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Maria Bonnevie
Swedish-Norwegian actress (born 1973) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie (born 1973) is a Swedish-Norwegian actress. Bonnevie received both national and international acclaim for her performance in the Scandinavian epic I Am Dina and has since worked on a broad array of Scandinavian productions both in film, television and on stage.
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Early life
Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie was born in 1973 in Västerås to Swedish actor Per Waldvik and Norwegian actress Jannik Bonnevie.[1]
She grew up in Oslo, Norway, where she attended Hartvig Nissen School. She graduated from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1997.
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Bonnevie debuted on screen in 1991 in Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's The White Viking at the age of sixteen.[1] In 1995, she debuted on stage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the play Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy directed by Ingmar Bergman. Her breakthrough role was in Bille August's Jerusalem, an adaptation of the Selma Lagerlöf novel.
In 2002, Bonnevie starred in Ole Bornedal's I Am Dina. For her performance, she received numerous accolades including the Amanda Award for Best Actress and the award for Best Foreign Actress at the Montreal International Film Festival. She was also nominated for a Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well as for a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2003 ceremonies. In 2002, she was named one of European film's Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
In 2004, she appeared in the Swedish film Dag och natt directed by Simon Staho alongside her then fiancée Mikael Persbrandt.
In 2007, she played the female lead in the Russian film The Banishment directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) invited Bonnevie to join the Grand Jury of the Festival's 44th edition in 2009.[2]
In 2012, she played Countess Isolde in Belle du Seigneur alongside Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Natalia Vodianova and Ed Stoppard. The same year she starred in the Norwegian drama All That Matters Is Past which features the on-screen birth of her son.
Bonnevie won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2019 Amanda Awards for her performance in Phoenix and was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 54th Guldbagge Awards for her role in Becoming Astrid as Astrid Lindgren's mother Hanna.
In 2020, Bonnevie appeared in the Academy Award-winning Danish feature Another Round, reuniting her with Mads Mikkelsen who she played opposite in I Am Dina. For her performance, she was nominated for a Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She has been a part of the Royal Dramatic Theatre's ensemble cast since 1998.
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Personal life
Bonnevie is in a long-term relationship with Norwegian journalist and television host Fredrik Skavlan with whom she has 3 children, two daughters and a son. The couple split their time between Oslo and Stockholm. Between 1997 and 2005, she was in a relationship with Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt.
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