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Elina Salo
Birth at
9 March 1936
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Elina Salo was born on March 9, 1936 in Sipoo, Finland. She began her film career in 1956. She first got a small role in the film "Tyttö tuli taloon" (Director Veikko Itkonen), and then in the same year played a major role in Arne Tarkas' film "Rintamalotta". It was this director who invited the actress to his films and later, until the end of the 1950s she played in three of his films. And over the next decade, another five. In 1969, Salo made her television debut, appearing in the Swedish TV series
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Elina Salo was born on March 9, 1936 in Sipoo, Finland.
She began her film career in 1956. She first got a small role in the film "Tyttö tuli taloon" (Director Veikko Itkonen), and then in the same year played a major role in Arne Tarkas' film "Rintamalotta". It was this director who invited the actress to his films and later, until the end of the 1950s she played in three of his films. And over the next decade, another five. In 1969, Salo made her television debut, appearing in the Swedish TV series Mumintrollet.
In the late 1980s, the actress began to collaborate with one of the most famous Finnish directors - Aki Kaurismäki. She starred in his film Hamlet Goes to Business (1987), then in The Match Factory Girl (1990), Save Your Headcarf, Tatiana (1994), Clouds Sail Away (1996), Juha (1999) and, of course, Man Without a Past (2002).
All these years Elina Salo also worked actively in the theater, on the radio and was engaged in the voiceover of animated films (Kukon ja kanan sauna, 1991).