Rakel Wärmländer

Rakel Wärmländer
Born (1980-10-03) October 3, 1980 (age 45)
Alma materMalmö Theatre Academy
OccupationActress
Years active1996–present
Children2
FatherTom Zacharias [sv]

Rakel Amalia Wärmländer (née Zacharias; born 3 October 1980) is a Swedish actress.

Early life and education

She was born on 3 October 1980 to Tom Zacharias [sv] and Dorotea Wärmländer.[1][2] She lived with her mother and three older brothers. When she was five years old, Dorotea remarried to the then governor of Stockholm, Lennart Sandgren [sv], and the family moved to Tessin Palace.[3]

She started with theater work at the age of nine in the play Kalas i Lönneberga at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.[4] When she was nineteen she moved to New York City and studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for one year.[5] After she returned home to Sweden, she started working at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm with the company Darling Desperados, founded by Ulrika Malmgren.[6] She graduated from Malmö Theatre Academy in 2006.[7]

Career

Wärmländer has worked mostly in television and film. She played in the television mini-series Skuggornas hus (1996) where she played the character Tina.[6] She has also played in shows such as Cleo, Skilda världar and Spung.[6] She acted in the Helena Bergström film Se upp för dårarna, and also Hipphipp!, Itzhaks julevangelium and the Martin Beck film Okänd avsändare.[8][9][10]

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 the Stockholm City Theatre.[11] She performed the voice acting for the character Fio in the animated film Porco Rosso.[12]

She played the lead role in the Swedish feature film Love and Lemons (Swedish: Små citroner gula), which premiered on 20 February 2013.[13] Her real-life friend actress Josephine Bornebusch played her friend in the film.[14] In 2012, she played a role in the Caryl Churchill feminist drama Top Girls at the Stockholm City Theatre.[15] 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.[16] The film premiered on 13 November 2015.[16]

Personal life

She has two daughters with actor Lars Bringås.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Dagens kändis 3 oktober". Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  2. ^ Eijde, Malin (2020-10-03). "Skarpa kontraster är vad Rakel Wärmländer tycker bäst om". TTELA (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-07-11 – via PressReader.
  3. ^ Görnerup, Åsa (2023-02-28). "Rakel Wärmländer: Olyckan i tonåren blev grunden till tv-serien "Limbo"". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  4. ^ Arkivet Rollboken (in Swedish). Dramaten. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. ^ Jacobson, Louise (28 August 2006). "Med skratt och fingrar i halsen". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b c "Rakel Wärmländer" (PDF), actorsagency.se (in Swedish), archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 29 December 2015
  7. ^ Avgångsklassen 2006 (in Swedish), Teaterhögskolan i Malmö, archived from the original on 7 May 2013
  8. ^ "Aftonbladet puls: Vi tar pulsen på Rakel Wärmländer". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Rakel Wärmländer: "När jag var 12 år började jag sluta äta"" (in Swedish). Tjejjouren.se. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  10. ^ "Se upp för dårarna". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  11. ^ Stadsteatern Juloratoriet (in Swedish). Stockholm Stadsteater. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Svenska röster & credits - Porco Rosso". Dubbningshemsidan (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  13. ^ Eriksson, Karoline (19 February 2013). "Recension: Små citroner gula (Film)". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Här är två nya citronstjärnor". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  15. ^ ""Top girls" på Stockholms stadsteater". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  16. ^ a b MovieZine. "Första bilderna från gaykomedin "En underbar jävla jul"". MovieZine. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  17. ^ "Rakel Wärmländer mamma igen", Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish), TT Spektra, 27 February 2013, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 29 December 2015
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