2015
The Midwife
Helena
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KOSONEN
คริสตา โคโซเนน
From Finnish drama to an unsettling maze
From The Midwife and Beforeigners to Backrooms.
Espoo, Finland
Crossing languages and genres
Krista Kosonen is a Finnish actor born in Espoo on 28 May 1983. She graduated from Helsinki’s Theatre Academy in 2009 and has worked in film and television.
In The Midwife (2015), she played a midwife during the Lapland War. The role earned her the best actress award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Her work includes the Finnish film Miami, for which she won a Jussi Award, and the Norwegian series Beforeigners. She also appeared in Blade Runner 2049.
In Backrooms (2026), Kosonen plays Nora in Kane Parsons’s film about a mysterious maze of empty spaces.
The films below are those available on FLM.RED, not her complete filmography.
Selected performances
2019
Beforeigners
Alfhildr Enginsdottir
2026
Backrooms
Nora
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Actors in Scandinavia — credits and awards
- Vilnius on Screen — The Midwife
- Pohjola-Norden — education
- IMDb — biographical details
- Rotten Tomatoes — credits
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.