Helena Bergström
Actor/Actriz
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Movies
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TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Skavlan
Self - Guest
Melodifestivalen
Self
Doobidoo
Self
Så ska det låta
Self
BIANCA
Self - Guest
Robins
Self - Guest
The Pirate Bay
Monique Wadsted
Talang
Jury member
Renées brygga
Herself
Guldbaggegalan
Self - Best Actress winner
Stjärnorna på slottet
Self
Vem tror du att du är?
Herself
Hellenius Hörna
Self - Guest
Springfloden
Linn Magnusson
Siempre locos
Astrid Simms
Änglagård
Fanny Zander
Min sanning
Self
Koodinimi: Annika
Agatha Torstensson
Tillsammans med Strömstedts
Herself
Ture Sventon och Bermudatriangelns hemlighet
Fröken Jansson
Vilket liv!
Herself - Huvudgäst
Jägarna
Anna Sivertsson
Luuk & Hallberg
Self
1939
Berit
Tack för musiken
Self
Under solen
Ellen Lind
Saknad
Maja Silver
Den fjärde mannen
Stein
Livet är en schlager
Mona Berglund
Friends
Bonnie
Behind the Camera
Kulkuset kulkuset
Original Film Writer
Så olika
Director
Dancing Queens
Escritor, Director
Bröllop, begravning & dop
Escritor
En underbar jävla jul
Director, Escritor
Vilken jävla cirkus
Director, Escritor
Se upp för dårarna
Director, Escritor
Julie
Director, Guionista
Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen
Guionista
No More F*cks To Give
Director