Rakel Wärmländer

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 ...

Love and Lemons (2013)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Teresa Fabik
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Josephine Bornebusch  •  Sverrir Gudnason  •  Tomas von Brömssen

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Teresa Fabik
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Josephine Bornebusch  •  Sverrir Gudnason  •  Tomas von Brömssen

Mind the Gap (2007)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Nina Zanjani  •  Dan Ekborg  •  Korhan Abay

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Nina Zanjani  •  Dan Ekborg  •  Korhan Abay

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown (2002)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harald Hamrell
CAST:  Peter Haber  •  Mikael Persbrandt  •  Malin Birgerson  •  Marie Göranzon

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harald Hamrell
CAST:  Peter Haber  •  Mikael Persbrandt  •  Malin Birgerson  •  Marie Göranzon

A Holy Mess (2015)

A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Maria Lundqvist  •  Robert Gustafsson  •  Anastasios Soulis  •  Anton Lundqvist

A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Maria Lundqvist  •  Robert Gustafsson  •  Anastasios Soulis  •  Anton Lundqvist

Ester Blenda (2016)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anna Hylander
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Sara Sommerfeld  •  Tova Magnusson

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anna Hylander
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Sara Sommerfeld  •  Tova Magnusson

Border (2018)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ali Abbasi
CAST:  Eva Melander  •  Eero Milonoff  •  Viktor Åkerblom  •  Jörgen Thorsson

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ali Abbasi
CAST:  Eva Melander  •  Eero Milonoff  •  Viktor Åkerblom  •  Jörgen Thorsson

The Porridge Faggot (1997)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bengt Johansen
CAST:  Stefan Larsson  •  Nadja Weiss  •  Lena Nyman  •  Johan Rabaeus

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bengt Johansen
CAST:  Stefan Larsson  •  Nadja Weiss  •  Lena Nyman  •  Johan Rabaeus

Dancing Queens (2021)

The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Molly Nutley  •  Christopher Wollter  •  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Mattias Nordkvist

The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helena Bergström
CAST:  Molly Nutley  •  Christopher Wollter  •  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Mattias Nordkvist

Cleanse (2020)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  SaraKlara Hellström
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Charlie Banjac Ivarsson  •  Eva Hedling  •  Elin Rosenlind

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  SaraKlara Hellström
CAST:  Rakel Wärmländer  •  Charlie Banjac Ivarsson  •  Eva Hedling  •  Elin Rosenlind

Eva & Adam (2021)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Caroline Cowan
CAST:  Sonja Holm  •  Olle Cardell  •  Stella Marcimain Klintberg  •  Lukas Wetterberg

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Caroline Cowan
CAST:  Sonja Holm  •  Olle Cardell  •  Stella Marcimain Klintberg  •  Lukas Wetterberg

Off Track (2022)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mårten Klingberg
CAST:  Fredrik Hallgren  •  Katia Winter  •  Torkel Petersson  •  Mårten Klingberg

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mårten Klingberg
CAST:  Fredrik Hallgren  •  Katia Winter  •  Torkel Petersson  •  Mårten Klingberg