Here comes a fantastic addition to the archives – one I did not think we’d ever see. In 2001, Noomi co-starred in a three-part miniseries called “Pusselbitar”, which marked her second on-screen appearance after the soap opera “Tre Kronor” in the late 1990s. “Pusselbitar” (meaning “puzzle pieces”) is an ensemble drama about the Swedish Hallberg family and their changing love lives. Their son, Joel, meets the girl of his dreams – a 21-year old Noomi Norén, still going by her birth name. But as so often, life has other plans for Joel. Noomi appeared in all three episodes of the series, although her scenes are rather brief. If you want to learn more about the series, have a look at the career pages with an episode guide. Screencaptures can be found in the photo gallery. Enjoy your weekend.

Lots of additional production stills from Noomi’s performances on film, television and theatre have been added to the photo gallery. Among the highlights is a wonderful new still from one of her earliest theatre performances in “Kameliendamen” at the Oriontheatern opposite Ola Rapace in 2000. New stills, on-set pictures from “Stockholm”, “Close”, “Django” and “Assassin Club” have been added as well. A full list can be found below. Enjoy.

Happy New Year everybody. In 2025, we can look forward to two feature films that have been wrapped already – Agnieszka Smoczyńska’ “Hot Spot” and Teona Strugar Mitevska’s “Mother” – fingers crossed that the latter, and Noomi’s performance of Mother Theresa, will bring her career some well-deserved attention. In the meantime, some changes have been made to the site’s layout and subpages, and a couple of additional editorial pictures have been posted to the photo gallery, as listed below.

On Friday, Noomi Rapace was invited to the 2024 Les Arcs Film Festival in France. After attending a photocall, she joined actress and director Ariane Labed in a discussion on their careers and the place of women in cinema, in partnership with Le Lab Femmes de Cinéma. Hopefully there’ll be more pictures or a video of the conversation panel later. For now, enjoy some wonderful pictures from the photocall.

On Saturday, Noomi Rapace took the stage in Lucerne to present the Eurimages International Co-Production Award to Labina Mitevska at the 37th European Film Awards. Mitevska is one of the founders of the family-run production company Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production based in Skopje, North Macedonia, with her sister Teona and brother Vuk. Their most recent joint is “Mother”, directed by sister Teona and starring Noomi Rapace. Labina herself is a highly acclaimed actress from the Balkan region, starting her career in Milčo Mančevski’s “Before the Rain” (1994), awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice and nominated for an Academy Award. Pictures and screencaptures from the ceremony have been added to the photo gallery.

Noomi Rapace has been a frequent visitor to The Fashion Awards in 2019 and 2021. Yesterday, she was a guest again on the red carpet, sporting a new haircut. Pictures from the event have been added to the photo gallery.

We’ve been reporting on “Hearts of Stone” for a while now. The short film, shot in 2021, made the festival rounds earlier this year and is qualified for Oscar consideration by winning Best International at the L.A. Shorts International Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Best Live Action Short at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film’s director Tom Van Avermaet has now released a first trailer for the film. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery. The official synopsis is below.

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.

Focus Features has picked up the sci-fi thriller Hot Spot from director Agnieszka Smoczyńska. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film, which stars Noomi Rapace, Andrzej Konopka and Reika Kirishima, wrapped production last week in Greece. Focus is reuniting with Smoczyńska after releasing her first English-language feature Silent Twins, which starred Black Panther breakout Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. “Agnieszka is a singular visionary whose work — be it about vampire mermaids, silent twins or a tech-ruled society — is both visually astounding and thematically prophetic, and we can’t wait to share her latest with the world,” Kiska Higgs, president of production and acquisitions at Focus, said in a statement. The U.S. studio picked up all territories worldwide, except for Poland, Greece and France, for Hot Spot, which is based on script by Robert Bolesto. The indie is set in a near future society ruled by sentient artificial intelligence and has a private eye investigate a murder case only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord. “I’m honored to work with Focus Features. Their remarkable achievements in film are matched only by their unwavering respect and support for directors. With Hot Spot, my goal is to create an immersive cinematic experience that captures the essence of today’s world, where advanced technology feels like magic, and love is intricately tied to fear,” Smoczyńska added in her own statement.

Last week, both director Teona Mitevska and Noomi Rapace shared a group shot from the filming of “Mother”, announcing the film has wrapped. Rapace wrote: “We just wrapped the shoot of “Mother Teresa” in Kolkata, India. Thank you all in the team for all the hard work and dedication! It’s been a brutal and beautiful. I’m deeply grateful to have been part of this. Thank you to my director Teona Mitevska, @mitevskateona . I love you”. According to an article by Variety, “Mother” – which chronicles a week in the life of 38-year-old Mother Teresa – started filming in September this year. Here’s the Hollywood Reporter’s press release from Cannes earlier this year:

Rapace will play the legendary Catholic saint in the biopic Mother, which will follow seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in Mother Teresa’s life, the period where she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order. Mother will be Mitevska’s English-language debut. She called Rapace, the star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, ‘” a perfect fit” for her depiction of Mother Teresa, which will be imagined as a rebellious, almost punk figure fighting against the structures of the Catholic church. Mother is structured as a five-country co-production between Macedonia’s Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup, Denmark’s Frau Film, the Netherlands’ Baldar Film, Sweden’s Spark Film & TV and Film i Väst. Kinology is handling global sales.

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.”