Rakel Wärmländer

{{short description|Swedish actress}}

Rakel Amalia Wärmländer, née Zacharias, (born 3 October 1980) is a Swedish actress.{{cite website|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114738/http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/puls/9904/02/rakel.html |language=sv |title=Aftonbladet puls: Vi tar pulsen på Rakel Wärmländer |url=http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/puls/9904/02/rakel.html |url-status=live |work=Aftonbladet}} She started with theater work at the age of nine in the play Kalas i Lönneberga at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.{{cite work|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=3 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803135349/http://www.dramaten.se/Medverkande/Rollboken/?roleName=Bock |language=sv |publisher=Dramaten |title=Arkivet Rollboken |url=http://www.dramaten.se/Medverkande/Rollboken/?roleName=Bock |url-status=live}} When she was nineteen she moved to New York City and studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for one year.{{cite journal |accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113224/http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.71070-med-skratt-och-fingrar-i-halsen |date=28 August 2006 |first=Louise |language=sv |last=Jacobson |title=Med skratt och fingrar i halsen |url=http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.71070-med-skratt-och-fingrar-i-halsen |url-status=dead |work=Göteborgs-Posten}} After she returned home to Sweden, she started working at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm with the company Darling Desperados, founded by Ulrika Malmgren.{{cite |accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102934/http://www.actorsagency.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rakel-w%C3%A4rml%C3%A4nder-cv.pdf |language=sv |website=actorsagency.se |title=Rakel Wärmländer |url=http://www.actorsagency.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rakel-w%C3%A4rml%C3%A4nder-cv.pdf |url-status=live}} She graduated from Teaterhögskolan i Malmö in 2006.{{citation|archivedate=7 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507161504/http://www.thm.lu.se/studerande/avgaang-s-2006 |language=sv |publisher=Teaterhögskolan i Malmö |title=Avgångsklassen 2006 |url=http://www.thm.lu.se/studerande/avgaang-s-2006}}

Wärmländer has worked mostly in television and film. She played in the television mini-series Skuggornas hus (1996) where she played the character Tina. She has also played in shows such as Cleo, Skilda världar and Spung. She acted in the Helena Bergström film Se upp för dårarna, and also Hipphipp!, Itzhaks julevangelium and the Martin Beck film Okänd avsändare.{{cite blog|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305000908/http://www.tjejjouren.se/aktuellt/bloggen-530-742-skal/rakel-warmlanderbrnar-jag-var-12-ar-borjade-jag-sluta-ata-1218 |language=sv |publisher=Tjejjouren.se |title=Rakel Wärmländer: "När jag var 12 år började jag sluta äta" |url=http://www.tjejjouren.se/aktuellt/bloggen-530-742-skal/rakel-warmlanderbrnar-jag-var-12-ar-borjade-jag-sluta-ata-1218 |url-status=dead}}{{cite blog|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081648/http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article10880405.ab |language=sv |title=Se upp för dårarna |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article10880405.ab |url-status=live |work=Aftonbladet}}

In late 2007, Wärmländer played Pippi Longstocking in the Jonna Nordenskiöld play Pippi Långstrump - världens starkaste, and also the character Tessa in the play Juloratoriet at the Stockholm City Theatre.{{cite work|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121112/https://www.stadsteatern.stockholm.se/medverkande/medverkande.asp?id=00005807 |language=sv |publisher=Stockholm Stadsteater |title=Stadsteatern Juloratoriet |url=https://www.stadsteatern.stockholm.se/medverkande/medverkande.asp?id=00005807 |url-status=dead}} She performed the voice acting for the character Fio in the animated film Porco Rosso.{{cite journal |accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=30 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930094522/http://www.dubbningshemsidan.se/credits/porcorosso/ |language=sv |title=Svenska röster & credits - Porco Rosso |url=http://www.dubbningshemsidan.se/credits/porcorosso/ |url-status=live |work=Dubbningshemsidan}}

She played the lead role in the Swedish feature film Love and Lemons (Swedish: Små citroner gula), which premiered on 20 February 2013.{{cite newspaper|accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044542/http://www.svd.se/trovardighetsproblem-pa-filmduken |date=19 February 2013 |first=Karoline |language=sv |last=Eriksson |title=Recension: Små citroner gula (Film) |url=http://www.svd.se/trovardighetsproblem-pa-filmduken |url-status=live |work=Svenska Dagbladet}} Her real-life friend actress Josephine Bornebusch played her friend in the film.{{cite journal |accessdate=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060811/http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article13663353.ab |language=sv |title=Här är två nya citronstjärnor |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article13663353.ab |url-status=live |work=Aftonbladet}} In 2012, she played a role in the Caryl Churchill feminist drama Top Girls at the Stockholm City Theatre.{{cite journal |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111601/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/top-girls-pa-stockholms-stadsteater/ |language=sv |title="Top girls" på Stockholms stadsteater |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/top-girls-pa-stockholms-stadsteater/ |url-status=live |work=Dagens Nyheter}} She acted again in a Helena Bergström-directed film in the comedy En underbar jävla jul, where she plays a surrogate mother for her two best friends who are gay and want a child.{{cite journal |accessdate=12 January 2016 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305172354/https://www.moviezine.se/nyheter/forsta-bilderna-fran-gaykomedin-en-underbar-javla-jul |author=MovieZine |title=Första bilderna från gaykomedin "En underbar jävla jul" |url=https://www.moviezine.se/nyheter/forsta-bilderna-fran-gaykomedin-en-underbar-javla-jul |url-status=live |work=MovieZine}} The film premiered on 13 November 2015.