Sofia Margareta Helin (born 25 April 1972) is a Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in Dalecarlians, and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge.Sofia Helin was born in Hovsta in Örebro, Närke. Her father was a salesman and her mother was a nurse. When she was 10 days old, her grandmother and her six-year-old brother were in a car accident; her grandmother survived, but her brother was killed. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from Lund University. From 1994-1996, she went to Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre Academy in 2001. She was brought up in Linghem, outside Linköping but in 2015 was living in Stockholm.Her films include At Point Blank (Rånarna) (2003) playing the leading role of Chief Inspector Klara. In 2004, she took the leading role of Mia in Masjävlar, and she was nominated for a Guldbagge award. Followed by, in 2007, the leading role of Cecilia Algottsdotter in Arn, an adaptation of Jan Guillou's The Knight Templar, about Arn Magnusson. She also featured in the Swedish animated film Metropia (2009).Since 2012, she has become famous outside Sweden as a result of the successful crime drama series, The Bridge, in which she played Saga Norén, the homicide detective from Malmö.In the UK, the series attracted more than a million viewers per episode and she has been called a role model for women with Asperger syndrome. She said she would appear in a fourth series. The fourth season began airing in Sweden and Denmark on 1 January 2018 and in May 2018 in the UK.In 2015, she starred in a Danish science fiction film called Fang Rung and acted in a British/German TV series directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, shot in Prague, about divided Berlin in the 1970s and called The Same Sky in which she spoke in both German and English.Helin is married to Daniel Götschenhjelm, a priest in the Church of Sweden and former actor whom she met at drama school. She has two children: a son, Ossian, aged 14 and a daughter, Nike, aged 8.Helin’s facial scar was caused by a cycling accident when she was 24.

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