Sofia Helin is a famous Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in Dalecarlians and for her performance in the Danish-Swedish TV series The Bridge.
Biography
Sofia Margareta Getschenhelm Helin was born on April 25, 1972 in Hovst in Örebro, Nark. She grew up in the family of a salesman and a nurse. As a child, she lost her younger brother, who died in a car accident. Sofia was educated at the University of Lund. In the period from 1994 to 1996, Helin attended the theater school. Calle Flygares. She graduated from the Stockholm Theater Academy in 2001. Helin grew up in Linchem and moved to Stockholm in 2015.
Career
The filmography of the actress includes the picture "Point Blank" in 2003. Her character's name is Clara, this is the main role. In 2004, Helin got the lead role of Mia in the film Masjävlar. For this work, she was nominated for the Guldbagge Award. In 2007, she landed the lead role of Cecilia in the film Algottsdotter. Sofia also voiced the Swedish cartoon Metropia in 2009.
Since 2012, she has become known outside Sweden thanks to the success of the crime drama The Bridge. In this series, Helin played a murder detective from Malmö. In the UK, the series attracted over a million viewers per season. Sofia has been named a role model for women with Asperger's Syndrome. The fourth season of Most began in Sweden and Denmark in January 2018, and in the UK in mid-2018.
In 2015, Sofia starred in the Danish science fiction film Step. She also starred in the British-German television series directed by Hirschbigel, which was filmed in Prague. It tells about the Berlin Wall of the 1970s and is called The Same Sky. On the set, Helin spoke German and English.
Personal life
Helin is married to Daniel Getschenhelm. Her husband is a priest in the Church. Sofia's husband used to be an actor, they met at the theater school. The family has two children: son Ossian and daughter Nike. The actress has a noticeable scar on her face. She got it at the age of 24 after falling off a bicycle.
Filmography
In 1996, she starred in the TV series Rederiet as Minna Lager and in the TV series Anna Holt - polis. Between 1997 and 2005, she starred in the films Commissioner Martin Beck, Sophia Lane, Aspiranterna Anna-Karin, The Brotherhood of Anna, At the Point of Void, Clara, Roughneck, Miyu, Four Shades of Brown, Jenny, The Brothers by blood”Malen.
From 2006 to 2010 she played in the films Sökarna, Nina Frisk, Arn: Knight Templar, Leende guldbruna ögon, Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road, Goda råd, Balladen om Marie Nord och hennes klienter, Arn: Knight Templar . From 2011 to 2017, Sofia played roles in the films Åsa-Nisse - wälkom to Knohult, Svaleskär, The Bridge, The Secret of Ragnarok, The Devil's Outlaw and The Snowman.
