Jorma Tommila

Jorma Tommila is a Finnish actor. He won the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1997 and played Aatami Korpi in the films Sisu and Sisu: Road to Revenge.

Early and personal life

Tommila was born in Rauma, Finland and spent his youth in Kiukainen. His father died when Jorma was four years old, after suffering from injuries to his lungs in World War II. Tommila was raised by his mother, and his older sister Kielo Tommila is also an actress. He lives with his family in Vaasa. He is married to actress Ida Helander-Tommila, the sister of director Jalmari Helander. He is the father of Onni Tommila, who is also an actor.

Career

Whilst at Helsinki Theatre Academy in 1987, Tommila was one of four founding members of Jumalan teatteri, a Finnish theater group that made experimental and radical stage art, their performances including full frontal nudity, the setting off of fire extinguishers, and the performers throwing faeces into the crowd. The four were arrested and fined, and given suspended prison sentences. They were also expelled from the academy, the expulsion prompting protests from fellow students.
In 1997, Tommila won the Jussi Award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Christmas Party, directed by his God Theatre's fellow founder Jari Halonen.
Tommila's character in the film Sisu, filmed in Lapland with a budget of €6 million, has been compared with Rambo in the 1982 film, and with John Wick. He has also been described as a “new action cinema icon”.
Tommila portrays Aatami Korpi, an ex-commando and gold prospector who strikes gold but has his bounty stolen by Nazi soldiers. Korpi, with courage and "unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds", becomes "a one-man death squad who will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path." For the role Tommila won the award for best actor at the Sitges Film Festival in 2022.
Tommila is also known as a screenwriter; among other things, he has written the screenplay with Antti Jokinen for an upcoming film Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo, which is directed by Jokinen.

Partial filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Back to the USSR – takaisin Ryssiin	Reima Elo	Also co-writer
1995	Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma	Lipton Cockton
1996	The Christmas Party	Bona Merenkylä	Also co-producer
2000	Bad Luck Love	Ali
2003	Raid	French Foreign Legionary
2004	Vares: Private Eye	Antero Kraft
2007	The Year of the Wolf	Jarkko Salminen
2009	The Visitor	Father
2010	Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale	Rauno Kontio
2014	Big Game	Tapio Kontio
2022	Sisu	Aatami Korpi
2025	Sisu: Road to Revenge	Aatami Korpi