Rakel Wärmländer

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 City 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.[13]