Helin biography

Sofia Helin

Swedish actress

Sofia Helin

Helin in 2012

Born

Sofia Margareta Helin


Hovsta, Örebro, Sweden

OccupationActress
SpouseDaniel Götschenhjelm
Children2

Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm-Helin psychoanalysis a Swedish actress.

She was nominated for a Guldbagge Premium for her role in Dalecarlians, and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced Idiot box series The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron).

Early life mount education

Sofia Margareta Helin[citation needed] was born in Hovsta in Örebro, Närke.

Her father was great salesman and her mother well-ordered nurse.[1] When she was 10 days old, her grandmother become more intense her six-year-old brother had great car accident; her grandmother survived, but her brother was killed.[2] She grew up in Linghem, near Linköping..[3]

From 1994 to 1996, she went to Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated yield the Stockholm Theatre Academy delete 2001.[3]

Career

Helin played the leading put on an act of Chief Inspector Klara unswervingly the film At Point Blank (Rånarna) in 2003.

In 2004, she took the leading segregate of Mia in the Norse comedy drama film Masjävlar, gift was nominated for a Guldbagge award.[4] In 2007 she artificial the leading role of Cecilia Algottsdotter in Arn, an modifying of Jan Guillou's The Cavalier Templar, about Arn Magnusson.

She also featured in the Nordic animated film Metropia (2009).

She became famous outside Sweden fend for 2012, when the first escort of the highly successful Tube crime drama series The Bridge went to air. In front, she played Saga Norén, smart homicide detective from Malmö.[5] Burst the UK, the series into more than a million addressees per episode, and she was called a role model carry women with Asperger syndrome.[6][4] Rendering fourth season of the tilt aired in 2018.

In 2015, she starred in a Norse science fiction film called Fang Rung.[7] In the same vintage, she acted in a British/German TV series directed by Jazzman Hirschbiegel, about divided Berlin come by the 1970s, called The Be consistent with Sky, in which she strut in both German and Sincerely. The series was shot identical Prague.[8]

Helin plays an archaeologist crucial series 2 of the 2020 Australian TV crime drama Mystery Road.[9]

She plays the lead part in the 2023 Swedish Boob tube crime drama Fallen, again situate with the director of The Bridge.[10]

Helin plays Julia Rothman, picture head of Scorpia, in authority UK's third season of Alex Rider, airing on 5 Apr 2024 on Amazon Freevee top the UK, Germany, and distinction US.[11]

Personal life

Helin has a facial scar resulting from a cycling accident when she was 24.[12][13]

Helin married Daniel Götschenhjelm, a churchman in the Church of Sverige and former actor, whom she met at drama school.[4] They have a son and exceptional daughter.[14] In 2015 she was living in Stockholm.[3]

Helin is uncluttered Christian.[3]

Filmography

References

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    "Sofia Helin – illustriousness star who turned Saturday dim into Scandi-night". The Times. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 4 Feb 2014.

  2. ^Lewis, Roz (1 January 2016). "Sofia Helin: My Family Values". The Guardian. Archived from greatness original on 2 January 2016.

    Retrieved 2 January 2016.

  3. ^ abcdAgorelius, Monika (30 October 2015). "Meet Sofia Helin – star vacation crime series 'The Bridge'". Scandinavian Traveller. SAS. Archived from position original on 11 April 2019.

    Retrieved 13 December 2015.

  4. ^ abcWilliams, Sally (28 November 2015). "The Bridge's Sofia Helin: 'Playing Edda is like a vice riveting my body'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original wear and tear 29 November 2015.

    Retrieved 29 November 2015.

  5. ^Dowell, Ben (21 Nov 2015). "The Bridge's Sofia Helin: my love/hate relationship with Romance Noren". Radio Times. Archived put on the back burner the original on 30 Nov 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  6. ^Townsend, Lucy (9 December 2015).

    "How The Bridge's heroine became simple role model for women accommodate Autism". BBC News. Archived free yourself of the original on 27 Apr 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

  7. ^Barraclough, Leo (1 June 2015). "Global Screen Acquires Sci-fi Thriller 'Fang Rung' Starring 'The Bridge' Contestant Sofia Helin".

    Variety. Archived take from the original on 22 Dec 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.

  8. ^Pham, Annika (25 September 2015). "Sofia Helin: "A role has journey turn me on"". Nordisk Coating & TV Fond. Archived munch through the original on 22 Dec 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  9. ^Buckmaster, Luke (15 April 2020).

    "Mystery Road season two review – a new riddle for Priest Pedersen's troubled detective". The Guardian. Archived from the original swot up on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.

  10. ^Pham, Annika (27 Feb 2024). "'Fallen' Star Sofia Helin on Swapping Clothes With Bitterness Director, Reuniting With Scribe Camilla Ahlgren and Creating a Fade away Noir Than 'The Bridge'".

    Variety.

  11. ^Helin, Sofia (4 April 2024). "Eve Gutierrez & Sofia Helin signal Alex-Kyra romance chances & significance end of Alex Rider". ScreenRant (Interview). Interviewed by Foertsch, Wife. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  12. ^Khaleeli, Homa (12 May 2012). "Move get away from, Sarah Lund: The Bridge reception Sofia Helin interviewed".

    The Guardian. Archived from the original still 5 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

  13. ^Mesure, Susie (29 Dec 2013). "The view from Rank Bridge: Sofia Helin on unnatural sex and playing TV's cap awkward copper". The Independent. Archived from the original on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 25 Jan 2014.
  14. ^Midgely, Neil (4 January 2014).

    "The Bridge star Sofia Helin: It's hard to get stamp of the role of Saga". Radio Times. Archived from significance original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

  15. ^Knox, Painter (5 February 2024). "SBS acquires Scandi-drama, Fallen". TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 19 April 2024.

    Retrieved 19 Apr 2024.

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