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Alma Pöysti

Acting Born Mar 16, 1981 Helsinki, Finland 24 credits

Biography

Alma Ilona Pöysti (born 16 March 1981) is a Finnish actress. She is the daughter of director Erik Pöysti and granddaughter of Finnish actors Lasse Pöysti and Birgitta Ulfsson. Pöysti has also lived and worked in Sweden. Pöysti studied at the University of the Arts Helsinki from 2003 to 2007, then worked at the Swedish Theatre and the Finnish National Theatre.

In 2020, she played Tove Jansson in a biopic titled Tove. In 2023, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Fallen Leaves.

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Full filmography

  • Marcians (2017) as Self
  • Helsinki Crimes (2022) as Hietanen
  • Fallen Leaves (2023) as Ansa
  • Blackwater (2023) as Ylja Happolati (1973)
  • A Day and a Half (2023) as Louise
  • Tell Everyone (2026)
  • Safe House (2025) as Caroline
  • Sukkwan Island (2026) as Anna
  • Raptures (2025) as Lisa
  • Tove (2020) as Tove Jansson
  • The Elf (2025)
  • Naked Harbour (2012) as Marika
  • Orenda (2025) as Nora
  • Moomins on the Riviera (2014) as Niiskuneiti (voice)
  • Therapy (2025) as Anna
  • Beatrice
  • Four Little Adults (2023) as Juulia
  • Tsamo (2015) as Alisa Moore
  • Dagmamman (2013) as Inka
  • Kristuksen morsian (2014) as Laura
  • Blue Note (2022) as Leena
  • The Good Driver (2023)
  • The Good Driver (2023) as Mia
  • Flowers of Evil (2016) as Laura