Biography

Jon Karl Kristian Mankell, born September 28, 1980 in Norrköping's Sankt Olai parish in Östergötland County, is a Swedish film producer. Jon Mankell studied at Örebro University from 2002–2005. He was a producer at Yellow Bird 2005–2014 and has been active at Chimney since 2014. Among other things, he has worked with film productions from the Wallander series and the Millennium series. He has been a board member of Yellow Horse Film & TV AB and Palco Media AB since 2009. He is the son of the author Henning Mankell and Ulla Blom Ivarsson and the grandson of Ivar Mankell. He is cohabiting with Lina Jernström (born 1980) and has a daughter (born 2015).

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