Nils Eklund

Nils Eklund (b. January 17, 1927) played Pompom on Svenska Sesam, the Swedish co-production of Sesame Street. His fullname is Nils Ernst Gustaf Eklund.

His parents where actors, but he decided to not follow in their footsteps so he started on a trade school. Around the age nineteen he was on a tour with his parents, where he got his stage debut. After that he started taking private acting lessons. He got a job at Helsingborgs city theater. In the 50's he was employed at Malmö theater, that was under management of Ingmar Bergman. Since then he has been employed at different theaters around Sweden.

Besides having a big list of movie and TV credits he has also voiced many cartoons among those are many Disney movies such as Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin and others.