Who is Henrik?

Henrik Fexeus was born at Längbro Lasarett in Örebro at 5:57 pm, September 29th in 1971, without the rest of the world seeming to care. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm, where he spent his formative years as well as the first struggling period as a young adult.

Already as a five year old, Henrik was fascinated by the thought that there might be a different world than the one we see. (He was strange even as a child.) This made him interested in everything that explored the frontiers of what was possible; electronic music, science, science fiction and fantasy. And, of course, magic.

Magic became Henrik’s first big love, together with writing. But since it proved much more difficult getting a job – not to mention a girlfriend – as a magician, his first real job was for a local paper, and at the same time writing for monthly magazines about film, music and computers.

The study years was spent on philosophy, media science and psychology at Stockholm University. At the same time, Henrik made his living as a DJ and toured with a band, so it is quite possible that he didn’t take all his exams.

TV and radio

Henrik became known for the larger public in 2007 with the tv special Mind Storm on SVT, where he in two seasons (2007-2009) performed spectacular psychological experiments on ordinary people. The reviews noted that he looked “like a classic Bond villaind” and seemed to possess an “almost frighteningly large ego”.

It might have been those qualities that in 2011 gave him a jury seat on TV4:s Swedens Got Talent, together with national treasures Bert Karlsson and Charlotte Perrelli. By that time, he had also been a host for one season of TEMA on The Knowledge Channel.

In 2014 it was time for Henrik to spark controversy again, this time with the tv special The Love Code on SVT, a serious attempt to create a scientific dating program.

The same year, Henrik filmed a new series of psychological experiments, this time as part of News Morning av TV4. During 2015-2017 you could also hear Henrik’s voice every weekend in the radio show Dilemma on Mix Megapol, where he attempted to solve the listener’s problems together with a rotating panel of celebrities.

Since then, Henrik has mostly been seen on tv as a frequent guest and expert commentator in a plethora of news and entertainment programs. (He actually won Bake Off VIP in 2017, but in 2022 he was the seond particant to get woted out of Strictly Come Dancing. So it evens out.)

The writer and the lecturer

Henrik has written ten books in which he tries to explain how we humans work and how we can do so a bit better. These books have been translated into 30 languages and have got an amazing international reception, something that still makes Henrik blush a bit when he thinks about it. Apparently, he wasn’t the only one who wanted to know how you get along with other people.

These books also led to 16 years of travelling the world to give talks, lectures and courses in non-verbal communication and influence, something that gave Henrik the nomination as one of the world’s leading experts in communication. He has trained both leaders of the world’s largest companies, and the police, and his books are used by Disney Pixar.

Henrik changed track during the pandemic and started to write non-fiction, something he had longed to do ever since he wrote his first awkward attempts at school. In 2019 he started on the crime trilogy about Vincent & Mina, together with accomplished writer Camilla Läckberg. The trilogy became something of an international phenomenon when it was published in the mind blowing number of 60 countries, and is currently being developed for tv.

Idag har han skrivit sjutton böcker som sålt i över 2,5 miljoner exemplar och översatts till mer än 35 språk. Henrik tycker själv att hans nya spänningsserie, som börjar med boken Offerdjuret, är rätt ärtig även den.

Henrik has written seventeen books as of today, which have sold over 2,5 million copies and been translated into more than 35 languages. Henrik also thinks that his hew suspense series, which starts with The Sacrifice, is quite spiffy as well.

The mentalist

Since he was a small child, Henrik’s heart has been beating for the art of conjuring and confusing people. Just as he likes to do it in his books, he loves to do it on stage. But Henrik’s version of magic is a far cry from red handkerchiefs and playing cards.

As Swedens foremost mentalist, or psychological illusionist and manipulator, or being-able-to-make-it-look-like-he-can-read-minds-althoug-he-can’t-(but-are-we-sure?), he mixes genuine psychological trickery with classical magic techniques and pure mischief, to create his own mix of slightly confusing entertainment where no-one really knows what is real or not.

His first show, Mind Melt, opened in 2004 for only three performances. Today he tours all over Sweden as one of the countries most unique (but in a good way) entertainers.

In 2024 he celebrates 20 years on stage, with his sixth and largest show to date, The Mentalist. Exactly what whill happen during the show is kept tightly under wraps. But it will most likely be crazier than ever.

Henrik has been called both “charlatan” and “a great master” by the papers. One of them is probably right.