti with Kristian Smeds from The Unknown Soldier of Väinö Linna.

Pääkkönen has acted as a young president in the television series The Condemned (1995), The Presidents (2005-2006) and The Devil and the Peony (2008) and in the film Mindless August (2013).

Antti Pääkkönen has done dozens of dubbing roles. He is known, among others, for Mickey Mouse, Shadow Duck, Väiski Vemmelsäär, Bobi Tomato, Puuha-Pete Backhoe, Noss and Tatu, Teddy Bear Puhas Nasuna, Digimon Adventure's many characters and Toy Story's Woody. In the 2000s episodes of Knall and the Umbrella, she plays Sir Clive.

The lump has five children.

Filmography

 * SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
 * Phineas and Ferb (2007)
 * The Simpsons Movie (2007)
 * The Amazing World of Gumball (2008)
 * Elias and the Treasure of the Sea (2010)
 * VeggieTales (1993)
 * The Lego Movie (2014)
 * The Emoji Movie (2017)