Tuva Moa Matilda Karolina Novotny Hedström (born December 21, 1979), simply known as Tuva Novotny, is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 actress and singer. She was born in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 but grew up in Åmot outside Arvika

Arvika

Arvika is a locality and the seat of Arvika Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 14,184 inhabitants in 2005.-Geography:The town of Arvika is situated at Kyrkviken, a bay of Glafsfjorden, Sweden's only inland fjord, a remnant of the time following the last ice age .The area is hilly with the...

. Tuva is the daughter of Czech movie director David Novotny and actress Barbro Hedström. She is currently living in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. She has the legendary Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

 as a role model.

Filmography

• 1997: Tic Tac
  Tic Tac (film)
  Tic Tac is a 1997 Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson and written by Hans Renhäll, about various people involved in small crime during one day and night in Stockholm...
  
  
• 2000: Sleepwalker
  Sleepwalker (film)
  Sleepwalker is an upcoming 2011 Hong Kong film directed by Oxide Pang.-Cast:* Angelica Lee* Charlie Yeung* Huo Siyan* Li Zhonghan* Paw Hee-ching* Kent Cheng...
  
  
• 2000: Naken
• 2000: Jalla! Jalla!
  Jalla! Jalla!
  Jalla! Jalla! is a 2000 Swedish comedy film directed by Josef Fares starring Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny and Laleh Pourkarim as the main roles. Jalla! Jalla! is the debut film by Josef Fares and one of his most well-known...
  
  
• 2000: Herr von Hancken (TV miniseries)
• 2001: Anja
• 2002: Den Osynlige
  Den Osynlige
  Den osynlige is a 2002 Swedish film directed by Joel Bergvalland Simon Sandquist, and based on Mats Wahl's book of the same name. The film follows Niklas, a young and quiet man who falls short of his mother's expectations, and then finds himself attacked by a neglected young girl Annelie and left...
  
  
• 2003: Norrmalmstorg (TV)
• 2003: Slim Susie
  Slim Susie
  Slim Susie is a 2003 Swedish comedy crime film. It was directed by Ulf Malmros and written by Malmros and Petteri Nuottimäki.-Plot:The film is set in a small industrial town in the Swedish province of Värmland, where a young man returns from the big city to investigate the sudden disappearance of...
  
  (original title: Smala Sussie)
• 2003: Make Believe (original Swedish title: Kommer du med mig då)
• 2003: Midsummer (original Danish title: Midsommer, Swedish title: Midsommar)
• 2004: Stratosphere Girl
  Stratosphere Girl
  Stratosphere Girl is a 2004 film written and directed by Matthias X. Oberg.The film is about a Belgian teenager who travels to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2004: Dag och Natt
  Dag och natt
  Dag och natt is a 2004 Swedish film with Mikael Persbrandt....
  
  (English: Day and Night)
• 2004: Waiting for Rain (original Swedish title: I väntan på regn)
• 2004: Familien Gregersen (English title: Lost Generation)
• 2005: Young Andersen
  Young Andersen
  Young Andersen is a two part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen and his subsequent arrival at Copenhagen where he struggles for succes and...
  
  (original Danish title: Unge Andersen)
• 2005: Close to Heaven
  Close to Heaven
  Close to Heaven is a Czech comedy film directed by Dan Svátek. It was released in 2005.-Cast:* Go Go Jean Michel Francis - Samuel* Tuva Novotny - Emily* Tonya Graves - Mbo* Petr Vanek - Ernest the Illusionist* Arnost Goldflam - Gut...
  
  (original title: Blizko Nebe)
• 2005: Four Weeks in June (original Swedish title: Fyra veckor i juni)
• 2005: Stoned
  Stoned (film)
  Stoned, also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones in the UK, is a 2005 film about Brian Jones, one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones...
  
  
• 2005: Bang Bang Orangutang
  Bang Bang Orangutang
  Bang Bang Orangutang is a 2005 Swedish film directed by Danish director Simon Staho starring Mikael Persbrandt, Tuva Novotny, Lena Olin, Fares Fares, Jonas Karlsson, Reine Brynolfsson and many other popular Swedish actors....
  
  
• 2006: No. 2 a.k.a. Naming Number Two
• 2006: All it takes is a miracle (original Swedish title: Små mirakel och stora)
• 2006: Snapphanar
  Snapphanar (miniseries)
  Snapphanar is a Swedish miniseries made for TV/DVD film which aired in three parts on Sveriges Television during Christmas 2006, directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. The historical drama is about the Snapphane peasant rebel movement which fought against the Swedish rule of Scania in the 17th...
  
  
• 2007: The Black Madonna (original Danish title: Den Sorte Madonna)
• 2009: Original
  Original (film)
  Original is a film directed by Antonio Tublén and Alexander Brøndsted. It won the Golden Goblet for best film at Shanghai International Film Festival...
  
  
• 2009: Possession
  Possession (2009 film)
  Possession is an American remake of the Korean film Addicted. It is a psychological thriller film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2009: Simon & Malou
• 2009: Bröllopsfotografen
  Bröllopsfotografen
  Bröllopsfotografen is a Swedish tragicomedy film from 2009. It was directed and written by Ulf Malmros.-Plot:The film is mostly set in Stockholm and in the small industrial town of Molkom in the Swedish province of Värmland, where Robin, an amateur photographer lives...
  
  
• 2010: The Truth About Men (original Danish title: "Sandheden om mænd")
• 2010: Dear Alice
  Dear Alice
  Dear Alice is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Othman Karim starring Danny Glover, Tuva Novotny and Peter Gardiner. The film is written by Karim and Grace Maharaj-Eriksson.Dear Alice competed at the 2010 Moscow Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• 2010: Eat Pray Love
• 2011: DAG
  Dag
  -Places:*Dág , a village*Dąg, a village in Poland*DAG, the British National Rail station code for Dalgety Bay railway station, Scotland*DAG, the IATA code for Barstow-Daggett Airport, California, USA...
  
  ("Norwegian drama series")

Music

• 2003 - "Newfound Lover", from the album
  Album
  An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
  
   Smala Sussie

External links

• TuvaNovotny.com – unofficial fan site