Tanja Mirjam Cecilia Lorentzon (
née
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Tanja Mirjam Cecilia Koukonen; born 25 September 1971), previously known as Tanja Svedjeström, is a
Sweden-Finnish actress and dramatist of
Finnish descent. Internationally, she is probably best known for her role of Sonja Modig in ''
The Girl Who Played with Fire'' and ''
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'', film adaptations of the
''Millennium'' series by
Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and far-left activist. He is best known for writing the ''Millennium'' trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, sta ...
.
Early and personal life
Lorentzon was born in
Tumba,
Stockholm County,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
, to
Finnish parents. In her youth, Lorentzon worked as an engineer in the
Ericsson, Inc., a cleaner and a teacher before entering the
Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1994. She earned her
bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...
in 1998.
Lorentzon currently lives in
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
with her husband and their three daughters.
Writing career
In 2010, Lorentzon debuted as a
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
with her
monologue
In theatre, a monologue (also known as monolog in North American English) (in , from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts ...
play ''Grandmother's Dark Eyes'' (
Swedish: ''Mormors mörka ögon''), in which she played all three characters — herself, her mother and her grandmother. The plays follows lives of . In December 2010, ''Grandmother's Dark Eyes'' was broadcast on the
STV.
The following year, Lorentzon was awarded with the P7 Sisuradio Award for Swedish Finn of the Year for her work on ''Grandmother's Dark Eyes''.
Filmography
Writing
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1971 births
20th-century Swedish actresses
21st-century Swedish actresses
Living people
People from Tumba, Sweden
Actresses from Stockholm County
Swedish people of Finnish descent
Swedish screenwriters
Swedish women screenwriters