Hannele Lauri

Hannele Lauri

Born: July 21, 1952
in Tampere, Finland
Ritva Hannele Lauri (born July 21, 1952 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a colonel and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979). The couple divorced in 1994. She was briefly married to Teemu Rinne in the early 2000s. After having studied acting in the Theatre School, Hannele Lauri began her professional career in the Jyväskylä City Theatre. The period lasted from 1975 till 1977 after which she worked as a free-lancer till 1981. After a short period in theTurku City Theatre she started her ongoing contract with the Helsinki City Theatre in 1983. Her early stage roles include Ophelia. During the same period she was also cast in the movies directed by Risto Jarva and Jaakko Pakkasvirta.

She got famous in Finland in the 1980s through her collaboration with mr Spede Pasanen. She appeared in popular television productions and comedy feature films created by mr Pasanen and the actor Vesa-Matti Loiri. She has been in the national limelight ever since. In the 1990s she starred in the television comedy series Hynttyyt yhteen ("Moving In Together") together with the comedian Eija Vilpas. In 2003 she portrayed the role of a woman going through her menopause in the comedy series Kuumia aaltoja ("Hot Waves"). In 2010s Hannele Lauri has made several supporting roles in Finnish movies and frequent television appearances along with her stage career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Björklund, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Hannele Lauri...

Palimpsest
Title: Palimpsest
Released: April 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.
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The Unhanged
Title: The Unhanged
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: Movie
The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.
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70 Is Just a Number
Title: 70 Is Just a Number
Character: Seija Kuula
Released: December 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.
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Title: Keihäsmatkat
Character: Sirkka
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Melkein totta
Character: Juulia Leinonen
Released: April 13, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Modernit miehet
Character: Gerli
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Kontio & Parmas
Character: Kyylä
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: TV
Veteran police lieutenant Kontio will have to work closely with a new partner, a much younger female officer Parmas. Small Town Police Department of Valkeakoski, Finland, will never be the same.
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Title: Kontio & Parmas
Character: Pirjo "Kyylä" Kämälä
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: TV
Veteran police lieutenant Kontio will have to work closely with a new partner, a much younger female officer Parmas. Small Town Police Department of Valkeakoski, Finland, will never be the same.
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Varasto 2
Title: Varasto 2
Character: Ritva, Karita's mother
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.
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Man and a Baby
Title: Man and a Baby
Character: Vihanta
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Title: 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Character: Eila Manner
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
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Title: Tehdas
Character: von Glauschen
Released: February 15, 2012
Type: TV
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The Storage
Title: The Storage
Character: Karita's mother
Released: December 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
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Title: Harvoin tarjolla
Character: Merike Vaittinen
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Maan mitta
Character: Raili Aho
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: TV
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Frozen City
Title: Frozen City
Character: Leena
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.
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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Title: Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
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Title: Irtiottoja
Character: Leena
Released: September 29, 2003
Type: TV
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Naisen logiikka
Title: Naisen logiikka
Character: Vieno
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A Finnish comedy seen by under 400 viewers upon original release. Never aired on TV or published on home media.
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Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Title: Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Character: Talousetsivä
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
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Suolaista ja makeaa
Title: Suolaista ja makeaa
Character: Annan äiti
Released: March 17, 1995
Type: Movie
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
Title: Uuno Turhapuron veli
Character: Tarmon anopin sihteeri
Released: August 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
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Kaikki pelissä
Title: Kaikki pelissä
Character: Heidi Ahola
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Title: Marraskuun harmaa valo
Character: Raija Syysmäki
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
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Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
Title: Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
Character: Lehtinainen
Released: August 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
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Puhallus
Title: Puhallus
Character: Suoma
Released: May 7, 1992
Type: Movie
The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Title: Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
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Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Title: Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Character: Gunhild Donnersdotter
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
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Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
Title: Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
Character: Lisbeth
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
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Pikkupojat
Title: Pikkupojat
Character: Valma Rögstrand-Ylä-Liimanen
Released: December 25, 1986
Type: Movie
OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
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Liian iso keikka
Title: Liian iso keikka
Character: Mandi
Released: November 14, 1986
Type: Movie
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Baby Love
Title: Baby Love
Character: Siivousfirman pomo
Released: September 13, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Character: Marina Kaarna
Released: January 11, 1986
Type: TV
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Hei kliffaa hei
Title: Hei kliffaa hei
Character: Marja
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
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Marked
Title: Marked
Released: September 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.
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Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Title: Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Character: Marina Kaarna
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
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Ihmemies
Title: Ihmemies
Released: November 2, 1979
Type: Movie
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Title: Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Character: Tuuran sihteeri
Released: August 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
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Loma
Title: Loma
Character: Brita
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.
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Trust
Title: Trust
Character: Bobrikov's daughter
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
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Ydinvoimaa Loviisasta
Title: Ydinvoimaa Loviisasta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Documentary film by doctor Törhönen.