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List Of Finns
This is a list of notable people from Finland. Finland is a Nordic country located between Sweden, Norway and Russia. Actors *Ida Aalberg (1858–1915) * Miica Patrick Johannes Ruohonen *Jouko Ahola * Joalin Loukamaa *Olavi Ahonen *Irina Björklund *Anna Easteden *Samuli Edelmann *Peter Franzén *George Gaynes (1927–2019) *Gina Goldberg * Ville Haapasalo *Anna-Leena Härkönen *Ansa Ikonen * Anni-Kristiina Juuso * Kata Kärkkäinen *Krista Kosonen *Marta Kristen *Mikko Leppilampi *Vesa-Matti Loiri * Masa Niemi * Maila "Vampira" Nurmi * Kati Outinen *Jasper Pääkkönen * Turo Pajala *Tauno Palo (1905–1982) * Pertti "Spede" Pasanen (1930–2001) *Matti Pellonpää (1951–1995) * Lasse Pöysti *Pentti Siimes *Maria Silfvan (1800–1865), possibly Finland's first actress *Markku Toikka Architects *Aino Aalto (1894–1949) *Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) *Marco Casagrande (born 1971) *Herman Gesellius (1874–1916) * Elna Kiljander (1889–1970) *Juha Leiviskä (born 1936) *Yrj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kata Kärkkäinen
Katariina Souri (born Minna Katariina "Kata" Kärkkäinen; 27 October 1968) is a Finnish author, artist, columnist and '' Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for December, 1988. She has been a writer after her brief Playboy career. On January 25, 2010, Kata Kärkkäinen announced that she changed her name to Katariina Souri. Katariina Souri married Finnish rock musician Anzi Destruction in 2010. The couple divorced in 2012 but continued living together.MTV3, 05.02.2013Katariina Souri ja rokkari: Avioerosta huolimatta avoliitto/ref> Novels *''Minä ja Morrison'', 1999. Also a feature film A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ... (2001). *''Vangitse minut vapaaksi'', 2001. *''Tulikärpäsiä'', 2004. (autobiographical) *''Jumalasta seuraava'', 2006. *''Kahdeksas huone'', 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Pöysti
Lasse Erik Pöysti (24 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer. He was born in Sortavala. Biography Pöysti began his career as a child actor, becoming known to the Finnish public as Olli Suominen in the "Suominen family" films. The first of these films as '' Suomisen perhe'' (1941). Pöysti was 14 years old at the time of the film. Pöysti matriculated in 1945 in the Helsinki Normal Lyceum. From 1967 to 1974, Pöysti served as manager of the Lilla Teatern, with ex-wife Birgitta Ulfsson, and also acted in many roles in Swedish. During 1974–1981 he was the manager of the Tampere Workers' Theatre, and during 1981–1985 the manager of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In his later career he has had many speaking roles in musical plays. He also had many roles on television, including the leading roles in the Strindberg plays ''Gustav III'' ( fi, Kustaa III) and ''Erik XIV''. Another performance was the title role in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Pellonpää
Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was a Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them. Career He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 1970s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977. He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in ''La Vie de Boheme'' and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film '' Night on Earth''. His private life melded seamlessly with his acting work. He was considered a natural bohemian, and a genuine everyman without ego. He frequently used his own life as a basis for his acting, eschewing wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spede Pasanen
Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen (10 April 1930 – 7 September 2001) was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor. During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy ''Spede Show'' and the game-show ''Speden Spelit''. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri (whose most popular character created by Pasanen was Uuno Turhapuro; first in TV sketches and then in a long-lasting series of motion pictures) and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Childhood and youth Pertti Olavi Pasanen was born in April 1930 in Kuopio. He was the eldest child of Kusti and Helmi Pasanen (née Rantala). His father was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tauno Palo
Tauno Valdemar Palo (born Tauno Brännäs; 25 October 1908 – 24 May 1982) was a Finnish actor and singer in what some consider the golden age of Finnish cinema. In ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland'' Peter von Bagh names Palo as the most renowned, the best-loved, and quite indisputably the greatest and the best actor of Finnish cinema. His skill to combine lightweight and youthful charm with heavyweight acting was seen most clearly in the theatre. His most famous roles were perhaps in ''Kulkurin valssi'' ("The Vagabond's Waltz"), and ''Vaimoke'' ("Surrogate Wife"). He appeared with actress/singer Birgit Kronström in the 1941 romantic comedy "Onnellinen ministeri" ("The Lucky Cabinet Minister"), which included the famous song "Katupoikien laulu", remade by other Finnish pop singers including Katri Helena. Life and career Palo was born in Hämeenlinna as Tauno Brännäs, but changed his name to Tauno Palo in 1935. He was of partial Russian descent through his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turo Pajala
Turo Pajala (16 November 1955 − 28 February 2007) was a Finnish actor. Pajala played the leading role as an unemployed coal miner Taisto Kasurinen in an Aki Kaurismäki film '' Ariel'', and won the Bronze St. George award for Best Actor at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival The 16th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 July 1989. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Italian film '' The Icicle Thief'' directed by Maurizio Nichetti. Jury * Andrzej Wajda (Poland – President of the Jury) * Ge .... He also played many supporting roles in films and on television. Pajala's personal life took a downturn after ''Ariel'', when he withdrew from the public eye. He made his final film appearance in 1998 in a Joona Tena film ''Kulkurin taivas''. His final work in television came in 2007 with the role of a Christmas tree salesman in a television series ''Taivaan tulet''. Turo Pajala's father Erkki Pajala (1929–1992) was also an actor. He had one daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper Pääkkönen
Joona Jasper Pääkkönen (; born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish film actor and entrepreneur. Following a two-decade-plus career in Finnish movies, Pääkkönen's international breakthrough role came in 2015 in the historical drama television series ''Vikings'' (2016–2018; 2020) as Halfdan the Black. His next roles were in Spike Lee's comedy-drama film ''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) and in the war drama film '' Da 5 Bloods'' (2020). Early life Pääkkönen was born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of actor Seppo Pääkkönen and Virve Havelin. His uncle Antti Pääkkönen is also an actor, and is a prolific voice actor. Already as a child, Pääkkönen was a theater assistant and attended Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts in Kallio, Helsinki. When Pääkkönen was 17, he spent a year in Maryland as an exchange student at Baltimore’s Owings Mills High School during the 1997–98 school year. Career Pääkkönen's first film role was in ''The Glory and Misery of Human Life' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kati Outinen
Anna Katriina "Kati" Outinen (born 17 August 1961) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "''turkkalaisuus''" school of acting methodology. Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film '' Täältä tullaan elämä'' (1980) by Tapio Suominen. In 1984, she appeared in '' Aikalainen''. Besides a strong domestic reputation gained through a widely varied list of roles in theater and television drama, film director Aki Kaurismäki's films have brought Outinen international attention and even adulation, particularly in Germany and France. Her first work together with Kaurismäki was '' Shadows in Paradise'' in 1986. At the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Outinen won the award for Best Actress for the Kaurismäki film ''The Man Without a Past' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maila Nurmi
Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American actress who created the campy 1950s character Vampira. She was raised in Astoria, Oregon, where she worked in tuna and salmon canneries. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1940, with hopes of becoming an actress. After several minor film roles, she found success with her Vampira character, television's first horror host. Nurmi hosted her own series, '' The Vampira Show'', from 1954 to 1955, on KABC-TV. After the show's cancellation, she appeared in the 1959 cult film '' Plan 9 from Outer Space'', directed by Ed Wood. She is also billed as Vampira in the 1959 film '' The Beat Generation'', where she appears out of character and instead plays a beatnik poet. Nurmi also appeared in the 1959 crime film '' The Big Operator''. She was portrayed by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's 1994 biopic, ''Ed Wood''. Early life Maila Nurmi was born to Onni Niemi (earlier Syrjäni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masa Niemi
Martti "Masa" Elis Niemi (20 July 1914 – 3 May 1960) was a Finnish actor. Career Niemi started his career as a drummer, but became popular as a comedian. He is most famous for his role as "Pätkä" (in English: Stub) in all thirteen original '' Pekka and Pätkä'' movies, with Esa Pakarinen as Pekka Puupää, Pätkä's best friend. Personal life Masa Niemi was only 154 cm tall (about 5 feet ½ inch), but he is said to have drunk at least a bottle and a half of Koskenkorva hard liquor every day. In addition to alcoholism, he also suffered from severe stage fright and disturbance of mental health. His alcoholism increased over time, and he eventually had to undergo rehabilitation. In 1960, he committed suicide in Tampere from an overdose of sleeping pills. Filmography * ''Suviyön salaisuus'' (1945) * ''Kipparikvartetti'' (1952) * ''Lentävä kalakukko'' (1953) * ''Pekka Puupää {{Unreferenced, date=August 2020 Pekka Puupää is a Finland, Finnish text comics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesa-Matti Loiri
Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. According to Yle News, ″Loiri was one of Finland's most beloved cultural figures over six decades, playing comic and tragic roles on screen and stage, alongside a musical career″. Life and career Loiri was born in Helsinki on 4 January 1945 to Taito Loiri (1911–1995) and Lily Nylund (1916–2013), and the family moved to North Haaga when Loiri was a child. Loiri became an actor in 1962, when he had a role in the movie '' Pojat'', directed by Mikko Niskanen, and graduated from the Finnish Theatre Academy, now the Uniarts Helsinki theatre academy, in 1966. Loiri did his most recognised work with comedian-director-producer Spede Pasanen, starting from '' Noin seitsemän veljestä''. Spede and Loiri also developed his highly popular Uuno Turhapuro per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
