Pihla Viitala
She studied acting at the Helsinki Theatre Academy and began her career in the late 2000s with feature films such as Ganes (2007) and Tears of April (Käsky, 2008). In 2010, she was named one of Europe's Shooting Stars at the Berlin International Film Festival. She subsequently developed an international career, notably appearing in the American fantasy action film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) and the Italian comedy-drama Latin Lover (2015). On television, she achieved widespread international recognition for her leading role as Detective Sofia Karppi in the crime drama series Deadwind (Karppi, 2018–2021), a performance that earned her the Kultainen Venla Award for Best Actress. She has also featured in the drama series Arctic Circle (Ivalo) and Cold Courage (2020). In cinema, she portrayed the title role in the historical drama Maria's Paradise (Marian paratiisi, 2019).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7173 |
| Birthday | 1982-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Helsinki, Finland |
| Also Known As |
2009
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
4.508/59
An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel ha...
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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
2009
Hellsinki
6.382/51
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
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Hellsinki
2013
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
6.108/7183
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them...
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2011
Elma ja Liisa
5/1
Friends meet after years apart and go on a road trip, to escape from their everyday lives. The trip takes some unexpected turns along the way, but wil...
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Elma ja Liisa
2010
Hustlers
4.556/18
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan...
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Hustlers
2010
Bad Family
6/22
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicion...
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Bad Family
2007
Red Sky
4.882/17
Two friends make a fresh start isolated in an abandoned place of Crete. The arrival of a German woman, awakens the erotic passion, and brings intense...
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Red Sky
2008
Tears of April
5.786/28
There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A li...
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Tears of April
2011
August
4.467/15
Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the du...
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August
2012
Must Have Been Love
6/11
A Finnish-Norwegian love story with an unexpected shape and development. Shot in Oslo, Helsinki, Istanbul and Berlin. The film focuses on showing the...
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Must Have Been Love
2014
Summertime
4.816/19
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is com...
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Summertime
2016
Off Key
4.929/14
Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in lif...
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Off Key
2017
Star Boys
5.867/15
In a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland during the late 1970s, the arrival of the sexual revolution disrupts the balance of two...
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Star Boys
2015
Latin Lover
5.747/81
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a...
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Latin Lover
2017
Man and a Baby
5.357/14
Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Mate...
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Man and a Baby
2018
Stupid Young Heart
5.597/31
When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he bec...
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Stupid Young Heart
2017
Unknown Redux
6.4/8
UNKNOWN REDUX is a short movie by Anssi Määttä and Antti Tuominen, where events depicted happen in a fictitious Finland and it's alternative history.
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Unknown Redux
2018
Void
6.286/21
Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her internationa...
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Void
2019
Maria's Paradise
5.4/10
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standi...
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Maria's Paradise
2017
Honeybunnies
4.583/12
A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
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Honeybunnies
2017
Liar Girl
5/1
Liina lives together with her mother. Her mother is often working night shifts so Liina needs to get by alone. In the same building is an apartment wh...
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Liar Girl
2009
Playground
4/11
German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.
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Playground
2009
One Foot Under
4.5/10
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few...
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One Foot Under
2026
Hippo Love
0/0
Two strangers meet at a Greek-Finnish wedding while going through their own breakups. Touko, a musician who has had little success and is still marrie...
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Hippo Love
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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Therapy
2026
Vinski 2
0/0
The town of Hömpstad is once again under threat from criminals and Vinski's help is needed. When the criminals manage to steal the invisibility powder...
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