Person Details

Birthday: 1964-02-05 08:35:39

Aliases: Helena Kristina Bergström , Helena Bergström Nutley

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Kortedala, Gothenburg, Sweden

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Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helena Bergström, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Most Famous Work

Melodifestivalen
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4

Melodifestivalen

(1959) Self
Så ska det låta
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5

Så ska det låta

(1997) Self
Doobidoo
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7

Doobidoo

(2005) Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
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10

Who Do You Think You Are?

(2009) Herself
Stjärnorna På Slottet
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7
Min sanning
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10

Min sanning

(2012) Self
Sweden's Got Talent
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9

Sweden's Got Talent

(2007) Jury member
The Guldbagge Awards
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6

The Guldbagge Awards

(1981) Self - Best Actress winner

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Agatha Torstensson
2022 Self - Guest
2021 Grace Öhrn
Matilda Jansson
2019 Self
N/A
2018 Dyr-Gunilla
2017 Herself
Maja Silver
2016 Self
2015 Carina
Herself
2014 Stein
Johanna
2012 Self
2011 Annell
Self
2010 Fanny Zander
Guest
2009 Herself
Self - Guest
2008 Self
Selma Lagerlöf
Angelica “Angel” Holst
2007 Jury member
2006 Guest
Elisabeth Staf
Self
2005 Self
2004 Nancy Ackerman / Emily Bradley
2003 Annika Bengtzon
2002 Melitta Klein
2001 Annika Bengtzon
Self
Self
2000 Stella Lindberg
Mona Berglund
1998 Ellen Lind
Astrid Simms
1997 Self
1996 Tin-Tin Matsson
Anna Sivertsson
1994 Fanny Zander
1993 Tove Särlefalk
Kickan
1992 Fanny Zander
1990 Ingrid Forsberg
1989 Berit
Dora
Anna
Åsa
1988 Anna
Bonnie
1981 Self
Self - Best Actress winner
1959 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Directing


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