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Film · Television · Theatre · 1989 — present

Sara
Sommerfeld

Sara Sommerfeld is an award-winning multilingual Swedish actress with more than three decades of experience across film, television and theatre. She has appeared in over 50 leading roles and is known for her ability to move fluidly between genres and languages.

A graduate of the Swedish Theatre Academy in Gothenburg (1997–2001), she gained national recognition opposite Alexander Skarsgård in Wings of Glass, earning Best Actress at the Nordic Film Festival in Haugesund and a Guldbagge nomination for Best Actress.

Most recently she performed the solo show Show Bizniz on the Main Stage of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre — broadcast on SVT in 2025. She has also been chosen to perform at the Swedish Teaterbiennalen in Örebro with Lars Norén's Modet att döda.

Sara Sommerfeld
Awarded

Best Actress — Nordic Film Festival, Haugesund
Guldbagge nomination for Best Actress

Acting CV (PDF) IMDb Profile ↗ Casting & Booking
Film
  • The Best Intentions / Den goda viljan Dir: Bille August
  • Wings of Glass / Vingar av glas Lead · Dir: Reza Bagher
  • Tsatsiki — Friends Forever Dir: Eddie Thomas Petersen
  • LasseMajas Detektivbyrå — Stella Nostra Dir: Walter Söderlund / Pontus Klänge
  • Noll Tolerans Dir: Anders Nilsson
  • Kaninmannen Dir: Stig Larsson
  • Maskrosbarn TV Movie · Dir: Marianne Ahrne
  • Ghabe Dir: Marcus Castro
  • Heartbeat / Hjärtslag Short · Dir: Martin Lima de Faria
  • Ungdomens förförare Short · Dir: Björne Larsson
Television
  • Beck — The Lawyer Dir: Kjell Sundvall
  • En decemberdröm TV Series · Dir: Tomas Alfredsson
  • Vänner och fiender TV Series · Dir: Göran Parkrud
  • Bota mig! TV Mini-Series · Dir: Joachim Siegård
  • Orka! Orka! TV Series · Dir: Marcus Olsson
  • Göta kanal 3 TV Film
  • Hem till Midgård TV Series
Teater
  • Show Bizniz Lead · Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern
    SVT Broadcast 2025
  • Romeo & Juliet — Shakespeare Lead · Dir: Magnus Bergqvist
    Malmö Stadsteater
  • Modet att döda — Lars Norén Lead · Dir: Kia Berglund
    Teater Giljotin
  • Hustruskolan — Molière Lead · Dir: Daniel Benoin
    Göteborgs Stadsteater
  • Smutsiga händer — Jean-Paul Sartre Lead · Dir: Ragnar Lyth
    Stockholms Stadsteater
  • Tre systrar — Tjechov Lead · Dir: Alexander Mørk-Eidem
    Stockholms Stadsteater
  • Charlotte Löwensköld Stockholms Stadsteater
  • Grease — "Rizzo" Co-Star · Dir: Hans Marklund · Göta Lejon
  • Stora landsvägen — Strindberg Dir: Peter Stormare
    Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern
  • Spelman på taket — "Chava" Scalateatern · Dir: Lizzie Oved
  • Annie Get Your Gun Chinateatern · Dir: Chet Walker
  • Instant Playhouse — Lena Andersson Lead · Dir: Gustaf Hammarsten
    Playhouse Teater
  • Prima donnor Lead · Dir: Ricky Andreis
    Friluftsteatern Mariebergsskogen

Training

  • 1997–2001 The Swedish Theatre Academy, Gothenburg — Bachelor of Arts, 4 years
  • 2017–18 Alma Manusutbildning — Full-time education in scriptwriting, 300 YHP
  • 2017–18 Stockholm University of the Arts / Filmbasen — Advanced course in film directing
  • 2019 Stockholm University of the Arts / SVT — Writing TV series
  • 2019 Workshop — Acting for TV series, Elisabet Sevholt
  • 2016 Workshop — Emmy awarded casting director Nancy Bishop
  • 2016 Masterclass — Acting coach Dee Cannon
  • 2015 Stockholm University of the Arts — Masterclass in storytelling, Michał Leszczyłowski
  • 2016 Manuspiloterna — Basic scriptwriting, Fredrik Lindqvist / Kurt Öberg

Awards & Recognition

  • Best Actress — Nordic Film Festival in Haugesund (NNF)
  • Guldbagge nomination — Best Actress in leading role
  • 2015 Micael Bindefeld Foundation — Scholarship in memory of the Holocaust
  • 2019 The Swedish Arts Grants Committee — Scholarship
  • 2020 The Swedish Theatre Union — Scholarship
  • Teaterbiennalen Örebro — Selected to perform Modet att döda by Lars Norén

"Sommerfeld is a sensation as Nazli, a part that keeps her onscreen almost the whole time."

Variety

"It's wonderfully refreshing to see Sara use the whole range, from anger to grief, in her battles with the surroundings. She is exceptional."

Svenska Dagbladet
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