Helena Mattsson

Helena Mattsson is a Swedish actress who grew up in Stockholm and began as a model and stage performer, appearing in cabarets such as Wild Side Story before studying theater in London. At 19 she moved to Hollywood to audition for a television series and stayed after landing a part in the unsold 2004 pilot Sweden, Ohio. Her screen debut came in the Swedish slasher Drowning Ghost, and she later starred as an alien-human hybrid in Species: The Awakening (2007). She appeared in Surrogates (2009), Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012), and The Loner (2016), which drew positive reviews. On television she had recurring roles on Desperate Housewives and Nikita and was a regular on 666 Park Avenue. She also appeared on Fargo and had a recurring role on American Horror Story: Hotel. She also starred in the Lifetime thriller My Husband's Secret Wife (2018) and played Britt Ekland in the HBO film My Dinner with Hervé.