Sofia Margareta G�tschenhjelm Helin is a Swedish actress best known for the Guldbagge Award nomination she got for her role in Dalecarlians, and for her role as Saga Nor�n in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge. Sofia Helin was born in Hovsta in �rebro, N�rke. Her father was a salesman and her mother was a nurse. When she was six years old her brother and grandmother were killed in a car accident which she said in 2014 still affected her. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from Lund University. From 1994-1996, she went to Calle Flygares theatre school and graduated from the Stockholm Theatre Academy in 2001. She lives in Linghem, outside Link�ping. She is married to Daniel Gotschenhjelm, a priest in the Church of Sweden and former actor. She has two children - a boy Ossian and a girl Nike who were ten and four years old respectively in 2014. She has appeared in several films, including At Point Blank where she had the leading role of Chief Inspector Klara. In 2004, she had another leading role as Mia in Masj�vlar. It was in that movie that she made her breakthrough. 

April 25th, 1972 in Hovsta (Age 52)