''Barracuda Queens'' is a Swedish

heist A heist is a robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. Heist may also refer to: Places *Heist, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein *Heist-aan-Zee, West Flanders, Belgium *Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, ...

drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

television series created by Camilla Ahlgren. It was released internationally on

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on 5 June 2023.

Premise

After spending all of their money on partying, a group of four upper-class teenagers begin burglarizing homes in

Djursholm Djursholm () is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area. Djursholm is divided into a number of different areas: Djurshol ...

Cast

* as Lollo Millkvist * as Mia Thorstensson * Tindra Monsen as Klara Rapp * Sandra Zubovic as Frida Rapp * as Amina Khalil *

Izabella Scorupco Izabella Scorupco (born Izabela Dorota Skorupko; 4 June 1970) is a Polish-born Swedish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film '' GoldenEye''. She is also known for h ...

as Margareta Millkvist *

Johannes Bah Kuhnke Kjell Dietrich Johannes Bah Kuhnke, (''né'' Kuhnke; born 17 April 1972) is a Swedish actor and singer. He has acted in several films and received international attention in 2014 for his role in the film '' Force Majeure''. In 2010, he participa ...

as Claes Rapp *

Carsten Bjørnlund Carsten Bjørnlund (born 28 June 1973) is a Danish theatre, film and television actor. Bjørnlund's first leading film role was Rasmus in 2008's ''One-Way Ticket to Korsør''. He played one of the leading characters in the second series of '' F ...

as Lars Millkvist * as Calle Millkvist *

Mirja Turestedt Mirja Viveka Turestedt (born 24 September 1972 in Borås (grew up in Malmö and Gothenburg)) is a Swedish actress. Turestedt studied at Gothenburg Theatre Academy 1998–2002. She appeared in ''Slott i Sverige'' at the Royal Dramatic Theat ...

as Viveca Rapp * Editha Domingo as Trisha * as Laila Khalil * as Cecilia Thorstensson * Gino Estéra as Farshid Khalil * as Magnus Thorstensson * as Carl-Johan von Schmigel

Episodes

Production

The series is loosely based on the real-life Lidingö League, a group of men who burglarized houses in

Lidingö Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It ...

and

Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (''Danderyds kommun''; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it ...

. Production began in June 2022.

References

External links

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Barracuda Queens
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