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Maria Heiskanen (born 1970) is a Finnish actress. She works in cinema, television and theatre.
Heiskanen received her breakthrough role in the 1991 Swedish film Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem directed by Jan Troell. For her role Heiskanen won the Gold Plaque Award in Chicago International Film Festival for the Best Actress in 1992. Heiskanen lived in Sweden during 1993 Р2003 and worked in movies and theatre. She played in Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern and in Riksteatern where she for example performed role of Masja in Anton Chekhovs The Seagull (2008) directed by Lars Nor̩n.
In Finland Heiskanen has worked with Aki Kaurismäki in Lights in the Dusk (2006). She also played in Aleksi Salmenperä’s A Man’s Work (2007) and was nominated for Jussi Awards from both performances.
In 2008, Heiskanen starred in the leading role of Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments, for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress Award from Valladolid International Film Festival. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards. It also made the January shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards, but wasn’t selected as one of the final nominees.
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Maria Heiskanen Biography / Wiki
| Name | Maria Heiskanen |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Kuopio, Finland |
| Date of Birth | 1970-08-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 52 |
| Deathday |
Maria Heiskanen Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Everlasting Moments | Maria Larsson | 2008-09-24 | In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters… |
| The Longest Day | 2020-01-26 | This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden…. | |
| Man’s Job | Katja | 2007-02-23 | Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. Bu… |
| Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem | Minna | 1991-11-15 | The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the so… |
| Lights in the Dusk | Aila | 2006-02-03 | Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He’s a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go… |
| Faro | Socialkvinnan / The Social Services Woman | 2013-03-15 | Faro is about a man who flees into the forest with his daughter to escape a prison sentence…. |
| Ravens | Gärd | 2017-10-13 | A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son taking over the farm and continue his lega… |
| Hella W | Kerttu Nuorteva, “Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen” | 2011-01-01 | The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, … |
| All That Matters Is Past | Ragnhild | 2012-11-02 | Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of… |
| Apeiron | Umbra’s Mother | 2013-09-25 | Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become e… |
| Boy Upside Down | Katri | 2014-08-29 | A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents…. |
| Apeiron | Umbra’s mother | 2013-09-25 | Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become e… |
| The Last Sentence | Pirjo | 2012-12-07 | Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the … |
| The Fire Engine That Disappeared | Carla | 1993-07-02 | A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investiga… |
| Open Up to Me | Silva | 2013-03-08 | At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual en… |
| As White as in Snow | Merja | 2001-02-15 | Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter, in the early 1900s, who dr… |
| Hellsinki | Marja | 2009-01-09 | In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood’s black-market liquor business…. |
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