Laura Birn
Birthday: 1981-04-25
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Biography: Laura Eveliina Birn (born 25 April 1981 in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress. She has tackled roles in historical dramas, lighthearted comedies, and thought-provoking art-house films with equal finesse. Her performance in the 2012 film Purge earned her a Jussi Award for Best Actress and a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Actress. In 2021 she began playing the role of robot Eto Demerzel in the series Foundation. Birn has also appeared in films Pearls and Pigs (2003), Promise (2005), Christmas Story (2007), Naked Harbour (2012), Heart of a Lion (2013), Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), The Ones Below (2015), Helene (2020), and The Crow (2024). Her performance in the mystery drama series Munkkivuori earned her a Golden Venla award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022. Birn completed her master's degree from Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2008. In 2024, Finnish weekly news magazine Suomen Kuvalehti wrote, sourcing publicly available tax records, that Birn is the most highly-paid Finnish actor or actress of all time.
Movies
Seamstress
A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943....
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8 Days to Premiere
A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noo...
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Promise
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through th...
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Must Have Been Love
A Finnish-Norwegian love story with an unexpected shape and development. Shot in Oslo, Helsinki, Ist...
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Purge
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people wer...
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Little Hearts
The Finnish short film is a tragic tale of a young boy who falls in love with a dangerous older girl...
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Heart of a Lion
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting ...
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Rock'n Roll Never Dies
The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guita...
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The Crow
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them....
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August Fools
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in compl...
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Light Light Light
Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arr...
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murder...
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Armi Alive!
Armi Ratia is the woman behind the legendary design company Marimekko and a worldwide celebrity. A t...
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The Girl King
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the cons...
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Distractions
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grav...
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Absolution
Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one han...
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Inner Trial
Noa is a young slacker who prefers to spend his days smoking weed. Together with his friends, he mee...
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Pearls and Pigs
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his ...
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The Ones Below
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in do...
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Love and Fury
In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determi...
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Alma de Sant Pere
Alma is a young ambitious woman working in her own small company in Barcelona. She is happy in life ...
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Rally On!
This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sl...
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Jäät
The story of Leena and Kai, a couple working in the rescue services, whose relationship falls into c...
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95
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlappi...
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The Birdcatcher
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish gir...
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East of Sweden
Three men meet on a night train on the border of Finland and Sweden. All three are concealing someth...
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Bayonet
Miguel “Bayoneta” Galíndez is a retired boxer from Tijuana who finds himself living in a cramped fla...
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Void
Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambi...
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The Last Ones
Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mi...
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Helene
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside...
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Christmas Story
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The vi...
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Two Bodies on a Beach
A woman wakes up on a beach tied in a plastic press wearing only underwear and high heels. “Not agai...
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Naked Harbour
In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young wo...
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Games People Play
Group of old friends gather in a summer villa to celebrate a surprise birthday party for Mitzi, who ...
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Any Day Now
Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. The...
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Stripping
About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her be...
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Kill Anneli
Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life....
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Eden
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the arc...
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Aita
Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love wit...
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Kolme suudelmaa
A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world...
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Täydelliset vieraat
A group of middle-aged friends get together for dinner. The playful banter between couples who have ...
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Father's Day
Tinke, who has been drinking his health away, lives in a care home, where his dark humour and his fr...
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Blue Baby
A specialist nurse is given responsibility for a baby boy with a serious heart condition in the midd...
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Operation Napoleon: Tears of the Wolf
Kristin and Steve are living a quiet life in Iceland until an emergency call and a mysterious murder...
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The Beloved
An acclaimed film director and his daughter, an unsuccessful actress, shoot a film together after ye...
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