Finnish actor

Antti Litja

Intro
Finnish actor
Awards Received
Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland
Lifetime Concrete Jussi Award
Jussi Award for Best Leading Actor
Music

Antti Litja (born 21 February 1938 in Antrea, Finland, now Kamennogorsk, Leningrad Oblast) is a Finnish actor.

Litja entered film in 1959 and has made over 60 Finnish film and TV appearances to date. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s since the mid-1990s he has become mostly an actor on television appearing on a number of series.

Litja played the main character in the 1977 film Jäniksen vuosi about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.