Noomi Rapace captured the eyes of the international entertainment community with her commanding, unnerving and critically acclaimed portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Upcoming, Rapace stars in Kim Farrant’s Angel of Mine. The story follows a mother, Lizzie (Rapace), who is still struggling to cope with the loss of her daughter several years earlier, becomes convinced that a stranger’s daughter is, in fact, her own. As her obsession grows, she becomes more and more entwined in this young girl’s life, causing her to lose touch with reality. Lionsgate is
Noomi Rapace captured the eyes of the international entertainment community with her commanding, unnerving and critically acclaimed portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Upcoming, Rapace stars in Kim Farrant’s Angel of Mine. The story follows a mother, Lizzie (Rapace), who is still struggling to cope with the loss of her daughter several years earlier, becomes convinced that a stranger’s daughter is, in fact, her own. As her obsession grows, she becomes more and more entwined in this young girl’s life, causing her to lose touch with reality. Lionsgate is slated to release the film on August 30th, 2019.
Later this year, Rapace will be seen in season two of the Amazon Original series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, opposite John Krasinski. In the series, she portrays Harriet Baumann, a formidable agent in Germany’s Secret Intelligence, who meets up with Jack Ryan (Krasinski) in South America. Prime Video is slated to release the series on November 1st, 2019.
She recently wrapped production on Yuval’s Adler’s The Secrets We Keep, opposite Joel Kinnaman. She portrayed Maja, a woman rebuilding her life along with her husband (Kinnaman) in New York after WWII. Then they encounter an eerily familiar man their life starts to unravel.
Rapace will soon begin production on Valdimar Jóhannsson’s supernatural drama, Lamb. The film tells the story of a childless couple who are sheep farmers in Iceland who find newborn who is half-human, half sheep. They then decide to keep the lamb-child and raise it as their own regardless of the consequences. Additionally, it was recently announced that Rapace will both star in and produce the film, Sylvia. Production will begin later this year and she will play Mossad’s most famous female agent, Sylvia Rafael, a South African-born agent who rose to prominence in the Israeli intelligence agency.
Rapace was recently seen in Robert Budreau’s psychological drama Stockholm, which she co-starred with Ethan Hawke. The film is based on the 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” written by Daniel Lang. Hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as Stockholm Syndrome.
Earlier this year, Rapace starred in Vicky Jewson’s Close, based on the true story of hardened female bodyguard Jacquie Davis. The Netflix film followed Sam (Rapace) and her teenage heiress client through a violent kidnap attempt that forces them to be on the run as wanted fugitives.
Rapace began her acting career at the age of seven, in Iceland’s In the Shadow of the Raven. She has since gone to appear in over twenty films and television shows. In 2007, she made her mark on the big screen with a breakthrough performance in the 2007 Danish film, Daisy Diamond. In the film, Rapace portrays a troubled teen-mother who leaves her home to pursue a dream, ultimately failing and having a breakdown with fatal consequences. For her performance, she was honored with the Bodil Award (Denmark) and a Robert Award for Best Actress (Denmark).
She garnered high praise for her breakthrough performance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment of the Millennium Trilogy. She won the Best Actress Guldbagge Award (Sweden) and the Best Actress International Jupiter Award (Germany) in addition to being nominated for an Orange British Academy Film Award for Lead Actress and a Best Actress European Film Award for her role. Rapace garnered subsequent praise for her performances in the second and third installments, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Additional film credits include David Ayer’s fantasy realm film Bright, alongside Will Smith and Joel Edgerton; Mikael Hafstrom’s Unlocked; Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday?; Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant alongside Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterson; Steven Shainberg’s sci-fi adventure thriller Rupture, alongside Peter Stormare and Kerry Bishe; Daniel Espinosa’s film adaptation of the critically acclaimed Tom Rob Smith novel, Child 44 opposite Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman and Jason Clarke; Michaël R. Roskam’s crime-drama The Drop alongside Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini; Niels Arden Oplev’s Dead Man Down in which she reunited with director and starred opposite Colin Farrell; Guy Ritchie’s sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law; as well as Brian De Palma’s Passion, alongside Rachel McAdams and Karoline Herfurth.
Notably, in 2011, Rapace starred in Pernilla August’s directorial debut of the Swedish film Beyond (Svinalägorna), which won the Venice Film Festival Critic’s Week prize as well as the Nordic Council Film Prize, and additionally, for which Rapace received a Guldbagge Best Actress’ Award for her performance. That same year, Rapace starred in Pål Sletaune’s Norwegian thriller Babycall, for which she received the Best Actress honor at the Rome Film Festival.
