Malla Malmivaara

Acting

Malla Malmivaara

Born

1982-12-10 (43)

Place of birth

Jyväskylä, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Malla Malmivaara (born Laura Malmivaara on 10 December 1982 in Jyväskylä) is a Finnish actress and singer. She adopted the first name Malla to avoid confusion with her second cousin, who is also an actress and singer. Graduating with a Master's degree from the Theatre Academy of Helsinki in 2017, she pursues an artistic career spanning film, television, and music. On the big screen, she drew attention in the drama Star Boys (Kaiken se kestää, 2017), a performance that earned her a Jussi Award nomination, and went on to appear in films such as Little Siberia (Pikku-Siperia, 2025). On television, she is best known for her roles in the crime and drama series Black Widows (Mustat lesket, 2014–2…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Star Boys poster
5.9

In a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland during the late 1970s, the arrival of the sexual revolution disrupts the balance of two architect families. The plot follows two 13-year-old boys, singers in the traditional Star Boys Christmas procession (Tiernapojat), who closely witness their parents' sexual liberation and the resulting marital tensions. Confronted with the adults' behavior and the breakdown of their family structures, the teenagers face upheavals that impact their own transition into adulthood.

Star Boys

2017

Ella and Friends 2: Paterock poster
6.8

Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.

Ella and Friends 2: Paterock

2013

Hustlers poster
4.7

The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.

Hustlers

2010

The Singer poster
3.2

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.

The Singer

2018

Ella And Aleksi - Surprise Birthday Party poster
NR

Kid's sing along animation with songs by a somewhat popular kid rap duo Ella & Aleksi

Ella And Aleksi - Surprise Birthday Party

2011

Dirty Bomb poster
3.8

Mirccu has a dream job as the PR coordinator of a record company. When her boss, the music mogul Martin threatens to fire her, she is forced to find her own way to success. Together with her football-playing boyfriend Roba who is recovering from an ankle injury she has to reflect whether the good times are really over, and to what lengths they are willing to go to survive. She is given one last chance to prove herself by successfully launching the career of an obnoxious fifteen-year-old teenage star-to-be with the code name Dirty Bomb.

Dirty Bomb

2011

The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories poster
4.5

The movie is about the Lokomo laborer, and group of friends that dreams come true and a thirst for fast-paced life that take decades.

The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories

2013

Winning Ticket poster
4.9

Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?

Winning Ticket

2018

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Deadwind poster
6.9

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Deadwind

2018

Putous poster
4.3

Finnish sketch comedy television show.

Putous

2010

Thicker Than Water poster
6.7

The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

Thicker Than Water

2014

Kimmo poster
7.5

The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.

Kimmo

2012

Modernit miehet poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Modernit miehet

2019

Black Widows poster
5.7

Black Widows is a series about 3 ordinary women, friendship and an impossible secret.

Black Widows

2014

Nymphs poster
5.4

They live among us, forever young and deadly seductive. And unlike vamps, it's not blood they crave from their male, as 17-year-old Didi Tiensuu discovers when she beds her boyfriend for the first time and promptly kills him. The sultry nymphs Kati and Nadia take Didi under their wings in her new life as a divine being and sexual predator.

Nymphs

2014

Kansan mies poster
NR

The life of Aki Honkala, a blindly dedicated Member of the European Parliament, takes a radical turn during one scandal-plagued election night. The fall from grace is no surprise to anyone but himself. The people have spoken, let the chatter go - but what remains of a man who has lived and breathed politics for most of his adult life?

Kansan mies

2013

Forgiven poster
7.0

Forgiven is a realistic miniseries with dense atmosphere, based on Laura Manninen's novel. 30-something strong-willed Vilma falls in love with Mikko, who is perfect in many ways: a charming, polite, sensitive and sympathetically capricious man. Gradually, Vilma, who has never dreamed of children, realizes that she and Mikko have somehow become a blended family with hustle and bustle and three children. There's a dog, apple trees and beautifully aged house. Little by little, Mikko's true personality is revealed and the seemingly perfect idyll collapses. The abnormal becomes completely normal. Love, shame, fear and need to solve the problems keep Vilma in abusive relationship until the situation escalates to the poins where it's all about surviving and staying alive. The drama series Forgiven deals with love, domestic violence, shame and the culture of silence. Forgiven is a tragic love story, but also a story of survival.

Forgiven

2023

Suojelijat poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suojelijat

2008

Virta poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Virta

2011

The Happy Hour of the Wolf poster
NR

After Janne suddenly disappears while taking out the trash, the police tell Heta there’s nothing they can do - a person has every right to go missing if there is no sign of a crime. Troubled, she begins searching for and finds only one clue: it seems Janne had undergone Koistinen’s radical divorce therapy for men.

The Happy Hour of the Wolf

2019

DikDek - Painajainen majatalossa poster
6.0

Tapsa Mäkilä quits his job as a private detective and starts running a dilapidated inn with his spouse Anna.

DikDek - Painajainen majatalossa

2021