Piotr Giro

Piotr Giro (born January 16, 1974) is a Polish-born Swedish actor, dancer and choreographer.

Biography Piotr Giro is educated at The Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and has been active since 1995 as an actor, dancer and choreographer both in Sweden and abroad.

Giro had his breakthrough when he portrayed the lead role in Romeo and Juliet at Royal Dramatic Theatre, a collaboration with Cirkus Cirkör, and the title role in Don Juan by Molière at Gothenburg City Theater. Giro had one of the leading roles in the film adaptation of Keillers Park by and has appeared in a number of films, including The Girl, the Mother and the Demons and Wellkåmm to Verona by Suzanne Osten.

Giro has performed with and toured alongside some of the world’s most renowned dance companies and choreographers including Batsheva Dance Company, Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, La La La Human Steps / Édouard Lock, Cullberg Ballet and Josef Nadj company. He has also collaborated with David Byrne and with Marc Ribot.

Personal life Piotr is a long time practitioner of Aikido, acrobatics and rock climbing. He also practices Zazen since 2010.

Filmography

1999 – The Last Words / Ultima Vez & Flemish Film / Dir - Wim Vandekeybus 2000 – Inasmuch / Ultima Vez & Quasi Modo / Dir - Wim Vandekeybus 2001 – Mantra / Svt Drama / Dir - Jörgen Hjerdt 2002 – In Spite of Wishing and Wanting / Film in Vlaanderen / Dir - Wim Vandekeybus 2003 – Five Staircases / Svt Drama / Dir - Hanna Andersson 2003 – Skeppsholmen / Svt Drama / Dir - Simon Kaijser 2004 – Graveyard Island / Agadir Film / Dir - Martin Forsström & Daniel Möllberg 2006 – Wellkåmm to Verona / Filmlance & Metronome / Dir - Suzanne Osten 2006 – Keillers Park / Film i Väst / Dir - 2007 – The Blueberry War / Mañana Film AB / Dir - Lars-Göran Pettersson 2008 – Olof 1440 Min / iFilm / Dir - Johan Ribe 2009 – The Man Below the Stairs / Svt Drama / Dir - Daniel Lind Lagerlöf 2010 – Coffe / Svt Drama / Dir - Helena Franzén 2014 – The Ceremony / Svt Documentary / Dir - Lina Mannheimer 2015 – The Anatomy of Vengeance / Dir - Reich + Szyber 2016 – The Girl, Mother, and the Demons / Fundament Film / Dir - Suzanne Osten 2018 – Dance First / TriArt Film / Dir - Rikard Svensson 2025 – Cornelius / Short / Dir - Linus Lundgren

Theatrework

2002 – 2003 - Romeo & Juliet by W. Shakespeare - (Romeo) - Royal Dramatic Theatre 2003 – 2004 - Dante's Divine Comedy - Gothenburg City Theatre 2004 – Don Juan by Moliére - (Don Juan) - Gothenburg City Theatre 2004 – Propaganda - The away team - Jens Östberg 2005 – 99% Unknown - Circus Cirkör 2006 – Vagabond - (Piotr Giro) 2006 – Momo the grey gentlemen - (Gigi) - Stockholm City Theatre 2008 – Edward II - (Spencer) - Unga Klara - Stockholm City Theater 2009 – 2011 - Unknown Pleasures - Dance theatre - Stockholm City Theater 2010 – Eaten by Men - Dance theatre - Reich + Szyber 2015 – 2017 - Disaster in the Jungle - (Nikos Skalkottas) 2017 – Because I'm worth it - (The man in the couple) - Stockholm City Theatre 2026 – Frankenstein - (Victor Frankenstein) - Turteatern

Dancework

1995 – Royal Swedish Opera - Opera Aida 1995 – Royal Swedish Opera - Peer Gynt 1996 – Carl Olof Berg - ÄETT, Deuce 1996 – 1998 - Batsheva Dance Company - Ohad Naharin 1997 – Angelin Preljocaj - Batsheva Dance Company - Noces 1998 – Norrdans - Jens Östberg, Jo Strømgren 1998 – 2009 - Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus 2000 – 2001 - Josef Nadj - L'Anatomie du fauve 2004 – Philippe Blanchard - Noodles 2005 – Renovating an object - Piotr Giro, Shintaro Oue 2005 – Cirkus Cirkör - 99% Unknown 2006 – Vagabond - Piotr Giro 2007 – 2008 - Örjan Andersson - Triptych 2008 – 2009 - Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus - Spiegel 2009 – 2010 - Equal - Shintaro Oue, Piotr Giro, Satoshi Kudo 2011 – 2012 - Lena Philipsson - My Dream Show - Fredrik Rydman 2012 – Royal Swedish Opera - Bluebeard’s Castle / Trouble in Tahiti 2013 – Eurovision - interval act - Northern Lights - Fredrik Rydman 2014 – Jill Johnson - Hans Marklund - Hamburger Börs 2014 – Cullberg Ballet - 11th Floor - La La La Human Steps / Édouard Lock 2014 – 2015 - Bo.Le Ro - Piotr Giro, Shintaro Oue 2016 – Louise Crnkovic-Friis - Aarhus, Denmark 2016 – Ina Christel Johannessen - Come Back To See Us

Commercial & Music Videos

1993 – Pandora / Trust Me / Dir - Unknown 1996 – Thomas Di Leva / Den Glada Stjärnan / Dir - Di Leva 2002 – Roxette / A Thing About You / Dir - Jonas Åkerlund 2006 – Backyard Babies / The Mess Age (How Could I Be So Wrong) - Sony Music 2011 – Elin Lanto / Color Me Blue / Dir - Rafael Edholm 2014 – Takida / To Have And To Hold / Dir - Bengt-Anton Runsten 2015 – Ikea commercial / Dir - Jens Jonsson 2015 – Elin Lanto / Burning Heart / Dir - Robin Robinovich 2016 – Weeping Willows / My Love Is Not Blind / Dir - David Kaijser 2016 – Magnus Uggla / Dyngrak(VR) / Dir - Unknown