Anne Frida Carolin Stoltz (born 2 May 1981 in
Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 66,273 inhabitants in 2010.
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, Sweden) is a Swedish actress, who is best known for her role as Ukrainian immigrant
Olena Petrovich in the British TV soap ''
Emmerdale''. She has previously had minor TV roles in the British television series ''
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'' and the
ITV
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Christmas special ''
Clash of the Santas'', where she played a German terrorist determined to undermine a 'best Santa' competition. Stoltz trained to be an actress at the
Drama Centre London
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. She appears as Polish hairdresser Ava Lipinski in the Sky1 comedy series
The Café. She played Norwegian police officer Anke Strøm in
Shetland
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(S4). She appeared in the daytime drama ''
Justice in Liverpool''. She has also acted in her native Sweden, doing both theatre and film.
She also appeared in ''
The Inbetweeners Movie''.
As a stage actress, she appeared in the
Agatha Christie
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play ''
Witness for the Prosecution'' at
County Hall, London
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, a former municipal building transformed into a performing arts venue. She also appeared in the play ''
Birdsong'' at
Birmingham Rep.
Stoltz grew up in Borås, Sweden, before moving to Gothenburg. She applied to Balettakademien in Gothenburg, dreaming of a career in musical theatre, but wasn't accepted; this led her to move go the
United Kingdom
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.
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1981 births
Living people
Swedish actresses
Alumni of the Drama Centre London
People from Borås
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