Helena Kallenbäck

Acting

Helena Kallenbäck

Born

1944-11-26 (81)

Place of birth

Risinge, Östergötlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Helena Kallenbäck (born November 26, 1944, in Risinge, Sweden) is a Swedish actress active in theatre, film, and television. She trained at the Malmö Theatre Academy from 1966 to 1969 and made her stage debut at Helsingborg City Theatre in The Maids. After working at the Norrköping–Linköping City Theatre, she moved to Stockholm in 1978, where her role in the musical adaptation of Smiles of a Summer Night marked her breakthrough. Kallenbäck is known for portraying strong, often sharp-edged or neurotic female characters. She received the Swedish theatre award Guldmasken in 1990 for her performance as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. On television, she appeared in series such as St…

Known for

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

Tre kronor poster
5.6

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.

Tre kronor

1994

Mord in bester Gesellschaft poster
7.0

Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

Mord in bester Gesellschaft

2007

Kejsarn av Portugallien poster
7.0

A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor.

Kejsarn av Portugallien

1992

Kvartetten som sprängdes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1973

Kunglig toilette poster
6.6

The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.

Kunglig toilette

1986

Film credits

Series credits

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

Tre kronor poster
5.6

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.

Tre kronor

1994

Mord in bester Gesellschaft poster
7.0

Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

Mord in bester Gesellschaft

2007

Kejsarn av Portugallien poster
7.0

A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor.

Kejsarn av Portugallien

1992

Kvartetten som sprängdes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1973

Mona and Marie poster
NR

Mona and Marie, two ordinary Swedish girls living in a small town with limited opportunities embark on an adventurous journey through Europe to escape their boredom.

Mona and Marie

1973