Maria Bonnevie

Maria Bonnevie
Born	Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie 26 September 1973 (1973-09-26) (age 38) Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Spouse	Mikael Persbrandt (1998-2003)

Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie (born 26 September 1973) is a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She was born in Västerås, Sweden, but she grew up in Oslo, Norway. Her parents, both actors, are the Norwegian actress Jannik Bonnevie and Swedish actor Per Waldvik. Bonnevie was educated at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting (1997) and had her first theater role in Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's Hvíti víkingurinn (The White Viking), at the age of fifteen.

In 1997, she had her debut at the Swedish theater Dramaten, in the play Yvonne by Ingmar Bergman. Her screen debut was in the movie Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon (directed by Ola Solum, 1991). Her big breakthrough came with the movie Jerusalem (directed by Bille August, 1997), and among her later movies are Insomnia (1997), Øyenstikker (Dragonfly, 2001) and Syndare i Sommarsol (2001). For the movie Jeg er Dina (I Am Dina, 2002) she received a prize for best foreign actress at the Montreal International Film Festival. In 2002 she was named one of European film's Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.

In 1999, she played Olga in The 13th Warrior.^[1] In 2004, she appeared in the Swedish film Dag och natt directed by Simon Staho.

In 2007, she played female lead in the Russian film The Banishment directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) invited Bonnevie to join the Grand Jury of the Festival's 44th edition in 2009.^[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other Notes
1991	The White Viking	Embla
1991	The Polar Bear King	Princess
1993	The Telegraphist	Pernille
1996	Jerusalem	Gertrud
1997	Insomnia	Ane
1999	The 13th Warrior	Olga
2001	Dragonfly	Maria
2002	I Am Dina	Dina
2002	Falling Sky	Juni
2003	I Am David	David's mother
2003	Reconstruction	Simone/Aimee	two roles
2004	Three Suns	Emma
2004	Day and Night	Sarah
2007	The Banishment	Vera
2008	What No One Knows	Ursula
2009	Engelen	Lea (Adult)
2009	Harry & Charles (TV miniseries)	Maud
2010	Maskeblomstfamilien

References

1. ^ Maria Bonnevie at website Movies Unlimited
2. ^ "Juries at the Karlovy Vary IFF". http://www.kviff.com/en/juries/grand-jury/. Retrieved 2009-07-14. 

External links

• Maria Bonnevie at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Bonnevie, Maria
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Date of birth	26 September 1973
Place of birth	Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
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