Helena Bergström, born February 5, 1964, in Kortedala, Gothenburg, Sweden, is a Swedish actress and film director. She began her acting career in 1982 in the television series Time Out before gaining wider recognition in 1989 for her roles in the films 1939 and The Women on the Roof. In 1993, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for her lead performances in The Last Dance and Pariserhjulet. On stage, she has performed in productions including Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Piaf, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Bergström made her feature directorial debut with Holy Mess (2015), which she also wrote, and later directed the film Dancing Queens (2021).
