page_title: Johannes Brost
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Johannes Brost / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Johannes Brost och Nermina Lukač med sina guldbaggar på Guldbaggegalan 21 januari 2013.
context_page_description: Edvard Johannes Brost Forssell was a Swedish actor. He became recognized for his roles in the television programs Stjärnhuset and Rederiet; in Rederiet he appeared in 318 episodes. In 2013, he won a Guldbagge award for his role in the film Avalon. He also had several roles in theater.
context_section_description: In 1981, he had the leading role in the SVT children's television program Christmas calendar titled Stjärnhuset, which won him national recognition. A year later Brost became a panelist on the ratings success Gäster med gester, which began airing on SVT; he also appeared in several pantomimes. He also participated in several comedy plays such as Bäddat för sex (A Bedfull of Foreigners) and Är du inte riktigt fisk at Chinateatern; Me and My Girl at Intiman in Stockholm and Kuta och kör at the Palladium in Malmö.
  Brost became best known for his role as Joker the bartender in the television series Rederiet; he appeared in all 318 episodes of the series, which ran  between 1992 and 2002. He also had roles in several films, including Black Jack, Änglagård, Jönssonligan dyker upp igen and The Visitors.
  He was an honorary citizen of Laholm and produced several summer revue shows there. He also appeared in several plays directed by Eva Rydberg at Fredriksdalsteatern in Helsingborg.
  In 2013, Brost won a Guldbagge award for his leading role in the 2011 film Avalon. He also played Pekka in the series Jordskott and appeared in the show Lilyhammer.
  In 2016, Brost took part in the SVT show Stjärnorna på slottet, in which he spoke about his life and career. He also appeared as a celebrity dancer in Let's Dance 2017 on TV4. His last role, in December 2017, was that of Sievert Lindberg, a wealthy man interested in a friend of Dagmar Friman, in the SVT series Fröken Frimans krig'.
caption: Johannes Brost and Nermina Lukac with their awards at Guldbaggem 21 January 2013
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