Irina Björklund

Irina Björklund

Born: February 7, 1973
in Danderyd, Stockholms län, Sweden
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Irina Björklund (born 7 February 1973) is a Finnish actress.

Björklund was born in Danderyd, Stockholm County but she quickly moved to Finland with her family.[citation needed] She has acted in movies and in television series. Some well known movies include Rukajärven tie (int. Ambush), Levottomat (int. Restless), Minä ja Morrison (int. Me and Morrison), and Vieraalla Maalla (int. Land of Love). Björklund is married to Finnish actor Peter Franzén. In September 2007, Björklund gave birth to their first child, a boy.

Björklund moved to the United States in 1999. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband. She has also lived in France during her early years.

She fluently speaks Finnish, Swedish, French, English and also some Russian, and Spanish.[citation needed]. She studied in the Theatre Academy of Finland from 1993 to 1996.[citation needed] She left the school when Svenska Teatern (Swedish theatre in Helsinki) hired her.

In 1999, she was awarded the Jussi prize as best leading actress for her role as Milla in the movie Minä ja Morrison.She made her breakthrough in the movie Rukajärven tie where she played Lotta Kaarina Vainikainen. She was awarded the Shooting Star prize in the Berlin Film Festival in 2004.[citation needed]

In September 2010, Björklund's career in the United States took a leap, when she had a minor role in The American,[1] alongside George Clooney.[2] She played the role of Clooney's lover, Ingrid.

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The Café of My Memories
Title: The Café of My Memories
Character: Charlotta
Released: March 28, 2021
Type: Movie
A musical film about human relationships and how today's working life and the pressures of our surroundings can lead a person to the point of exhaustion.
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Title: Peacemaker
Character: Ann-Mari Sundell
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: TV
Finnish peace negotiator Ann-Mari Sundell has recently retired from her post as a crisis response adviser in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Suddenly, she is invited by the UN mandate to lead an international conflict resolution process in Turkey. As the peace talks proceed, Ann-Mari has to reconcile with her past before her personal life comes in the way of the whole peace process.
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The Eternal Road
Title: The Eternal Road
Character: Sofia
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
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The Unattainable Story
Title: The Unattainable Story
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
The lines of real life and fantasy begin to blur, as the director starts to suspect that he may only be a character in the story manipulated by the writer in order to get him to direct the play the way she wants, but also to stimulate her creativity.
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Moomins on the Riviera
Title: Moomins on the Riviera
Character: Audrey Glamour (voice)
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test.
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Apeiron
Title: Apeiron
Character: Iris
Released: September 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become evil and cruel.
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Road North
Title: Road North
Character: Tiia
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
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Stars Above
Title: Stars Above
Character: Saima
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla – each lives in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30 and 40. This deep and beautiful, yet humorous film pictures the encounters between people and the possibilities for choice. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our ability to hold on to our dreams? What are those things which we pass on from one generation to the next? What changes, what remains the same? And to what extent do mothers´ choices, let alone their unspoken secrets, affect their daughters´ lives?
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Title: Inget Ljus i Tunneln
Released: December 27, 2011
Type: TV
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Cewek Gokil
Title: Cewek Gokil
Released: January 20, 2011
Type: Movie
What do you really need in a girl? Handsome boyfriend? Sweet and kind older sister? Keke is not just any girl.
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Priest of Evil
Title: Priest of Evil
Character: Elisa Harjunpää
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
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The American
Title: The American
Character: Ingrid
Released: August 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
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The House of Branching Love
Title: The House of Branching Love
Character: Marjut
Released: August 21, 2009
Type: Movie
A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
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The Butcher
Title: The Butcher
Character: Jackie
Released: July 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take. Most men in that position would have been content to simply walk away with their lives, but Merle has been loyal for twenty years. Realizing he's been betrayed, something inside snaps. They used to call him "The Butcher" as a joke, but the laughter turns to screams when Merle returns to deliver the ultimate punchline.
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Blackout
Title: Blackout
Character: Anne Hartela
Released: December 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
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Three Wise Men
Title: Three Wise Men
Character: Magdaleena
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret.
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The Violent Kind
Title: The Violent Kind
Character: Jesika Malloy
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Horror - The story of a US Marine who has just returned home from the war in Iraq. In an ettempt to reunite with his young wife and Vietnam veteran father, he takes them back to the family cabin in Montana. - Kirk Harris, John Savage, Irina Björklund
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Isabella
Title: Isabella
Character: Isabella
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Karjalan kunnailla
Character: Neve
Released: November 21, 2007
Type: TV
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Red Is the Color of
Title: Red Is the Color of
Character: Mary Shaw
Released: September 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront desires and frustrations that threaten to destroy the illusions of their lives.
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Colorado Avenue
Title: Colorado Avenue
Character: Anna Boström
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.
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Dustclouds
Title: Dustclouds
Character: Karina
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
"Dustclouds" is an epic fever-dream, chronicling a long night's journey into day. As his wedding carriage rides beneath a starlit night, Getz vows to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Having worked his whole life, he has finally married. Yet as he lies in his bride's embrace, Getz already starts to question his happiness. Deep within, he yearns for "the perfect," which puts strain on his marriage. As the night progresses, inner turmoil unravels the fabric of Getz's being. Years begin to pass like seconds. Time, identity and purpose become unstuck. And a great sadness is borne into his life. Getz longs for answers, but is terrified by what he could lose in his search for truth? What follows is a quest deep into his heart of darkness.
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Title: Möbelhandlarens dotter
Character: Mirja
Released: March 1, 2006
Type: TV
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The First After God
Title: The First After God
Character: Anna
Released: November 3, 2005
Type: Movie
The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.
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Red Lightning
Title: Red Lightning
Released: March 15, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of a young stockbroker, Marty McClossie.
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Trouble with Sex
Title: Trouble with Sex
Character: Eva
Released: January 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see...
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Cora Stanton
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace....Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life...you must be careful which way you turn.
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Honey Baby
Title: Honey Baby
Character: Natasha (Honey Baby)
Released: June 26, 2004
Type: Movie
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Then he gets an offer to tour in East Europe. During his travels he gets insight and finds true love.
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Land of Love
Title: Land of Love
Character: Hanne Salmi
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
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The Third Wave
Title: The Third Wave
Character: Rebecca
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
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Title: Talismanen
Character: Tanja
Released: April 6, 2003
Type: TV
Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.
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Me and Morrison
Title: Me and Morrison
Character: Milla
Released: December 28, 2001
Type: Movie
A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen
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Dirlandaa
Title: Dirlandaa
Released: November 4, 2000
Type: Movie
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Restless
Title: Restless
Character: Hanna-Riikka
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love.
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Irmeli Kallio
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Suvi Kurkela
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Sirkka Mäntykallio
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Lapin kullan kimallus
Title: Lapin kullan kimallus
Character: Rimma Kyrö
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Kaarina Vainikainen
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.
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Asphalto
Title: Asphalto
Character: Nainen
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations, and automotive sports.
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Amazing Women by the Sea
Title: Amazing Women by the Sea
Character: Renée
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbors, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
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Rosegarden
Title: Rosegarden
Character: Kreeta
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Sisters Marjaana and Kreeta live alone in a deteriorating country house. Their mother has abandoned them and left in search of the world’s richest man.