Tuomas Holopainen

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1976-12-25 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Kitee, Finland

Also Known As Nightwish, Darkwoods My Betrothed, Nattvindens Gråt

Tuomas Holopainen

Biography

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, screenwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen. Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player, and male vocalist Marco Hietala on "While Your Lips Are Still Red", for the Finnish film Lieksa! in 2007. He also co-wrote Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tuomas Holopainen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2016
Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit

as Self - Keyboards

2016
To Nightwish with Love

as Tuomas Holopainen

2012
Imaginaerum

as Tom Whitman (age 47)

2010
Rock-Suomi

as Self

2008
2007
Nightwish: Amaranth

as Keyboards

2006
Nightwish: End of an Era

as Himself - Keyboards

2005
2004
Nightwish: Nemo

as Keyboards

Sound

Editor