Pernilla August (before Pernilla Wallgren) is one of the most internationally recognized Swedish actresses. Also playwright and filmmaker, this veteran actress has just released in Sweden her latest film, “Callgirl” in which she worked under the direction of Mikael Marcimain.
August began her career with small roles in the seventies. Her debut in a major role is considered “Fanny and Alexander” by Ingmar Bergman in which she plays the young maid. In the eighties she would work for years with Bergman in the company of the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, as well as participate in various films and TV movies, including “Tuppen” by Lasse Hallström.
In the early nineties Pernilla August married the Danish director Bille August (from where her current surname) and shot with him “The Best Intentions“, initially a TV-movie written by Ingmar Bergman which became a film. Pernilla August would eventually receive the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and also won the Swedish Academy Guldbagge Prize for her role in this film. She shot with Bille August also “Jerusalem” and works in Hollywood in “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones” a professional turn which that has continued in 1999 with her participation in the Saga of Star Wars, playing August the role of the mother of Anakin Skywalker in the first and second part of the new and famous trilogy.
Pernilla August’s debut as a director came in 2005 with the short film “Blindgångare” (Time Bomb), and in 2010 she made her debut as a screenwriter and director of feature films with “Svinalängorna” (“Beyond”) which was the Swedish proposal for the Oscar Awards that year. August won for this film the Guldbagge Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Among her new projects are included, as actress,”Dom Över Död Man” that will be in the Swedish movie theaters this December and, as director, the Danish TV series “Arven Efter Veronika“, which is now in pre-production.
We look forward to the new projects of this versatile actress and filmmaker.
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