Sari Lilliestierna

Sari Lilliestierna was born in Hausjärvi, Finland in 1954. In the late 70s she moved to Stocholm, Sweden, where she worked as a Kindergaten teacher. She joined in a Finnish-speaking amateur theater and got interested in acting. Later she was found by a Swedish film director John Olsson, who casted her as a leading star in his film Jonny Roova (1985). That was Lilliestierna's breakthrough. After that she played in numerous of Swedish films, TV-series and theater productions. In the late 80s she moved back to her homeland, Finland, where she continued acting in both theaters and films. She has played in many popular Finnish TV-series such as Metsolat (1995), Elämän suola (1996) and Tahdon asia (2005).