Anna "Vera" Vitali (born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish actress and playwright, who stars as Lisa in the drama series ''
Bonus Family''.
Biography
Anna Vera Vitali was born October 3, 1981 in
Stockholm. Vera Vitali grew up in a film family. Her father
Leon Vitali
Alfred Leon Vitali (26 July 1948 – 19 August 2022) was an English actor, best known for his collaborations with film director, Stanley Kubrick, as his personal assistant, and as an actor, most notably as Lord Bullingdon in ''Barry Lyndon''.
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worked as
Stanley Kubrick's production assistant and also starred in his last films. Her mother, Kersti Vitali, has worked as a costumier for a number of large Swedish films, musicals and theater productions. Through her father's work, she visited the
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
set of Kubrick's film ''
Full Metal Jacket''. Her brother Max Vitali is also an actor.
She studied acting at Stockholms Elementära Teaterskola, and she also studied in
New York. She acted in the premiere of the play ''Bageriet'' at the
Orion Theatre
The Orion Theatre (Swedish: ''Orionteatern'') is a theater located at Katarina Bangata 77 in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. Orion theater was founded in 1983 and is the city's largest avant-garde stage.
History
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in 2007. In 2009 she wrote the comical monologue ''Vilja vara Vera Vitali''. In 2008 she made her film debut in
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund (born 13 April 1974) is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his black comedic and satirical films ''Force Majeure'' (2014), '' The Square'' (2017) and '' Triangle of Sadness'' (2022), all of which received largely positive reviews an ...
's film ''
De ofrivilliga''. She has acted in films such as ''Hela havet stormar'' (2009) and ''
Cornelis'' (2010), ''Människor utan betydelse'' and the main role in Fijona Jonuzi's award-winning short film ''Girl'' (2011).
Vitali played the
lead role in the
Sveriges Television mini-series ''Hinsehäxan'', in addition to her roles in ''
Bonus Family'' and
Arne Dahl's ''A-gruppen''.
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Living people
1981 births
21st-century Swedish actresses
Actresses from Stockholm
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