Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm Helin (born 25 April 1972) is a Swedish
actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in
Dalecarlians, and stars 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 10 days old, her grandmother
and her six-year-old brother were in a car accident; her grandmother
survived, but her brother was killed. From 1994-1996, she went to
Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre
Academy in 2001. She was brought up in Linghem, outside Linköping but
in 2015 was living in Stockholm.Helin played the leading role of Chief
Inspector Klara in the film At Point Blank (RÃ¥narna) in 2003. In
2004, she took the leading role of Mia in Masjävlar, and was
nominated for a Guldbagge award. In 2007 she played 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).She became famous outside Sweden after
2012, when the first series of the highly successful TV crime drama
series The Bridge went to air. In it, she played Saga Norén, a
homicide detective from Malmö. In the UK, the series attracted more
than a million viewers per episode, and she was called a role model
for women with Asperger syndrome. The fourth season of the series
aired in 2018.
actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in
Dalecarlians, and stars 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 10 days old, her grandmother
and her six-year-old brother were in a car accident; her grandmother
survived, but her brother was killed. From 1994-1996, she went to
Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre
Academy in 2001. She was brought up in Linghem, outside Linköping but
in 2015 was living in Stockholm.Helin played the leading role of Chief
Inspector Klara in the film At Point Blank (RÃ¥narna) in 2003. In
2004, she took the leading role of Mia in Masjävlar, and was
nominated for a Guldbagge award. In 2007 she played 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).She became famous outside Sweden after
2012, when the first series of the highly successful TV crime drama
series The Bridge went to air. In it, she played Saga Norén, a
homicide detective from Malmö. In the UK, the series attracted more
than a million viewers per episode, and she was called a role model
for women with Asperger syndrome. The fourth season of the series
aired in 2018.
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