Rakel Wärmländer

Rakel Wärmländer in the short film Plastpappan

Rakel Amalia Wärmländer, née Zacharias, (born 3 October 1980) is a Swedish actress.[1] She started with theater work at the age of nine in the play Kalas i Lönneberga at Dramaten in Stockholm.[2] When she was nineteen she moved to New York and studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for one year.[3] After she returned home to Sweden, she started working at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm with the company Darling Desperados, founded by Ulrika Malmgren.[4] She graduated from Teaterhögskolan i Malmö in 2006.[5]

Wärmländer has worked mostly in television and film. She played in the television mini-series Skuggornas hus (1996) where she played the character Tina.[4] She has also played in shows such as Cleo, Skilda världar and Spung.[4] She acted in the Helena Bergström film Se upp för dårarna, and also Hipphipp!, Itzhaks julevangelium and the Martin Beck film Okänd avsändare.[1][6][7]

In late 2007, Wärmländer played Pippi Longstocking in the Jonna Nordenskiöld play Pippi Långstrump - världens starkaste, and also the character Tessa in the play Juloratoriet at Stockholms Stadsteater.[8] She performed the voice acting for the character Fio in the animated film Porco Rosso.[9]

She played the lead role in the Swedish feature film Love and Lemons (Swedish: Små citroner gula), which premiered on 20 February 2013.[10] Her real-life friend actress Josephine Bornebusch played her friend in the film.[11] In 2012 she played a role in the Caryl Churchill feminist drama Top Girls at Stockholms Stadsteater.[12] She acted again in a Helena Bergström-directed film in the comedy En underbar jävla jul, where she plays a surrogate mother for her two best friends who are gay and want a child.[13] The film premiered on 13 November 2015.[14]

Wärmländer is the daughter of Tom Zacharias and Dorotea Wärmländer. She has two daughters with actor Lars Bringås.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 "Aftonbladet puls: Vi tar pulsen på Rakel Wärmländer". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Arkivet Rollboken" (in Swedish). Dramaten. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Jacobson, Louise (28 August 2006). "Med skratt och fingrar i halsen". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "Rakel Wärmländer" (PDF) (in Swedish). actorsagency. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Avgångsklassen 2006" (in Swedish). Teaterhögskolan i Malmö. Archived from the original on 7 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Rakel Wärmländer: "När jag var 12 år började jag sluta äta"" (in Swedish). Tjejjouren.se. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Se upp för dårarna". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Stadsteatern Juloratoriet" (in Swedish). Stockholm Stadsteater. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Svenska röster & credits - Porco Rosso". Dubbningshemsidan (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  10. ↑ Eriksson, Karoline (19 February 2013). "Recension: Små citroner gula (Film)". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "Här är två nya citronstjärnor". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  12. ↑ ""Top girls" på Stockholms stadsteater". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  13. ↑ MovieZine. "Första bilderna från gaykomedin "En underbar jävla jul"". MovieZine. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  14. ↑ MovieZine. "Första bilderna från gaykomedin "En underbar jävla jul"". MovieZine. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Rakel Wärmländer mamma igen". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). TT Spektra. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
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