Sofia Helin Explained

Sofia Helin
Birth Name:Sofia Margareta Helin
Birth Date:25 April 1972
Birth Place:Hovsta, Örebro, Sweden
Occupation:Actress
Spouse:Daniel Götschenhjelm
Children:2

Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm-Helin (born 25 April 1972) is a Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in Dalecarlians, and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron).

Early life and education

Sofia Helin was born in Hovsta in Örebro, Närke. Her father was a salesman and her mother was a nurse.[1] When she was 10 days old, her grandmother and her six-year-old brother were in a car accident; her grandmother survived, but her brother was killed.[2] From 1994 to 1996, she went to Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre Academy in 2001. She was brought up in Linghem, near Linköping but in 2015 was living in Stockholm.[3]

Career

Helin played the leading role of Chief Inspector Klara in the film At Point Blank (Rånarna) in 2003. In 2004, she took the leading role of Mia in Masjävlar, and was nominated for a Guldbagge award. In 2007 she played the leading role of Cecilia Algottsdotter in Arn, an adaptation of Jan Guillou's The Knight Templar, about Arn Magnusson. She also featured in the Swedish animated film Metropia (2009).

She became famous outside Sweden after 2012, when the first series of the highly successful TV crime drama series The Bridge went to air. In it, she played Saga Norén, a homicide detective from Malmö.[4] In the UK, the series attracted more than a million viewers per episode, and she was called a role model for women with Asperger syndrome.[5] [6] The fourth season of the series aired in 2018.

In 2015, she starred in a Danish science fiction film called Fang Rung.[7] In the same year, she acted in a British/German TV series directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, about divided Berlin in the 1970s, called The Same Sky, in which she spoke in both German and English. The series was shot in Prague.[8]

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

Personal life

Helin is married to Daniel Götschenhjelm, a priest in the Church of Sweden and former actor whom she met at drama school.[6] She has two children: a son, Ossian, aged and a daughter, Nike, aged (as of).[10] Helin is a Christian.[3]

Helin has a facial scar resulting from a cycling accident when she was 24.[11] [12]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. News: Sofia Helin – the star who turned Saturday night into Scandi-night . Thomson . Alice . Sylvester . Rachel . 1 February 2014 . . 4 February 2014 . subscription . 1 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201133445/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/tv-radio/article3992299.ece . live .
  2. News: Sofia Helin: My Family Values . Lewis . Roz . 1 January 2016 . . 2 January 2016 . 2 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160102042740/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/01/sofia-helin-my-family-values . live .
  3. Web site: Agorelius . Monika . Meet Sofia Helin – star of crime series 'The Bridge' . 13 December 2015 . . Scandinavian Traveller . 30 October 2015 . 11 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190411224216/https://scandinaviantraveler.com/en/people/meet-sofia-helin-star-of-crime-series-the-bridge . live .
  4. Dowell . Ben . The Bridge's Sofia Helin: my love/hate relationship with Saga Noren . 7 December 2015 . Radio Times . 21 November 2015 . 30 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151130004615/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-21/the-bridges-sofia-helin-my-lovehate-relationship-with-saga-noren . live .
  5. Web site: Townsend . Lucy . How The Bridge's heroine became a role model for women with Autism . 9 December 2015 . BBC News . 9 December 2015 . 27 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190427070201/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-34995327 . live .
  6. News: Williams . Sally . The Bridge's Sofia Helin: 'Playing Saga is like a vice gripping my body' . 29 November 2015 . . 28 November 2015 . 29 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151129055700/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12012627/The-Bridges-Sofia-Helin-Playing-Saga-is-like-a-vice-gripping-my-body.html . live .
  7. Barraclough . Leo . Global Screen Acquires Sci-fi Thriller ‘Fang Rung’ Starring ‘The Bridge’ Actress Sofia Helin . 14 December 2015 . . 1 June 2015 . 22 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222165100/http://variety.com/2015/film/global/global-screen-acquires-sci-fi-thriller-fang-rung-starring-the-bridge-actress-sofia-helin-1201509201/ . live .
  8. Web site: Pham . Annika . Sofia Helin: "A role has to turn me on" . 14 December 2015 . Nordisk Film & TV Fond . 25 September 2015 . 22 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222102631/http://www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/index.php/news/stories/sofia-helin-role-has-turn-me/ . live .
  9. Web site: Buckmaster . Luke . Mystery Road season two review – a new riddle for Aaron Pedersen's troubled detective . The Guardian . 15 April 2020 . 19 April 2020 . 18 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418234937/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/15/mystery-road-season-two-review-a-new-riddle-for-aaron-pedersens-troubled-detective . live .
  10. The Bridge star Sofia Helin: It's hard to get out of the role of Saga . Midgely . Neil . 4 January 2014 . . 4 February 2014 . 12 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150112171529/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-01-04/the-bridge-star-sofia-helin-its-hard-to-get-out-of-the-role-of-saga . live .
  11. News: Move over, Sarah Lund: The Bridge star Sofia Helin interviewed . Khaleeli . Homa . 12 May 2012 . The Guardian . 11 January 2014 . 5 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140105141543/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/may/12/bridge-sofia-helin-saga-interview . live .
  12. News: The view from The Bridge: Sofia Helin on weird sex and playing TV's most awkward copper . Mesure . Susie . 29 December 2013 . . 25 January 2014 . 23 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140123030821/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-view-from-the-bridge-sofia-helin-on-weird-sex-and-playing-tvs-most-awkward-copper-9016735.html . live .
  13. Web site: Knox . David . SBS acquires Scandi-drama, Fallen. . TV Tonight . 5 February 2024 . 19 April 2024 . 19 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240419133103/https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/02/sbs-acquires-scandi-drama-fallen.html . live .

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