Alma Pöysti
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7274 |
| Birthday | 1981-03-16 |
| Place of Birth | Helsinki, Finland |
| Also Known As |
2011
Where Once We Walked
4.2/9
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence throug...
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Where Once We Walked
2014
Kristuksen morsian
1.7/3
Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have li...
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Kristuksen morsian
2023
Four Little Adults
5.9/11
The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pas...
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Four Little Adults
2015
Permission to Operate
0/0
Permission to Operate is a story about a single mother struggling to balance different roles in her life, when her passion for a man overshadows the l...
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Permission to Operate
2025
Raptures
5.5/8
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight fr...
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Raptures
2023
A Day and a Half
6.348/132
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
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A Day and a Half
2023
Silkesapans skratt
10/1
A silk monkey and a tapir become friends.
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Silkesapans skratt
2023
Fallen Leaves
7.126/732
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – f...
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Fallen Leaves
2015
Tsamo
0/0
In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named Tsamo and d...
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Tsamo
2014
Moomins on the Riviera
5.8/43
The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place...
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Moomins on the Riviera
2022
The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
7/3
A beautiful summer day in Moomin Valley. Suddenly, a wasp stings Moomintroll, who falls ill and has to stay in bed. To cheer him up, Moominpappa recou...
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The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
2021
Spiral
7/1
Anna sees Jasmine, her former school bully, after years when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a ci...
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Spiral
2023
The Good Driver
5.6/5
Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, a...
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The Good Driver
2024
Children of War and Peace
0/0
For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the uphea...
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Children of War and Peace
2022
The Limelight Life
0/0
A world-weary reality TV host (Alma Pöysti) is given one last chance by her producer. Accompanied by a cynical filming crew, she goes to find out what...
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The Limelight Life
2022
Blue Note
6/1
Leena prepares a meal for two and leaves her cottage to pick up her husband Boris from the hospital. The nurse warns them of his condition, but they’v...
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Blue Note
2026
Sukkwan Island
5/2
In an effort to reconnect with his estranged father, 13-year-old Roy agrees to spend a formative year of adventure on the remote Sukkwan Island deep i...
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Sukkwan Island
2023
The Good Driver
5.6/5
Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, a...
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The Good Driver
2012
Naked Harbour
5.8/49
In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junk...
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Naked Harbour
2016
Flowers of Evil
5.1/20
Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and...
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Flowers of Evil
2025
Orenda
6/6
Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves O...
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Orenda
2013
Dagmamman
0/0
Malla and her husband are drifting apart. When Malla gets a new daycare child, she understands how lonely she is.
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Dagmamman
2020
Tove
6.6/74
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on p...
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Tove
2020
The Explosion of a Swimming Ring
6/1
The dissolution of a family in 10 minutes.
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The Explosion of a Swimming Ring
2021
Future Remains
0/0
The Finnish designer Henrik Wahlforss had a flourishing career in industrial design and innovation in the 1970s. In 1980, he decided, however, to leav...
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Future Remains
2022
JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Riddle of the Scorpion
5.9/7
As people in Valleby are looking forward to Valleby Day, a thief suddenly strikes and carries out a series of thefts, leaving behind symbols linked to...
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JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Riddle of the Scorpion
2025
Safe House
6.75/16
The civil war rages in the Central African Republic, Linn (35) leads a team of aid workers who are working tirelessly to save lives in a field hospita...
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Safe House
2024
Deck 5B
0/0
On the parking deck of a ferry a mother full of desire has to make a choice between her parental duty and the love she's been waiting for.
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Deck 5B
2025
The Elf
4.5/6
Siblings Lumi and Talvi are separated as children. In search of her sister, Lumi ends up in Elfland, where elves prepare Christmas presents for all th...
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The Elf
2026
Tell Everyone
0/0
Amanda Aaltonen refuses to resign herself to the miserable fate of a poor woman and daringly seeks her happiness in the world. As punishment for break...
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Tell Everyone
2025
Therapy
0/0
Therapist Leena and her soon-to-be ex-husband Pekka run a relationship camp in the midst of their own painful break-up. The participants are all very...
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