Helena Bergström

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Feb 05, 1964 (61 years old)

Helena Bergström

Known For

The Pirate Bay
TV Show 2024

The Pirate Bay

The series tells the remarkable story of how three young men, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, united in the fight for a free internet and founded the download site The Pirate Bay. Their idea of free access to information, music, books and movies would fundamentally change the internet.

Malou möter Helena Bergström
0h 45m
Movie 2024

Malou möter Helena Bergström

Helena Bergström is fearless in the spotlight, but anxiety and worry have accompanied the actor and director her entire life. Helena was only 26 when she met director Colin Nutley, who gave her the lead role in Black Jack, the film that floored Swedish cinema audiences. In a candid interview with Malou von Sivers, the couple talk about what it's like to grow and age together.

Codename: Annika
0h 45m
TV Show 2023

Codename: Annika

Finnish art fraud investigator, Emma, goes undercover to infiltrate an auction house in Stockholm to investigate the firm’s connection to a notorious money launderer known as Blanko. To go undetected, Emma chooses the cover identity Annika, a hot-headed socialite who lives for wild parties, drugs and alcohol and is the opposite of the cool, calm, and collected Emma. By adopting this wild persona, doors begin to open to the hidden world of high-class art fraud. However, becoming Annika means Emma must confront memories from her past that she has tried to forget.

Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen
1h 48m
Movie 2021

Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen

An independent sequel to the TV series. Here we follow the families Öhrn and Seger and take us through autumn and winter on our way to Christmas celebrations and to a New Year's Eve which inevitably means an end to the old and a beginning of something new… A film about love and death and everything in between.

Ture Sventon och jakten på ungdomens källa
0h 25m
TV Show 2021

Ture Sventon och jakten på ungdomens källa

Ture Sventon and the Hunt for the Fountain of Youth takes place at the detective agency in Lingonboda, but during the journey, viewers are taken on a hunt that leads Ture and Matilda Jansson to the Amazon, Rome and Hawaii.

Ture Sventon and the Secrets of The Bermuda Triangle
0h 44m
TV Show 2019

Ture Sventon and the Secrets of The Bermuda Triangle

Swedish family adventure in six parts about the detective Ture Sventon, who takes his neighbor children Siv and Gittan on a dizzying journey. His cunning arch enemy Ville Vessla has escaped from prison and the odd trio must quickly put an end to his horrendous plan. The star-studded cast includes Robert Gustafsson, Johan Glans, Björn Gustafsson and Helena Bergström.

Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms
0h 45m
TV Show 2019

Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

An uncharacteristic slip-up at her daughter's wedding leads a married woman to a most unexpected dilemma.

The Cake General
1h 41m
Movie 2018

The Cake General

Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.

Missing
0h 45m
TV Show 2017

Missing

Police inspector Maja Silver returns to her hometown in the Swedish Bible Belt as a terrible discovery paralyzes the small community.

A Holy Mess
1h 48m
Movie 2015

A Holy Mess

A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.

Biography

Helena Bergström (born 5 February 1964 in Kortedala, Gothenburg) is a Swedish actress. The granddaughter of legendary Swedish actor Olof Widgren and the daughter of Hans Bergström (director) and Kerstin Widgren (actress). Bergström is married to Colin Nutley and is known for playing the female lead in many of his films. Being one of Sweden’s most highly acclaimed stage actresses she has played the lead part in plays like ”Miss Julie”, ”Twelfth Night”, ”Pygmalion”, ”Piaf”, "A Dolls House", the part of Hamlet in “Hamlet”, “Medea” and Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. In the autumn of 2008 she will play the part of Sally Bowles in Stockholm City Theatre’s production of “Cabaret”. Despite being born into a theatrical family, Bergström's childhood dream was to work with animals. Aged 15, she travelled to Mississippi in the US as an exchange student and lived there for a year. During this time, she became fascinated with the theatre and decided that the stage was her calling. Back in Sweden, she won a part in a TV series but failed in her first attempt to achieve a place at stage school. Thanks to tuition from Margreth Weivers, she succeeded on her third attempt in 1985. On graduating from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1988, she worked at both the Dramaten Theatre and the Stockholm City Theatre. Her breakthrough came with the film 1939 in 1989. Colin Nutley spotted her on a poster for the film "Women on the roof" Kvinnorna på taket (1989) and gave her the leading role in his film Blackjack (1990). She was also the obvious choice for his film Änglagård (1992) as well as its sequel ”House of Angels – the Second Summer”. In 1998 she played the part of Astrid in the English production ”Still Crazy” which was to be followed by Colin Nutley’s Oscar-nominated ”Under the Sun” - a film that also received the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival "for the quality of its acting". Winner of several awards including Best Actress at the Swedish Film Awards, the Montreal Film Festival and the 1995 Istanbul Film Festival for her performance in Nutley’s ”The Last Dance”. In 2007 she made her directorial debut with “Mind the Gap” (Se upp för dårarna). Has two children, a son and a daughter, with Nutley.

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