Who is Noomi Rapace (actress)? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

Noomi Rapace Wiki Biography

Born Noomi Norén on the 28th December 1979 in Hudiksvall, Sweden, Noomi is an award-winning actress, perhaps best known to the world as Lisabeth Salander in the films based on the “Millenium” series of novels, including “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”, among many other differing roles she has secured so far in her career.

Have you ever wondered how rich Noomi Rapace is, as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Rapace’s net worth is as high as $20 million, earned through her successful career, active since the late ‘80s, when becoming a child actress.

Noomi Rapace Net Worth $20 Million

Noomi is the daughter of Nina, who is an actress, and Spanish Flamenco singer, Rogelio Durán. Her parents later divorced, and from five years of age, Noomi lived in Iceland with her mother and step-father.

She made her acting debut when only seven years old, appearing in a minor role in the film “In the Shadow of the Raven”, an experience she liked and so became interested in acting as a full-time profession. Years later, Noomi made her second screen appearance, portraying Lucinda Gonzales in the soap opera “Tre Kronor”. She decided to leave home when only 15 years old, and in the next few years learned about acting in the Skara Skolscen acting school, before she started taking acting classes in various theaters, including Theater Plaza, Teater Galeasen, and eventually Royal Dramatic Theatre. She made her breakthrough in 2007 with the part of Anna in the drama film “Daisy Diamond”, and the same year she was chosen for the role of Nicky in the TV mystery drama series “Labyrint” (2007-2008), while in 2009 she reached stardom when chosen for the lead part of Lisbeth Salander in the first installment of the Millennium series, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, receiving several nominations and awards for her work, including BAFTA and Saturn awards. She repeated the role in the sequels “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”, both in 2009. In 2010 the TV mini-series “Millennium” was made out of the film series, which only further increased her net worth.

Thanks to her big breakthrough, Noomi got her first English speaking role – as Madam Simza Heron – in the action adventure film “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Jared Harris, while the following year Noomi starred in the sci-fi mystery adventure film “Prometheus”, directed by Ridley Scott, which helped increased her reputation and net worth, since the film grossed more than $400 million. The same year, she also had the lead role the mystery thriller “Passion”, next to Rachel McAdams and Karoline Herfurth, further increasing her net worth.

Noomi continued with Hollywood roles, including the portrayal of Beatrice in the action crime-drama “Dead Man Down”, next to Colin Farrell and Dominic Cooper, then as Nadia in the mystery crime-drama “The Drop”, starring next to Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini, and teaming up again with Hardy, this time in the thriller film “Child 44” (2015), all of which increased her net worth. Rapace continued with rather successful roles, including as Renee in the sci-fi horror thriller “Rupture” in 2016, then the lead role in the action drama “Unlocked” in 2017, with Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette, while she also starred in the action fantasy “Bright”, with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Most recently, she started working on the biopic about Maria Callas, entitled “Callas”, and the action thriller “Close”, however, the films are in their early stages and have yet to receive an official release date.

When it comes to her personal life, Noomi was married to actor Ola Norell from 2001 until 2011, and gave birth to their son in 2003. The couple chose Rapace as their last name following the wedding, which in French means “bird of prey”.



Full Name Noomi Rapace
Net Worth $20 Million
Date Of Birth December 28, 1979
Place Of Birth Hudiksvall, Sweden
Height 1.63 m
Profession Actress
Nationality Swedish
Spouse Ola Rapace (m. 2001–2011)
Children Lev Rapace
Parents Nina Norén, Rogelio Durán
Siblings Særún Norén
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/KazumiNoomi
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/
Awards Empire Award for Best Actress, Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominations Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, European Film Award for Best Actress, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, International Emmy Award for Best Actress, Teen Choice…
Movies Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, What Happened to Monday, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Drop, Rupture, Bright, Alien: Covenant, Child 44, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Unlocked, Dead Man Down
TV Shows Millennium, Tre kronor, Labyrint, Labyrinth
Trademark
1 Often plays emotionally and physically abused or scarred women.
Quote
1 [on doing fight scenes in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)] I tried to do as much as they allowed me to do. You get bruised, and your body aches, and you hurt yourself, but that’s kind of part of it. I am very self-critical, and I don’t like to pretend.
2 I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what’s going to happen and you can predict the whole story. I hate that. I think it’s very boring.
3 We need more extreme movies in Sweden, personal projects that aren’t necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative block to always have the audience as a goal.
4 I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.
Fact
1 In 2011, she became the first Swedish actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 52 years since Ingrid Bergman was nominated in 1959. Rapace was nominated for her performance in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009).
2 Upon marrying, she and ex-husband Ola Rapace (born Ola Norell) choose the common surname “Rapace” (instead of one spouse taking the name of the other as it is more common). They agreed upon the surname due to its meaning, “Bird of Prey”.
3 Fractured her nose in January 2015 when an elbow accidentally hit her face while filming Unlocked (2017). She, however, didn’t realize the extent of the injury until much later so, after a brief black out, she just got up and insisted on carrying on with the scene. As of April 2015, the fracture had yet to be mended and had healed up in a broken state (meaning it needs to be re-broken up again in order to fix).
4 Starred in two movies with Tom Hardy: The Drop (2014) and Child 44 (2015). In both movies they played each other’s love interest.
5 At the age of seven she got one non-speaking role in an Icelantic movie, then she decided to be an actress.
6 At the age of five she moved to Iceland with her mother and her stepfather.
7 Left home at the age of 15 to move to Stockholm, Sweden to start her acting career.
8 She has one sister, Særún Norén, who is a photographer.
9 The name Rapace means bird of prey in French and Italian.
10 In 1996, she made her television debut playing the part of Lucinda Gonzales in the long-running soap series Tre kronor.
11 Rapace speaks Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and English in addition to her native Swedish.
12 Her all-time favorite films are: True Romance (1993), Raging Bull (1980), Nil by Mouth (1997), Frances (1982) and Rundskop (2011).
13 Prague,Czech Republic: Filming Child 44 [July 2013]
14 Still speaks fluent Icelandic after having lived in Iceland for only a few years as a child. When she attended the premier of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) in Iceland, she carried out all her interviews in pitch perfect Icelandic. Also speaks some Spanish and has recently been adding English to the list.
15 During her early teens, Noomi went through a period where she aspired to being a punk rocker in the vein of the late Nancy Spungen, one-time girlfriend of The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious.
16 To date, counts her role in Daisy Diamond (2007) as her greatest emotional stretch as an actress. [2012]
17 Admires strong women roles such as Anne Parillaud as the indomitable La Femme Nikita (1990) and Patricia Arquette’s feisty Alabama in True Romance (1993). She was particularly moved by the bloody motel fight scene between Arquette and James Gandolfini, after having watched the movie numerous times.
18 Insists on doing her own stunts whenever possible and to the absolute extreme extent a given production will safely permit her to do so.
19 Spoke very little English at the time she finished the Lisbeth Salander trilogy. In a determined attempt to master English as quickly as possible, Noomi watched numerous English language movies with native language subtitles disabled, along with hours of television channels such as BBC, CNN, and miscellaneous TV talk shows.
20 Used some of her husband’s (Ola Rapace) clothing for her wardrobe in the Millennium (2010) film series.
21 Is half Spanish, half Swedish. Her mother, Nina Norén, is a Swedish actress. Her father, Rogelio de Badajoz (1953-2007), was a Spanish cantador (a Flamenco singer) from Badajoz. Rogelio may have had Romanian ancestry.
22 At age 5, she moved to Iceland with her mother and her stepfather.
23 At age 7, she got a non-speaking role in an Icelandic movie. She then decided to become an actress.
24 She left home at age 15 to go to Stockholm, Sweden, to start her acting career.
25 She has one sister, Særún Norén, who is a photographer.
26 Has a son, Lev, born in 2003.
27 She used the holes of her old piercings when she was a young punk rocker in her role as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009).

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Alien: Covenant 2017 post-production Elizabeth Shaw
Unlocked 2017 post-production
Bright 2017 filming
Callas 2017 pre-production Maria Callas
What Happened to Monday? 2017
Rupture 2016/I Renee
Child 44 2015 Raisa Demidov
The Drop 2014 Nadia
Dead Man Down 2013 Beatrice
The Rolling Stones: Doom and Gloom 2012 Video short Noomi
The Peter Weyland Files: ‘Prometheus’ Transmission 2012 Video short Elizabeth Shaw
The Peter Weyland Files: Quiet Eye, Elizabeth Shaw 2012 Video short Elizabeth Shaw
Passion 2012 Isabelle James
Prometheus 2012/I Elizabeth Shaw
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 2011 Madam Simza Heron
The Monitor 2011 Anna
Svinalängorna 2010 Leena
Millennium 2010 TV Mini-Series Lisbeth Salander
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest 2009 Lisbeth Salander
The Girl Who Played with Fire 2009 Lisbeth Salander
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Lisbeth Salander
Labyrint 2007-2008 TV Series Nicky
Labyrint mobisodes 2007 TV Series short Nicky
Daisy Diamond 2007 Anna
Du & jag 2006 Maja
Enhälligt beslut 2006 Short
Lovisa och Carl Michael 2005 TV Movie Anna Rella
Bloodbrothers 2005 Veronica
Toleransens gränser 2005 Short Mom
Älskar, älskar och älskar 2004 TV Movie Nelly
En utflykt till månens baksida 2003 Short Andrea
Tusenbröder 2003 TV Series Hemvårdare
Capricciosa 2003 Elvira
Stora teatern 2002 TV Mini-Series Fatima
Röd jul 2001 TV Short Kvinna på krog 1
Pusselbitar 2001 TV Mini-Series Marika Nilsson
Sanning eller konsekvens 1997 Nadja (as Noomi Norén)
Tre kronor 1997 TV Series Lucinda Gonzales

Self

Title Year Status Character
The American Cinematheque Tribute to Ridley Scott 2016 TV Movie Herself
London Collections: Men 2016 2016 Documentary short Herself
The Graham Norton Show 2015 TV Series Herself – Guest
The Brit Awards 2015 2015 TV Special Herself
The EE British Academy Film Awards 2015 TV Special documentary Herself – Presenter: Adapted Screenplay
Skavlan 2009-2015 TV Series Herself – Guest
Rencontres de cinéma 2014 TV Series Herself
IMDb: What to Watch 2014 TV Series documentary Herself
Días de cine 2009-2014 TV Series Herself – Interviewee
Made in Hollywood 2013-2014 TV Series Herself
Special Look 2014 TV Series Herself
Good Morning America 2014 TV Series Herself – Guest
Dead Man Down: Revenge Technique – The Cinematography 2013 Short Herself
Dead Man Down: Staging the Action – The Firefights 2013 Short Herself
Revenge and Redemption: Crafting Dead Man Down 2013 Video short Herself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2011-2013 TV Series Herself – Guest
Reel Junkie 2013 TV Series Herself
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus 2012 Documentary Herself
Weyland Corp Archive: The Making of ‘Prometheus’ 2012 Video documentary short Herself
Janela Indiscreta 2012 TV Series Herself
Charlie Rose 2010-2012 TV Series Herself – Guest
Big Morning Buzz Live 2012 TV Series Herself – Guest
Late Show with David Letterman 2012 TV Series Herself – Guest
Kulturzeit 2012 TV Series Herself
HBO First Look 2012 TV Series documentary Herself
Gomorron 2010-2011 TV Series Herself – Guest
1st Look 2011 TV Series Herself
Last Call with Carson Daly 2011 TV Series Herself – Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2011 TV Series Herself – Guest
14 Actors Acting 2010 Video short Herself
Cinema 3 2009 TV Series Herself – Interviewee
Le grand journal de Canal+ 2009 TV Series documentary Herself
DP/30: Conversations About Movies 2007 TV Series Herself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Chelsea Lately 2012 TV Series Elizabeth Shaw
Made in Hollywood 2012 TV Series Herself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2012 Amanda Amanda Awards, Norway Best Actress (Årets kvinnelige skuespiller) Babycall (2011)
2011 EDA Female Focus Award Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Female Action Star Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 Empire Award Empire Awards, UK Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 Best Actress Rome Film Fest Babycall (2011)
2010 Guldbagge Guldbagge Awards Best Actress (Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll) Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 Spotlight Award Hollywood Film Awards
2010 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 Golden Nymph Monte-Carlo TV Festival Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series Millennium (2010)
2010 NYFCO Award New York Film Critics, Online Breakthrough Performance Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 International Jury Award São Paulo International Film Festival Best Actress Svinalängorna (2010)
2008 Bodil Bodil Awards Best Actress (Bedste kvindelige hovedrolle) Daisy Diamond (2007)
2008 Robert Robert Festival Best Actress (Årets kvindelige hovedrolle) Daisy Diamond (2007)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2012 Jupiter Award Jupiter Award Best International Actress Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
2012 Teen Choice Award Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Actress: Action Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
2012 Teen Choice Award Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Breakout Prometheus (2012)
2011 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA Awards Best Leading Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 EDA Female Focus Award Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Breakthrough Performance Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 EDA Female Focus Award Alliance of Women Film Journalists Women’s Image Award Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 Critics Choice Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 COFCA Award Central Ohio Film Critics Association Breakthrough Film Artist Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2011 Guldbagge Guldbagge Awards Best Actress (Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll) Svinalängorna (2010)
2011 Emmy International Emmy Awards Best Performance by an Actress Millennium (2010)
2011 ALFS Award London Critics Circle Film Awards Actress of the Year Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 Davis Award Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 HFCS Award Houston Film Critics Society Awards Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 Sierra Award Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2010 SLFCA Award St. Louis Film Critics Association, US Best Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
2009 European Film Award European Film Awards European Actress Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)

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