MICHAEL Nyqvist, the star of the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films, has died at the age of 56, his family has announced.

The Swedish star, also known for playing villains in John Wick and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, died surrounded by his family after battling lung cancer for a year, a representative said.

In a statement on behalf of his family on Tuesday, he was paid tribute to as “one of Sweden’s most respected and accomplished actors”.

HALLE Berry has said the achievement of becoming the first black woman to win the best actress Oscar was made to feel worthless by subsequent lack of diversity.

She remains the only non-white woman to have been handed the accolade 15 years after she won for her performance in Monster’s Ball.

In her acceptance speech, she dedicated the award to “every nameless, faceless woman of colour” and later added she hoped the moment had broken a glass ceiling.

But Berry, 50, has revealed that one of her “lowest professional moments” came when no black stars were nominated for major awards at the 2015 Oscars, a scenario that was repeated the following year.

“It’s troubling, to say the least,” she told Teen Vogue last week.

“It was probably one of my lowest professional moments because I sat there and I remembered that speech.

“I sat there and I thought, ‘Wow that moment really meant nothing’."

PHILIP Pullman will name a character in his latest book after a teenage victim of the Grenfell fire.

Pullman was involved in the Authors For Grenfell auction campaign, which saw literary figures donating prizes to raise money for the British Red Cross London Fire Relief Fund, for residents affected by the recent tragedy.

Pullman pledged the right to name a character in the second of his The Book Of Dust trilogy, a companion to the author’s His Dark Materials series.

Nur Huda el-Wahabi, 15, will be immortalised in the book after her former teacher James Clements’ initial bid on Sunday of £1,500 prompted hundreds of others to donate in her name.

Minutes before bidding closed on at 8pm on Tuesday, Authors For Grenfell said that the bid for Nur Huda was sitting at £32,138, although several other bids were made in the following moments.

The charity scheme’s organiser, Molly Ker Hawn, later said on Twitter that the winning total had reached £32,400.