Helena Bergström (born 5 February 1964 in Kortedala, Gothenburg) is a Swedish actress. The granddaughter of legendary Swedish actor Olof Widgren and the daughter of Hans Bergström (director) and Kerstin Widgren (actress). Bergström is married to Colin Nutley and is known for playing the female lead in many of his films. Being one of Sweden’s most highly acclaimed stage actresses she has played the lead part in plays like ”Miss Julie”, ”Twelfth Night”, ”Pygmalion”, ”Piaf”, "A Dolls House", the part of Hamlet in “Hamlet”, “Medea” and Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. In the autumn of 2008 she will play the part of Sally Bowles in Stockholm City Theatre’s production of “Cabaret”. Despite being born into a theatrical family, Bergström's childhood dream was to work with animals. Aged 15, she travelled to Mississippi in the US as an exchange student and lived there for a year. During this time, she became fascinated with the theatre and decided that the stage was her calling. Back in Sweden, she won a part in a TV series but failed in her first attempt to achieve a place at stage school. Thanks to tuition from Margreth Weivers, she succeeded on her third attempt in 1985. On graduating from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1988, she worked at both the Dramaten Theatre and the Stockholm City Theatre. Her breakthrough came with the film 1939 in 1989. Colin Nutley spotted her on a poster for the film "Women on the roof" Kvinnorna på taket (1989) and gave her the leading role in his film Blackjack (1990). She was also the obvious choice for his film Änglagård (1992) as well as its sequel ”House of Angels – the Second Summer”. In 1998 she played the part of Astrid in the English production ”Still Crazy” which was to be followed by Colin Nutley’s Oscar-nominated ”Under the Sun” - a film that also received the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival "for the quality of its acting". Winner of several awards including Best Actress at the Swedish Film Awards, the Montreal Film Festival and the 1995 Istanbul Film Festival for her performance in Nutley’s ”The Last Dance”. In 2007 she made her directorial debut with “Mind the Gap” (Se upp för dårarna). Has two children, a son and a daughter, with Nutley.

Filmography

• 2026Resan till Piemonte — Eva
• The Pirate Bay — Monique Wadsted
• Codename: Annika — Agatha Torstensson
• Ture Sventon och jakten på ungdomens källa — Matilda Jansson
• 2022Kulkuset kulkuset — Original Film Writer
• 2021Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen — Grace Öhrn, Screenplay
• 2021Dancing Queens — Writer, Director
• Bäckström — Tussan Carlsson
• 2020No More F*cks To Give — Director
• Ture Sventon and the Secrets of The Bermuda Triangle — Fröken Jansson
• Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms — Writer
• 2018The Cake General — Dyr-Gunilla
• 2017Mending Hugo's Heart — Director, Writer
• Missing — Maja Silver
• Springfloden — Linn Magnusson
• 2015A Holy Mess — Carina, Director, Writer
• 2014Medicine — Johanna
• The Fourth Man — Stein
• 2013Julie — Director, Screenplay
• 2011Somewhere Else — Annell
• 2010House of Angels - Third Time Lucky — Fanny Zander
• 2009So Different — Director
• 2008Angel — Angelica “Angel” Holst
• Selma — Selma Lagerlöf
• 2007Se upp för dårarna — Director, Writer
• Sweden's Got Talent — Jury member
• 2006Heartbreak Hotel — Elisabeth Staf
• 2004The Queen of Sheba's Pearls — Nancy Ackerman / Emily Bradley
• 2003Paradiset — Annika Bengtzon
• 2002Mrs Klein — Melitta Klein
• 2001Deadline — Annika Bengtzon
• 2000Gossip — Stella Lindberg
• 2000Once in a Lifetime — Mona Berglund
• 1998Still Crazy — Astrid Simms
• 1998Under the Sun — Ellen Lind
• 1996Such Is Life — Tin-Tin Matsson
• 1996The Hunters — Anna Sivertsson
• 1994House of Angels: The Second Summer — Fanny Zander
• 1993Pariserhjulet — Kickan
• 1993The Last Dance — Tove Särlefalk
• 1992House of Angels — Fanny Zander
• 1990BlackJack — Ingrid Forsberg
• 19891939 — Berit
• 1989Husbonden — Dora
• 1989The Women on the Roof — Anna
• 1989Ängel — Åsa
• 1988Rat Winter
• 1988VD — Anna
• 1987Friends — Bonnie

Appearances as themselves (25)

• 2024Malou möter Helena Bergström — Self
• BIANCA — Self - Guest
• Vilket liv! — Herself - Huvudgäst, Herself - Gäst
• The Land of the Cyclops — Self
• Luuk & Hallberg — Self
• Tillsammans med Strömstedts — Herself
• Vänligen: Lars Lerin — Self
• Renées brygga — Herself
• Bergs bärbara talkshow — Self
• 2013Rise Above - Filmen om Anton Hysén — Self
• Min sanning — Self
• Plura's Kitchen — Self - Guest
• Tack för musiken — Self
• Hellenius Hörna — Self - Guest
• Skavlan — Self - Guest
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Herself
• 2008Ernst-Hugo — Self
• Robins — Self - Guest
• Stjärnorna på slottet — Self
• Doobidoo — Self
• 2001Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid — Self
• 2001Se mig! — Self
• Så ska det låta — Self
• The Guldbagge Awards — Self - Best Actress winner
• Melodifestivalen — Self