Jessica Grabowsky (born 8 April 1980) is a Finnish actress. She was nominated for the

Jussi Award The Jussi Awards are Finland's premier film industry prizes, awarded annually to recognize the achievements of directors, actors, and writers. History The first Jussi Awards ceremony was held on 16 November 1944 at the Restaurant Adlon in Hels ...

in the category of Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 2011 film ''Missä kuljimme kerran''. In 2014, she was nominated a second time for the Jussi Award in the same category for her lead role in ''

8-pallo ''8-pallo'' ( en, 8-ball) is a 2013 Finnish film directed by Aku Louhimies and based on a crime novel ''Elävien kirjoihin'' by Marko Kilpi. Plot The film tells the story of a single mother Pike ( Jessica Grabowsky) who, having just been release ...

''. Grabowsky graduated from the

Helsinki Theatre Academy The Theatre Academy ( fi, Teatterikorkeakoulu, sv, Teaterhögskolan) is one of the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki and offers education in theatre and dance. It is Finland's largest education provider in its field and, wit ...

in 2007.

Early life

Born in

Siilinjärvi Siilinjärvi () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in Northern Savonia, north of the city of Kuopio, which largely surrounds Siilinjärvi. Another neighbour municipality with Kuopio is Lapinlahti. The name, in Finnish, apparently trans ...

, Grabowsky's family spoke Swedish, as her mother is a

Finland Swede The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names; fi, suomenruotsalainen) can be used as an attribute., group=Note—see #Terminology, below; sv, finlandssvenskar; fi, suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic mi ...

from Ostrobothnia. Her surname is of

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

origin, and she has

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

ancestry through her grandmother, who, along with her mother, escaped from Russia to Finland during the Russian revolution. Before her acting career, Grabowsky worked as a waitress.

Selected filmography

*''Ilonen talo'' (2006) *''

Kotikatu ''Kotikatu'' (''The Home Street'') is a Finnish drama television series which aired on Yle TV1 from August 24, 1995 to December 7, 2012. ''Kotikatu'' was titled as "a semi-soap opera". It is the second longest running Finnish drama television s ...

'' (2009–2010) *''Missä kuljimme kerran'' (2011) *'' Hulluna Saraan'' (2012) *''

'' (2013) *''

Tjockare än vatten ''Thicker Than Water'' (''Tjockare än vatten'') is a television drama produced by Sweden's SVT in cooperation with Finland's Svenska Yle. Most of the action is set in Åland. The show's first season, consisting of ten episodes, was shown in Sw ...

'' (''Thicker than water'', TV series, 2014–2020) *''

Midnattssol ''Midnattssol'' (french: Jour polaire, en, midnight sun) is a Swedish-French police procedural series which aired for one season on Sveriges Television on 2016. As ''Midnight Sun'', the series debuted on Australia's SBS on January 12, 2017. An ...

'' (''Midnight Sun'', 2016) *''

Tom of Finland Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influentia ...

'' (2017) *'' Bordertown'', TV series, (2018–2019)

References

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* 1980 births Living people People from Siilinjärvi Finnish actresses Finnish film actresses Swedish-speaking Finns Finnish people of Polish descent Finnish people of Russian descent 21st-century Finnish actresses {{Finland-actor-stub