Svante Thunberg

Svante Fritz Vilhelm Thunberg (born 10 June 1969) is a Swedish actor, author, and father of climate activist Greta Thunberg. With his wife, he wrote a memoir, Scenes from the Heart (2018), later updated as Our House is on Fire (2020). Early life Thunberg is the son of two actors, Olof Thunberg and Mona Andersson, and was born in 1969, four years after his sister Amanda. He is named after an ancestral cousin, Svante Arrhenius, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903.