Rakel Amalia Wärmländer, née Zacharias, (born 3 October 1980) is a Swedish actress. [1] She started with theater work at the age of nine in the play Kalas i Lönneberga at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. [2] When she was nineteen she moved to New York City and studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for one year. [3] After she returned home to Sweden, she started working at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm with the company Darling Desperados, founded by Ulrika Malmgren. [4] She graduated from Teaterhögskolan i Malmö in 2006. [5]
Wärmländer has worked mostly in television and film. She played in the television mini-series Skuggornas hus (1996) where she played the character Tina. [4] She has also played in shows such as Cleo, Skilda världar and Spung. [4] She acted in the Helena Bergström film Se upp för dårarna, and also Hipphipp!, Itzhaks julevangelium and the Martin Beck film Okänd avsändare. [1] [6] [7]
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 the Stockholm City Theatre. [8] She performed the voice acting for the character Fio in the animated film Porco Rosso. [9]
She played the lead role in the Swedish feature film Love and Lemons (Swedish: Små citroner gula), which premiered on 20 February 2013. [10] Her real-life friend actress Josephine Bornebusch played her friend in the film. [11] In 2012, she played a role in the Caryl Churchill feminist drama Top Girls at the Stockholm City Theatre. [12] She acted again in a Helena Bergström-directed film in the comedy En underbar jävla jul, where she plays a surrogate mother for her two best friends who are gay and want a child. [13] The film premiered on 13 November 2015. [13]
Wärmländer is the daughter of Tom Zacharias and Dorotea Wärmländer. She has two daughters with actor Lars Bringås. [14]