Sophia Helin, a Swedish theater and film actress, was born on April 25, 1972 in the city of Örebro. When the girl was six years old, a misfortune happened in the family - my grandmother and brother died in a car accident. Sophie stayed with her father and mother. Now all the attention of her parents was turned to her. The future actress grew up and did not need anything.
Study
Education Sofia Helin received a versatile. She took a course at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lund University, then studied theater art from 1994 to 1996 at the Kalle Flygare school. At the next stage, she entered the Stockholm Theater Institute and successfully graduated in 2001.
Carier start
Sofia Helin began acting in 1996, however, the roles in low-budget films, more similar to episodic ones, did not bring the actress satisfaction. She gained fame only in 2010, when a film with her participation called "Knight Templar" appeared on the big screen. Her character is Cecilia Algotsdotter, the main female role. The Templar lover Anta must give birth to a child while in the monastery. The drama, directed by Peter Flint in 2007, unfolds in the best sentimental traditions in 1177.
Star role
However, Sofia Helin gained world fame thanks to the role of Saga Noren, a detective from the killer police department of the city of Malmö, the main character in the crime series called "The Bridge". The film began to be shot in 2011, it consisted of three seasons and 30 episodes.
The role of Noren, brilliantly played by the actress, brought her unprecedented popularity. A gloomy woman with a police badge appealed to millions of moviegoers around the world. Saga Noren - a woman without emotions - is the best specialist in the investigation of murders in the city of Malmö and far beyond its borders.
Detective series "Bridge"
“The body of the murdered woman is found on the bridge called Eresund. This fact itself is nothing special if not for one circumstance. The victim lay exactly in the middle between Sweden and Denmark, right on the border. For the murder investigation, thus , took the detectives of both countries.
During the investigation, it turned out that this murder is a continuation of a chain of several similar crimes, the first of which was committed a year ago. Over the past time, the killings have been carried out with frightening regularity, and not one of them has been solved. And recently, an unknown person phoned the journalist of the local popular newspaper Daniel Ferbe and informed about the impending new crime.
All crimes are committed in order to provoke a public outcry and to prove to society that in the two countries bordering each other, Denmark and Sweden, there is an inequality that society is split, divided into rich and poor.
Swedish detective Saga Noren and Danish Martin Rode begin an investigation. The first thing they manage to find out is that each murder was carefully prepared. More details are coming to light soon. The criminal only disguises himself as a fighter for social justice, in fact, he is driven by a thirst for personal revenge.
In season two, events begin with a shipwreck. An uncontrolled ship, abandoned by the team, crashes into the support of the Örsund bridge. A group of terrorists, in the guise of an action to attract public attention to the environmental problem, spreads the plague virus, secretly throws poison onto grocery store shelves, and undermines a stolen fuel truck. Noren and Rohde take up the investigation again.
The third season consists of series, in each of which murders are committed with the subsequent demonstration of bodies in public places. Gradually, the relationship between the victims begins to be traced.
Sofia Helin: filmography
During her artistic career, Sophie starred in fifteen full-length films and several TV shows. Each of her work is interesting in its own way. Sofia Helin, whose films are not super-successful, nevertheless managed to make her modest contribution to the common cause of cinema.
Personal life
Sophie is married, her husband is Daniel Gottshenhelm, a Swedish actor. The couple has two children, a son born in 2003 and a daughter who was born in 2009. Once, in her youth, the actress rode a bicycle and fell unsuccessfully. Since that time, Sofia Helin, the scar from falling, remaining on his upper lip, jokingly calls his decoration. A small mark does not really spoil it.