Rakel Wärmländer

Rakel Wärmländer

Born: October 3, 1980
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
She started with theater work at the age of nine in the play Kalas i Lönneberga at Dramaten in Stockholm. When she was nineteen she moved to New York and studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for one year. After she returned home to Sweden, she started working at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm with the company Darling Desperados, founded by Ulrika Malmgren. She graduated from Teaterhögskolan i Malmö in 2006.

Wärmländer has worked mostly in television and film. She played in the television mini-series Skuggornas hus (1996) where she played the character Tina. She has also played in shows such as Cleo, Skilda världar and Spung. She acted in the Helena Bergström film Se upp för dårarna, and also Hipphipp!, Itzhaks julevangelium and the Martin Beck film Okänd avsändare.

In late 2007, Wärmländer played Pippi Longstocking in the Jonna Nordenskiöld play Pippi Långstrump - världens starkaste, and also the character Tessa in the play Juloratoriet at Stockholms Stadsteater. She performed the voice acting for the character Fio in the animated film Porco Rosso.

She played the lead role in the Swedish feature film Love and Lemons (Swedish: Små citroner gula), which premiered on 20 February 2013. Her real-life friend actress Josephine Bornebusch played her friend in the film. In 2012 she played a role in the Caryl Churchill feminist drama Top Girls at Stockholms Stadsteater. She acted again in a Helena Bergström-directed film in the comedy En underbar jävla jul, where she plays a surrogate mother for her two best friends who are gay and want a child. The film premiered on 13 November 2015.

Wärmländer is the daughter of Tom Zacharias and Dorotea Wärmländer. She has two daughters with actor Lars Bringås.

Movies for Rakel Wärmländer...

Title: Limbo
Character: Ebba
Released: February 12, 2023
Type: TV
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My and Gloria. The news that their sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test
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Title: Adult Behavior
Character: Martha
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: TV
30-year-old Mathilda is on the verge of perfect adulthood with a job at a law firm and a stable relationship. But when her boyfriend proposes, an avalanche of emotions lead to questionable actions and put Mathilda's life in jeopardy.
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Off Track
Title: Off Track
Character: Klara
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: Movie
A mid-age hipster in Stockholm is a training freak and trains for the 90 km ski race Vasaloppet. His sister is the opposite, no job, drinks but has a daughter. Suddenly secrets reveals and promises are made.
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Eva & Adam
Title: Eva & Adam
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
To fall in love for the first time. How do you know? What do you do? Adam arrives as a new classmate, and meets Eva. Suddenly everything becomes different. Eva has just entered into an anti-boys pact with her best friend Annika because all the boys in the world are so childish. But nothing is as wonderful as the first love. And nothing is so difficult. When Eva and Adam meet, it is difficult to stop the emotions. Maybe impossible.
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Dancing Queens
Title: Dancing Queens
Character: Vera
Released: June 3, 2021
Type: Movie
The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.
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Cleanse
Title: Cleanse
Character: Stina
Released: August 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Stina and her young son Mateus are in a locker room at the bathhouse. When they're about to leave it's not possible to open the door and suddenly all the staff have disappeared without a trace. Stina and Mateus are trapped together with the rest of the women.
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Title: Breaking News with Jessica Almenäs
Character: Co-Host
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
Talkshow with host Jessica Almenäs
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Title: Breaking News with Jessica Almenäs
Character: Guest
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
Talkshow with host Jessica Almenäs
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Border
Title: Border
Character: Therese
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: Movie
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
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Title: Alex
Character: Frida Kanto
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: TV
Ruthless and corrupt police officer Alex has decided to come to terms with his dubious past and become clean. But the dark forces he has collaborated with earlier refuses to let him off the hook, putting both Alex and his family's lives at great danger. At the same time Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly has been instructed to bring him down.
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Title: Summer with the Family
Character: Åsa
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: TV
Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.
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Ester Blenda
Title: Ester Blenda
Character: Ester Blenda
Released: March 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A story about the unorthodox life of the groundbreaking Swedish journalist and author Ester Blenda Nordström (1891-1948). In a very restrictive time for women she travelled the world, always returning to her secret love, Carin, in Stockholm.
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A Holy Mess
Title: A Holy Mess
Character: Cissi
Released: November 13, 2015
Type: Movie
A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
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Love and Lemons
Title: Love and Lemons
Character: Agnes
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Agnes has most things in life: a family who are always there for her, a good job in the restaurant industry, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, and soon nothing is as it was.
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Title: Walk the Talk
Character: Anja
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: TV
Pontus, Mats, Olle and David. Four friends in their 40s who are restarting their lives in different ways when they thought all the choices were made. The main roles are played by Gustaf Hammarsten, Shanti Roney, Erik Johansson and Jacob Ericksson.
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Se upp för dårarna
Title: Se upp för dårarna
Character: Elin
Released: February 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to get out of her father's shadow, apply to the police academy, where they become close friends.
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Title: Doobidoo
Character: Self
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: TV
Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.
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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Title: Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Character: Linnea
Released: February 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.
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The Porridge Faggot
Title: The Porridge Faggot
Released: December 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Asker is always aftemoney and everybody knows he doesn't have any scruples. He gets accused of stealing a lottery ticket from the mentally-handicapped Musse. Simultaneously he meets a man at a café named Claes Douglas who promises to pay Asker if he does a favour for him.
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Title: Skilda världar
Character: Julia Svensson
Released: September 23, 1996
Type: TV
Skilda världar was a Swedish soap opera from 1996-2002 about two families in Stockholm and their friends. One rich family and one poor and about Daniel and Sandra who are from the two families and fall in love. Later in the series it is discovered that Daniel and Sandra are twins. The series goes further and further away from their story and goes more towards the hate from all characters against Rebecka who is trying to destroy the relationship between Sandra and Daniel. Skilda världar is one of TV4's most watched shows in history and was the longest running daily soap opera in Swedish television. The series was based on the 1980s Australian soap opera, Sons and Daughters.
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Title: The House of Shadows
Character: Tina
Released: March 19, 1996
Type: TV
Class 7A are on a school trip in Gotland. Class supervisor Gia believes a restless soul is haunting the house they're staying in. Student Vanessa claims the floor in her room rocks like a boat at sea during the nights, and becomes inexplicably seasick. Gia finds the passenger list from the sunken ship with the same name as the house they're living in - Pemba. The number of people on the list is the same as the number of teachers and students in the house. Five women, eight men. 70 years later. What is about to happen, what secrets are lurking behind the walls of the house Pemba?