Helena Bergström

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1964-02-05 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Kortedala, Gothenburg, Sweden

Also Known As Helena Kristina Bergström, Helena Bergström Nutley

Helena Bergström

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

BlackJack 2

as Ingrid Forsberg

2024
The Pirate Bay

as Monique Wadsted

2023
Codename: Annika

as Agatha Torstensson

2022
BIANCA

as Self - Guest

2019
2018
The Cake General

as Dyr-Gunilla

2017
Missing

as Maja Silver

2016
Springfloden

as Linn Magnusson

2015
A Holy Mess

as Carina

2015
Renées brygga

as Herself

2014
Medicine

as Johanna

2014
2012
Min sanning

as Self

2011
Somewhere Else

as Annell

2011
2010
Hellenius Hörna

as Self - Guest

2009
Skavlan

as Self - Guest

2008
Ernst-Hugo

as Self

2008
Angel

as Angelica “Angel” Holst

2008
Selma

as Selma Lagerlöf

2007
Sweden's Got Talent

as Jury member

2006
Heartbreak Hotel

as Elisabeth Staf

2006
Robins

as Self - Guest

2005
Doobidoo

as Self

2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

as Nancy Ackerman / Emily Bradley

2003
Paradiset

as Annika Bengtzon

2002
Mrs Klein

as Melitta Klein

2001
Deadline

as Annika Bengtzon

2001
Se mig!

as Self

2000
Gossip

as Stella Lindberg

2000
Once in a Lifetime

as Mona Berglund

1998
Under the Sun

as Ellen Lind

1998
Still Crazy

as Astrid Simms

1997
1996
Such Is Life

as Tin-Tin Matsson

1996
The Hunters

as Anna Sivertsson

1993
The Last Dance

as Tove Särlefalk

1993
Pariserhjulet

as Kickan

1992
House of Angels

as Fanny Zander

1990
BlackJack

as Ingrid Forsberg

1989
1939

as Berit

1989
Husbonden

as Dora

1989
Ängel

as Åsa

1988
VD

as Anna

1987
Friends

as Bonnie

1981
The Guldbagge Awards

as Self - Best Actress winner

1959

Writer

2022
Kulkuset kulkuset

as Original Film Writer

2021
Dancing Queens

as Writer

2017
2015
A Holy Mess

as Writer

2013
Julie

as Screenplay

2007

Director

2021
Dancing Queens

as Director

2020
2017
2015
A Holy Mess

as Director

2013
Julie

as Director

2009
So Different

as Director

2007