Noomi Rapace

She used the holes of her old piercings when she was a young punk rocker in her role as Lisbeth Salander in Mn som hatar kvinnor .

Has a son, Lev, born in 2003.

She has one sister, Srn Norn , who is a photographer.

She left home at age 15 to go to Stockholm, Sweden, to start her acting career.

At age 7, she got a non-speaking role in an Icelandic movie. She then decided to become an actress.

At age 5, she moved to Iceland with her mother and her stepfather.

Is half Spanish, half Swedish. Her mother, Nina Norn , is a Swedish actress. Her father, Rogelio de Badajoz (1953-2007), was a Spanish cantador (a Flamenco singer) from Badajoz. Rogelio may have had Romani ancestry.

Used some of her husbands (Ola Rapace ) clothing for her wardrobe in the "Millennium" film series.

Spoke very little English at the time she finished the Lisbeth Salander trilogy. In a determined attempt to master English as quickly as possible, Noomi watched numerous English language movies with native language subtitles disabled, along with hours of television channels such as BBC, CNN, and miscellaneous TV talk shows.

Insists on doing her own stunts whenever possible and to the absolute extreme extent a given production will safely permit her to do so.

Admires strong women roles such as Anne Parillaud as the indomitable Nikita and Patricia Arquette s feisty Alabama in True Romance . She was particularly moved by the bloody motel fight scene between Arquette and James Gandolfini , after having watched the movie numerous times.

To date, counts her role in Daisy Diamond as her greatest emotional stretch as an actress.

During her early teens, Noomi went through a period where she aspired to being a punk rocker in the vein of the late Nancy Spungen , one-time girlfriend of The Sex Pistols Sid Vicious.

Still speaks fluent Icelandic after having lived in Iceland for only a few years as a child. When she attended the premier of Mn som hatar kvinnor in Iceland, she carried out all her interviews in pitch perfect Icelandic. Also speaks some Spanish and has recently been adding English to the list.

(July 2013) Prague,Czech Republic: Filming Child 44

Her all-time favorite films are: True Romance , Raging Bull , Nil by Mouth , Frances and Rundskop .

Rapace speaks Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and English in addition to her native Swedish.

In 1996, she made her television debut playing the part of Lucinda Gonzales in the long-running soap series Tre kronor.

The name Rapace means bird of prey in French and Italian.

She has one sister, Srn Norn, who is a photographer.

Left home at the age of 15 to move to Stockholm, Sweden to start her acting career.

At the age of five she moved to Iceland with her mother and her stepfather.

At the age of seven she got one non-speaking role in an Icelantic movie, then she decided to be an actress.

Starred in two movies with Tom Hardy : The Drop and Child 44 . In both movies they played each others love interest.

Fractured her nose in January 2015 when an elbow accidentally hit her face while filming Unlocked . However, she didnt realize the extent of the injury until much later, so, after a brief blackout, she insisted on carrying on with the scene. As of April 2015, the fracture had healed in a broken state (meaning it would need to be re-broken in order to fix it).

Upon marrying, she and ex-husband Ola Rapace (born Ola Norell) choose the common surname "Rapace" (instead of one spouse taking the name of the other as it is more common). They agreed upon the surname due to its meaning, "Bird of Prey".

In 2011, she became the first Swedish actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 52 years since Ingrid Bergman was nominated in 1959. Rapace was nominated for her performance in Mn som hatar kvinnor .

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal. .