Melinda Kinnaman

Melinda Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actress who began performing as a child. Born in Stockholm, she was thirteen when she took the role of the tomboy Saga in Lasse Hallström's My Life as a Dog (1985), a performance that brought her a best young actress prize at the Youth in Film Awards. She trained at Sweden's National Academy of Mime and Acting from 1991 to 1994, then joined the ensemble of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where her parts included Iphigenia at Aulis, The Taming of the Shrew, The Cherry Orchard, No Exit, Woyzeck, The Merchant of Venice and The House of Bernarda Alba. She also worked in circus-inflected theater, notably Robert Lepage's staging of A Dream Play and an acrobatic Romeo and Juliet, and shared the title role of Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999). On television she led the thriller series Modus from 2015 to 2017.