Lina Leandersson

Lina Leandersson ( born September 27, 1995, Falun, Dalarna County ) is a Swedish actress. A wide audience the night (2008) was the amateur actress by her first starring role in the feature film, so sombre known.

Biography

Lina Leandersson is Swedish and Iranian descent and was born in Falun, where she grew up and attended school. Although her ​​family is very fond of the sport, she began to be interested in dance and acting at an early age. They played, among others, an amateur theater and participated in drama courses. They also devoted himself to the street and jazz dance. In 2006, the 11 -year-old joined as a juror at the Lilla Melodifestivalen, the Swedish preselection for the Junior Euro Song Contest, in appearance. In the same year Leandersson was with five other children from 500 applicants selected to participate in the Swedish children's program Nickelodeon 's programledarskola, which aired in October 2006 on TV.

The breakthrough as an actress succeeded Leandersson with her ​​first leading role in Tomas Alfredson's feature film Let the Right (2008). The grim horror - drama, a film adaptation of the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, is located in a Swedish satellite town in the early 1980s and tells the story of a terrorized by his classmates 12 -year-old schoolboy (played by Kåre Hedebrant ), the acquaintance with a newly drawn neighbor's child makes. Between the girls of that turns out to be a vampire, and the outsider a close relationship, which granted the boy connection and protection developed. Although she did not know the script of the film, Leandersson had participated in an Internet - casting and auditioned three times for the role before she was given the part of Eli. In order to display the figure androgynous, director Tomas Alfredson did dub the voice of his protagonist. It was also Leandersson and Kodarsteller Kåre Hedebrant not allowed to read the script. To pass on information about each to-play scenes, Alfredson read the two children their text before each scene aloud. The director praised his leading lady after the shooting as a " freak girl " and compared Leandersson often because of their radiated wisdom and peace with " a 80-year -old woman."

Let the Right celebrated its world premiere in late January 2008 at the Göteborg International Film Festival, where Tomas Alfredson's directorial work was promptly awarded the main prize at the film festival. The film was in the favor of the cinema audience and the critics, and was among other things, five Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's most important film award, award winning. Also praised for her acting performance was still relatively unknown Lina Leandersson in the role of Eli. The world emphasized the seriousness of child performers " highly original vampire and Erwachsendwerden movie (s)", while American critics described Leandersson as "extremely good", " mysterious and captivating " and with Kirsten Dunst in Interview a Vampire (1994 ) were compared. She won the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Young Actress, where they prevailed against, inter alia Dev Patel ( Slumdog Millionaire ) and their film counterparts Kåre Hedebrant and was alongside such famous film actresses like Kristin Scott Thomas ( So many years I love you) or Michelle Williams ( Wendy and Lucy ) nominated for the Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress.

Leandersson lives with her ​​mother, stepfather and two younger sisters in Falun. After the success of her first film role the student that counts, among other American History X, The Sixth Sense and apologize to their favorite films plans to continue her acting career. However, the next films she made in 2012, with the productions, The Arbiter and Tenderness.

Filmography

  • 2008: Let the (lat rätte the comma in )

Awards

Chicago Film Critics Association Award

  • 2008: nominated for Best Young Actress for Let the Right One

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 2009: nominated for Best Actress for Let the Right One

Fangoria Chainsaw Award

  • 2009: Best Actress for example, the dark night

Online Film Critics Society Award

  • 2009: Best Young Actress for example, the dark night

Saturn Award

  • 2009: nominated for Best Young Actress for Let the Right One

Young Artist Award

  • 2009: nominated for Best Performance in an International Feature Film (shared with Kåre Hedebrant ) for example, the dark night
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