Lena Meriläinen

Acting

Lena Meriläinen

Born 1954-05-19 · Helsinki, Finland

Acting credits

Syke-elokuva: Kipinöitä yössä poster
NR

The trauma center is facing its busiest day of the year: New Year's Eve. Jannica Ronkainen, a surgical nurse on duty, is already looking forward to the end of the year. Tired of her relationship troubles, Jannica wants anything but new romantic worries for the coming year – until she encounters a ghost from her past at the hospital. New Year's Eve offers Jannica the chance for one last adventure of the year, but the clinic's new and demanding surgeon, Eero Mustonen, adds challenges to Jannica's plans.

Syke-elokuva: Kipinöitä yössä

2025

Syke: Särkynyt sydän poster
4.0

Everything is on track in the life of the beloved but eccentric surgeon Petteri Holopainen but when a patient close to him is rushed to the hospital, nothing can go back to the way it was. Holopainen loses everything he holds dear. When a familiar person from the past enters his life, Holopainen must decide what still matters.

Syke: Särkynyt sydän

2023

Niskavuoren nuori emäntä poster
NR

The first part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Loviisa comes to Niskavuori as Juhani's young wife. She has to fight for her right to the house and her husband, but finds her own way of life and takes her place as the mistress of the house. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.

Niskavuoren nuori emäntä

1987

Once Upon a Time in the North poster
5.7

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.

Once Upon a Time in the North

2012

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet poster
6.5

The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet

1977

My Brother's Keeper poster
4.3

The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.

My Brother's Keeper

2018

Blackout poster
4.4

Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.

Blackout

2008

Young Gods poster
4.1

Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!

Young Gods

2003

Nurses – Dreadful Hospital Outage poster
6.8

Iiris tries to recover from her difficult separation with Artturi when she unexpectedly meets Anton. The relationship doesn't get a chance to progress far when Iiris' son Niilo suddenly becomes ill. Niilo would only need a small operation, but once the boy enters the operating room, the hospital is subjected to a cyber attack. The power is cut off, the ventilators stop working and all access to patient data is blocked. Nurses have to prioritize whose life is the most valuable.

Nurses – Dreadful Hospital Outage

2021