Helena Bergström

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Helena Bergström (born 5 February 1964 in Kortedala, Gothenburg) is a Swedish actress.

The granddaughter of Olof Widgren and the daughter of Hans Bergström, Bergström is married to Colin Nutley and plays the female lead in many of his films. She has also acted on stage, for example in Piaf at the Stockholm City Theatre.

Despite being born into a theatrical family, Bergström's childhood dream was to work with animals. At the age of five, she appeared in a production of Klas Klättermus. Aged 15, she travelled to Mississippi in the US as an exchange student and lived there for a year. During this time, she became fascinated with the theatre and decided that the stage was her calling. Back in Sweden, she won a part in a TV series but failed in her first attempt to achieve a place at stage school. Thanks to tuition from Margreth Weivers, she succeeded on her third attempt in 1985.

On graduating from the National Swedish Academy of Mime and Acting in 1988, she worked at both the Dramaten Theatre and the Stockholm City Theatre. Her breakthrough came with the film 1939 in 1989. Colin Nutley spotted her on a poster for the film Kvinnorna på taket (1989) and gave her the leading role in his film Blackjack (1990). She was also the obvious choice for his film Änglagård (1992). She and Nutley have two children together.

She won a Swedish Film Institute Guldbagge Award for her role in Pariserhjulet (1993).