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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1973-06-10

Place of Birth

Helsinki, Finland

Minna Haapkylä

Biography

Minna Haapkylä (born June 10, 1973, in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress. Trained at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, graduating in 1997, she began her career at the Finnish National Theatre before establishing herself in film and television. She won the Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dog Nail Clipper (Koirankynnen leikkaaja, 2004) and Best Actress for The Interrogation (Kuulustelu, 2009). She has also appeared in French and international productions, notably in Eric Barbier's film The Serpent (Le Serpent, 2006). On television, she has taken part in numerous Scandinavian series, including Arctic Circle (Ivalo) and Bordertown (Sorjonen).

Known for

Deadwind

Deadwind

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

The Paradise

The Paradise

Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.

Rikospoliisi Maria Kallio

Rikospoliisi Maria Kallio

Christmas Story

Christmas Story

Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.

Queen of Fucking Everything

Queen of Fucking Everything

A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world.

Hovimäki

Hovimäki

The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907.

Hovimäki

Hovimäki

The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907.

Honeybunnies

Honeybunnies

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

Kiss Me in the Rain

Kiss Me in the Rain

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.

Vares: Gambling Chip

Vares: Gambling Chip

Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable

Producing Adults

Producing Adults

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Somebody Should Do Something

Somebody Should Do Something

Somebody Should Do Something tells a story of insecurity and longing for freedom, of fear that drives people to poor choices. The main character, Elvis, falls for the new girl in class, Onerva. Seeking acceptance from his friends, Elvis lies and tells them he’s had sex with Onerva. Due to the lies and misunderstandings, the whole town is soon at a point where somebody should do something.

The Border

The Border

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.

Kristuksen morsian

Kristuksen morsian

Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.