He won the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1997 and played Aatami Korpi in the film Sisu (2022).

His father died when Jorma was four years old, after suffering from injuries to his lungs in World War II.

[3] Whilst at Helsinki Theatre Academy in 1987, Tommila was one of four founding members of Jumalan teatteri (God's Theater), a Finnish theater group that made experimental and radical stage art, their performances including full frontal nudity, the setting off of fire extinguishers, and the performers throwing faeces into the crowd.

[5] In 1997, Tommila won the Jussi Award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Christmas Party, directed by his God Theatre's fellow founder Jari Halonen.

Korpi, with courage and "unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds", becomes "a one-man death squad who will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.