Welcome to Noomi Rapace Online, your premiere resource on the Swedish actress. Best known for her performances as Lisbeth Salander in the original "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" film trilogy, "Prometheus" and the recent Indie hit "Lamb", Noomi Rapace has emerged as one of the most exciting European actresses of the last years. This fansite provides all latest news, photos, editorials and video clips on her past and present work.  Enjoy your stay and check back soon.
Nov
05
2024

Noomi Rapace is on board to narrate and executive produce Embankment Films’ feature documentary Garbo: Where Did You Go?, about the life of Hollywood actress Greta Garbo. Rapace will narrate the film in Garbo’s own words, taken from archive sources about her life. Garbo: Where Did You Go? is being made by Embankment Films in partnership with Sky in the U.K. and NonStop Entertainment and is co-produced by Mylla Films. Fremantle is handling worldwide sales. The feature documentary will air on Sky Arts in the U.K. in 2025, following a winter 2024 theatrical release. Jack Oliver, head of co-productions at Sky, commented: “Sky is excited by the opportunity of working again with Embankment Films; we share the same ethos and ambition in cinematic feature documentaries of iconic figures and getting the story behind the story.” Nick Taussig of Embankment, who is producing, commented: “We’re honored to have Noomi on board, who really captures Garbo’s spirit in her narration, and are excited both to partner with Sky Arts once more, who are supporting some of the highest caliber documentary and to work with Lorna Tucker, who’s become a strong, distinctive voice in documentary filmmaking, telling the stories of important, progressive women who have risen up and challenged the status quo.”

Nov
02
2024

Noomi is featured in a, let’s say… unique editorial in the October issue of the Brisith Re-Edtion Magazine: Noomi Rapace is something of an instigator. Together with Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte, who had been waiting for the right project to shoot in Drizyte’s hometown in Lithuania, the town’s time-frozen post-Soviet bars, industrial grit, and surrounding bucolic greenery serve as an instinctual backdrop for the photographer’s candid lens, spotlighting the debut collection of another close friend of theirs: Séan McGirr for McQueen. “The Swedish actress has proven herself unparalleled in digging into and channeling the most raw, complex nuances of the human condition. From her international career-launching turn as Lisbeth Salander, the whipsmart yet emotionally wounded hacker, in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to her lead as God-fearing galactic archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus; her eight-part lead as a set of identical octuplets in What Happened To Monday to her heartrending performance grappling with loss, isolation and motherly joy in the deliciously weird Lamb, the characters she plays are defined by a sense of contradiction and irrationality that makes them all the more relatably human”. Previews from their Instagram have been added to the photo gallery. You can order your copy of the issue here.

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Oct
13
2024

There are a couple of updates on the short film “Hearts of Stone”, directed by Tom Van Avermaet, which Noomi filmed back in 2020/2021. It been making the festival rounds since earlier this year, having had its world-premiere at the Belgian Film Festival Oostende. It was also shown at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and HollyShorts Film Festival and won the prize for Best International Film at the LA Shorts. Later this year, it will be shown at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. A couple of new production stills and an on-set picture have been added to the photo gallery.

In a sculpture park in the heart of a bustling metropolis, Paula, a lonely street artist, entertains people as a living statue. She longs with an impossible love for Agatha, a stone sculpture next to her regular spot. When a festival for living statues arrives in the park, Paula is dismayed to find that Agatha has been replaced by a new, modern sculpture. After a frantic search, she finds Agatha in a group of discarded statues, ready to be taken away. Almost as a farewell, she kisses the object of her affection. Later, at the festival’s closing party, Paula meets Agatha in the flesh.

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Sep
22
2024

With not much happening right now, some cool additions from the past have been added to the archives. There’s screencaptures and videos from two interviews at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to promote the premiere of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, two press junket interviews from 2014 alongside director Michaël R. Roskam to promote “The Drop” and one additional 2021 interview in which Noomi and director Valdimar Jóhannsson talk about “Lamb”. The full list of albums and videos can be found below. Enjoy.

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Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2021 – Dias de cine (November 26, 2021) [view video]
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2014 – Dias de cine (September 26, 2014) [view video]
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2014 – Telediario (September 24, 2014) [view video]
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2009 – VG TV (May 17, 2009) [view video]
Photo Gallery – TV & Online Appearances – 2009 – Dias de cine (April 29, 2009) [view video]

Aug
24
2024

Romanian film Three Kilometers to the End of the World, from director Emanuel Pârvu, won the Heart of Sarajevo prize on Friday for Best Feature Film at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival. The competition jury included Paul Schrader as president (director, USA), Sebastian Cavazza (actor, Slovenia), Una Gunjak (director, Bosina and Herzegovina), Juho Kuosmanen (director, screenwriter, Finland), and Noomi Rapace. The gallery has been updated with pictures from the awards ceremony alongside add-ons from the previous events at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The Heart of Sarajevo prize for Best Documentary went to A Picture to Remember from director Olga Chernykh, and Absent, from Cem Demirer, was the top Short Film. Next up, as reported by Deadline earlier this week, is the filming of “Mother”, which will begin shooting next month in Belgium before moving to Calcutta.

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Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2024 – 30th Sarajevo Film Festival – Screencaptures

Aug
23
2024

The 30th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina is coming to an end today, so we will probably see more of jury member Noomi Rapace later. In the meantime, she and her jury colleagues attended yesterday’s screening of “Dwelling Among the Gods”. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.

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Aug
22
2024

Another summary of the Sarajevo Film Festival Q&A, this time from Deadline. Noomi Rapace teased elements of her upcoming project Mother, in which she will play the revered and “complex” Catholic saint. The Swedish star, who is currently serving as a jury member at the Sarajevo Film Festival, has been prepping for the indie project with director Teona Strugar Mitevska (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya) and remarked that in between watching films at the festival, she’s also “reading a lot about” Mother Teresa. “I’ve been reading her letters, listening to her and doing research,” Rapace told Deadline. “There’s also a lot of negativity written about her so I’m filling myself with everything I can and trying to find who she is for me and, in conversations with Teona, we’re finding our Mother Teresa.” Rapace stressed the film, which is the English language debut from Strugar Mitevska, will not be a biopic, but will rather examine seven crucial days during the saint’s life when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta to launch her own Missionaries of Charity. The complete article can be read over at Deadline.She also talked about the cancellation of “Constellation” after one season.

I loved that character. It was a beautiful journey and Peter Harness is a brilliant writer and became a dear friend of mine. I loved working with Apple and the creative team and I was disappointed at first when it was canceled. It was a long journey though. I was prepping for three months and shooting for eight months so when you take on something of that level, it’s a big commitment. But I believe things happen for different reasons and I wouldn’t be able to do the films I’m doing now had they called for a second season. I’m very much in love with European arthouse directors at the moment and it feels refreshing and liberating for me to go back a bit to where it all started – small and more rock and roll. (Noomi Rapace, Deadline, August 22, 2024)

Aug
21
2024

Noomi Rapace is teasing her portrayal of Mother Teresa in the upcoming film “Mother,” in which the multi-faceted Swedish talent tackles the role of the Catholic saint when she was just an ordinary woman, Variety reports. Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival this week, where she’s part of a competition jury headed by Paul Schrader, Rapace said she was drawn to the offbeat portrait of Teresa because she wasn’t interested in doing a conventional biopic. “She was no saint,” Rapace said. “She’s a quite complex character.” “Mother,” which marks the English-language debut of North Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska, will follow seven days during a pivotal moment in the life of the revered saint, when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order. The complete article can be read over at Variety.

She’s waiting for permission from the Vatican to go out on her calling, her mission, to leave the convent and start her mission outside. No one has done what she’s asking permission to do. It hasn’t been done before. She’s a woman in a man’s world. I’ve felt like I’m against all odds many times and finding my voice and myself in different foreign situations, so I think I can relate to her stubbornness and her conviction that she needed to do this, even if it was going to be painful. She talks a lot about darkness and her doubts. She once said, ‘If I will ever become a saint, it will surely be one of darkness,’ which is very powerful. Both me and Teona somehow have some connecting tissue to Mother Teresa’s determined stubbornness, and how she takes on something and how she doesn’t back away and just pushes through. I can relate to that, that you keep fighting for something you believe in, even if everyone is telling you it’s not going to happen. Or no one else can see it. (Noomi Rapace, Variety, August 21, 2024)

Aug
18
2024

As previously reported, Noomi Rapace is among this year’s jury members for the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Her. The festival started last Friday and will bow this Friday. So far, only a couple of pictures from the opening night and a Q&A event. Make sure to check back during this week for (hopefully) more pictures.

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Aug
08
2024

After presenting her debut collection for Stel at Copenhagen’s TheKrane, Astrid Andersen returned to the elevated venue with her nearest and dearest to toast the unveiling of Collection 01. Speaking to Vogue Scandinavia ahead of Copenhagen Fashion Week, Andersen described the first collection as comprised of “tailoring you can skate in, denim you can dance in, and shirts you can travel in.” In which case, last night called for Stel’s denim: Andersen planned a full-blown rave to celebrate. But first, an intimate gathering with family and friends to reflect on the moment. “Coming back to The Krane – a venue that holds such special memories for me – feels like a perfect space for me to celebrate this next chapter with the people closest to me,” Andersen says. “I can’t wait to carry on the party, we all love to dance!” A full article on the launch with a photo gallery can be found over at Vogue Scandinavia. Noomi’s pictures have been added to the photo gallery. P.S. Noomi and Astrid were also guests at A$AP Nast’s Birthday Party At Broadwick Soho last week. You can find pictures from this appearance in the photo gallery as well.

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