Kati Outinen
Biography
Kati Outinen is a Finnish actress who built her international reputation through the leading female parts in films by Aki Kaurismäki, winning particular attention in Germany and France. Born in Helsinki, she trained under Jouko Turkka and first drew notice in Tapio Suominen's generational classic Täältä tullaan elämä in 1980, playing a tough girl. Alongside a varied list of theater and television drama roles at home, she began working with Kaurismäki on Shadows in Paradise (1986). Cannes awarded her Best Actress in 2002 for The Man Without a Past (2002), and she later reunited with Kaurismäki for The Other Side of Hope (2017). Her other screen work includes Dark Crimes (2016) with Jim Carrey, and she also contributed to the screenplay of the soap opera Salatut elämät, voiced parts in the animation series Babar and the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and taught acting at Helsinki's Theatre Academy between 2002 and 2013.
65years old
Turns 66 on August 17in 308 days
- Born Helsinki
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Anna Katriina Outinen (birth name)Also credited as Anna Kati Outinen and Katriina Outinen
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 39 years1986 to 2025
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Big break
Outinen got her breakthrough playing a tough girl in Täältä tullaan elämä, a youth film from 1980 that Tapio Suominen directed and that became a generational classic.
Early training
Outinen was a student of Jouko Turkka while he led drama studies in Finland, yet she has never been linked to the "turkkalaisuus" acting methodology.
A change of course
From 2002 to 2013, Outinen held a professorship in acting at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, where she taught the subject.
Beyond film
Outinen has also lent her voice to the character Ritva Tuomivaara in the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, which came out in 2017.
Kati Outinen movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Aki Kaurismäki directed eight of these films. Elina Salo appears in six of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Elina Salo's page
Sakari Kuosmanen's page
Esko Nikkari's page
Markku Peltola's page
Matti Pellonpää's page
Janne Hyytiäinen's page
All films by Aki Kaurismäki
Also three films together1 more actor
- Outi MäenpääThe Man Without a Past (2002), Juha (1999) and The Match Factory Girl (1990)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Kati Outinen's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$18.8 million
5 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 5 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 10 figure not found.
- 5Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 10Figure not found
Highest grossing
The five biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$9.6M50.7% of the total
- 2$4.2M22.4% of the total
- 3$3.4M17.9% of the total
- 4$1.7M8.8% of the total
- 5$21K0.1% of the total
Awards
Six awards and honors from 1991 to 2025, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannes Film Festival | |||
| 2002 | Best Actress | The Man Without a Past | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 2025 | Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland | Won | |
| 2005 | Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland | Won | |
| 2003 | Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress | The Man Without a Past | Won |
| 1997 | Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress | Drifting Clouds | Won |
| 1991 | Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress | The Match Factory Girl | Won |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.