Meet Joonas Suotamo At Awesome Con!
Posted by Dustin on March 17, 2018 at 08:00 AM CST
Joonas Suotamo will be attending Awesome Con on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Known For: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Joonas Suotamo was born on October 3, 1986, in Espoo, Finland as Joonas Viljami Suotamo. He is an actor, known for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016) where he shared the role of Chewbacca played by Peter Mayhew in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi and played the role on his own in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
As a youth, Suotamo performed roles as a stage actor. He attended Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and played the power forward and center positions for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and played professionally in Europe for the Espoo team from 2011-2015.
With childhood interests in music, arts, and movies he studied film and video at PSU. He was a strong academic performer at Penn State, where he was twice named to the Academic All-Big Ten team, and graduated in 3.5 years with a Bachelor of Arts degree in December 2008 in order to fulfill his Finnish conscription service and to pursue a career in film. Suotamo is an actor and musician but his height limits available acting roles so he's also concentrating on directing. He has also sold insurance
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