Elena Leeve

Elena Leeve

Born: February 1, 1983
in Helsinki, Finland
Elena Maire Karin Leeve (born 1 February 1983 in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress who has worked on television, in films and on stage. Leeve started acting at the age of seven and got her first major role as Anna Brown in Kuusikko ja kuoleman varjot (1997) TV series when she was 14 years old.

She graduated from Helsinki Theater academy in 2006 as a Master of Arts.

Movies for Elena Leeve...

Title: Utö
Character: Maria
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: TV
An idyllic island in the Finnish Archipelago is suddenly cut off from outside world, as a mysterious force takes over. Without food, electricity or safety, the islanders are faced with their deepest fears. What will you do to survive?
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The Hullabaloos!
Title: The Hullabaloos!
Character: Poliisipäällikkö Rimminen
Released: December 28, 2022
Type: Movie
The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, sea and air.
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Kikka!
Title: Kikka!
Character: Paula
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
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Resistant
Title: Resistant
Character: Säde Pekurinen (voice)
Released: September 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection and peace, and received support for his actions around the world. However, his worldview collided with the nationalist and militaristic atmosphere of the era in Finland. He was considered a troublemaker, a traitor, and a caricature of masculinity. The film is a universal and timeless account of a man persecuted for his opinions. At the same time, it is a description of the weak tolerance of young independent Finland towards dissidents. Pekurinen was executed during the Continuation War by his compatriots on November 5, 1941.
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Title: Detective Maria Kallio
Character: Maria Kallio
Released: August 19, 2021
Type: TV
Maria Kallio is a Finnish police series based on the novels of the same name by Leena Lehtolainen.
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Sihja - The Rebel Fairy
Title: Sihja - The Rebel Fairy
Character: Riia
Released: May 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy who leaves her home in the forest. On arrival in the city, she meets a sensitive new friend, a lonely human boy Alfred. Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that the city people have. One day dead birds appear on the city streets. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening the nature.
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Laughing Matters
Title: Laughing Matters
Character: Maria
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Recently unemployed and feeling a little bit lost, Maria takes part in stand-up class and ends up on a competition tour for novice comedians.
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Title: At Home - Finland
Character: Tiia
Released: July 19, 2020
Type: TV
Isolated is an antology of short films made by seven Finnish film directors during the covid-19 pandemic. The films are about encountering oneself in isolation. People feel loneliness and it erupts in absurd ways. Family members witness unexpected reactions during the crisis.
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Title: Kakarat
Character: Emilia
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: TV
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Täydellinen joulu
Title: Täydellinen joulu
Character: Outi
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Woman whom have kids with 4 different guys invites her ex-husbands and kids to Christmas party.
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Title: M/S Romantic
Character: Eeva
Released: February 24, 2019
Type: TV
One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.
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Title: Arctic Circle
Character: Alma Hamari
Released: December 21, 2018
Type: TV
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within the endless white expanse of the arctic circle, Nina and Thomas must rely on each other to have any hope of saving the ones they love. But what takes precedence? A deadly virus or an active serial killer?
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Title: Sunnuntailounas
Character: Eevi
Released: March 29, 2018
Type: TV
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Liar Girl
Title: Liar Girl
Character: Teacher
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Liina lives together with her mother. Her mother is often working night shifts so Liina needs to get by alone. In the same building is an apartment where a man died some time ago. One morning Liina hears a dog barking inside the apartment. Liina makes up a story about the dog and tells it to everyone the following day. A nightly rendezvous in the dead man’s apartment turns Liina’s stories true.
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The Mine
Title: The Mine
Character: Eeva
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
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Title: Replacements
Character: Sofia Sivenius
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: TV
This emotion-packed hospital drama asks a bold question: How far are you ready to go to save your loved one? Are you capable of doing bad things to achieve something good? How far could you bend your morality to save the life of your nearest and dearest? This hospital is pushing the envelope.
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Seamstress
Title: Seamstress
Character: Mirjam Koskinen (voice)
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.
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Distractions
Title: Distractions
Character: Leena Niemi / Saara / kurkistava naama / Miia / St. Elfeda
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
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Latch
Title: Latch
Character: Hevostenhoitaja
Released: November 20, 2013
Type: Movie
The distance from the nearest star to Earth is one hundred and fifty million kilometres. As long seems to be the journey to another human being.
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August Fools
Title: August Fools
Character: Minni
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
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Risto
Title: Risto
Character: Inka
Released: November 25, 2011
Type: Movie
The beloved actor Risto gets paralyzed - quadriplegiac - in a studio accident. The accident brings him massive financial compensation and a flood of sympathy. Suddenly there is money for everything that Risto's young and beautiful wife has always wanted. She gives up her boring job and becomes an artist.
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Dinner for One
Title: Dinner for One
Character: Nainen
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Juhani goes to meet his new girlfriend. Juhani soon realizes that he is trapped in a woman's apartment, as her prisoner.
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Gimme Some Respect
Title: Gimme Some Respect
Character: Suski
Released: June 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Young Siiri is starting her life on her own. She wants to be independent and live a normal life, although she is mentally handicapped. She begins to make true of her dreams, where she has a real working place and she hopes to find also a husband.
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Title: Putous
Released: January 9, 2010
Type: TV
Finnish sketch comedy television show.
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On Thin Ice
Title: On Thin Ice
Character: Laura
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. Hans hires Samu to go on a mission with him: to find Laura, the daughter of his recently deceased best friend and brother in arms. The quest to find Laura leads the men around the wintry city, to places and people from Hans's past. As Samu watches Hans confront his past, he begins to open his eyes to his own future. When the eventful mission reaches its end, both of the men's lives are forever changed.
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Falling Angels
Title: Falling Angels
Character: Helena
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
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Sauna
Title: Sauna
Character: Host’s Daughter (voice)
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
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Title: Harvoin tarjolla
Character: Marina Salojoki
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Antiikkieno
Character: Emma
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: TV
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The Year of the Wolf
Title: The Year of the Wolf
Character: Lotan ääni (voice)
Released: February 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."
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Beauty and the Bastard
Title: Beauty and the Bastard
Character: Mari
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
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Miehen sydän
Title: Miehen sydän
Character: Jenna Salomaa
Released: December 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Harri, a usually calm middle-aged man, loses his temper at a bar. His behavior towards the bartender Raija weighs on his mind, so he returns to make things up to her. This ends up being the catalyst for an unlikely and unwitting relationship between the two.
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Aita
Title: Aita
Character: Saija
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.
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Cyclomania
Title: Cyclomania
Character: Oona
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
K and Eetu are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona is coming to work in same courier company.
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Ken tulta pyytää
Title: Ken tulta pyytää
Character: Jemina, Marjukan tytär
Released: February 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Kassaneiti
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Fire-Eater
Title: Fire-Eater
Character: Helena 14 Years
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...