Sofia Helin
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Sofia Margareta Helin 25 April 1972 Hovsta, Sweden |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Götschenhjelm |
Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm Helin (born 25 April 1972) is a Swedish actress known for the Guldbagge Award nomination for her role in Dalecarlians (Swedish: Masjävlar) and as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron).
Sofia Helin was born in Hovsta in Örebro, Närke. Her father was a salesman and her mother was a nurse. When she was ten days old, her grandmother and her six-year-old brother were in a car accident; her grandmother survived, but her brother was killed. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from Lund University. From 1994-1996, she went to Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the in 2001. She was brought up in Linghem, outside Linköping but in 2015 was living in .
Her films include At Point Blank (Rånarna) (2003) playing the leading role of Chief Inspector Klara. In 2004, she took the leading role of Mia in Masjävlar, and she was nominated for a Guldbagge award. Followed by, in 2007, 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).
Since 2012, she has become famous outside Sweden as a result of the successful three crime drama series, The Bridge, in which she played Saga Norén, the homicide detective from Malmö. In the UK, the series attracted more than a million viewers per episode and she has been called a role model for women with autism. She said she would play in a fourth series.
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