Pernilla August

Q: Has Pernilla August won any major awards?

Yes, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in 'The Best Intentions' in 1992.

Q: What was Pernilla August's first film?

Pernilla August made her film debut in the 1980 movie 'The Man on the Roof', which marked the beginning of her acting career.

Q: What is Pernilla August's most successful film?

One of her most successful films is 'Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace', which became a global blockbuster upon its release in 1999.

Q: Is Pernilla August involved in directing?

Yes, Pernilla August has directed several films and television series, showcasing her talent behind the camera as well as in front of it.

Q: What is Pernilla August's estimated net worth?

Pernilla August's estimated net worth is around 3 million USD, reflecting her successful career in acting and directing.

Q: What are some notable milestones in Pernilla August's career?

Notable milestones include her Cannes Film Festival win, her role in the Star Wars franchise, and her work as a director in Swedish cinema.

Q: What is known about Pernilla August's personal life?

Pernilla August was married to Börje Ahlstedt from 1991 to 1997 and has two children, Ellen and a son whose name is not publicly known.

Known for

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace poster

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

1999 / Action, Adventure / 136 min

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge...

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones poster

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2002 / Action, Adventure / 142 min

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy...

Name

Pernilla August

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

13 April 1958, Stockholm, Sweden

Spouses

Börje Ahlstedt (1991–1997)

Children

2, Ellen Ahlstedt, and a son whose name is not publicly known.

Parents

Bertil August and Ingrid August

Estimated Net Worth

3 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV To Cook a Bear In Northern Sweden, 1852, a new pastor and his family arrive in Kengis, a village riddled with disorder.	Madam Sjödahl	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2025	Movie The Dance Club Johannes, an eccentric psychology student, takes us on a twisted journey. Together with performance artist Rakel, he forms an unconventional...	Charlotte	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2024	TV Jana - Marked For Life During an investigation into the murder of a high-ranking official at the Swedish Migration Agency, the main suspect is also...	Margaretha Berzelius	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2024	TV Midsummer Night Carina brings her family together for a traditional Swedish midsummer, but the happy occasion goes awry when long-held secrets start...	Carina	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2024	TV Ronja the Robber's Daughter Loving, loyal and unafraid, the daughter of a wanted robber chief makes a secret friend in her father's magical and...	Valdir	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	TV Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled The life of a Norwegian icon, a world-renowned artist and a dedicated humanitarian: actress Liv Ullmann.	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2023	Movie Surprise As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received...	Ingrid	Not rated
2023	TV Blackwater Set in the 1970s, Blackwater tells the story of how four random people's lives converge after two tourists are found...	Annie Raft (1991)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2021	TV Young Royals Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than...	Queen Kristina	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2021	Movie The Ape Star The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps...	Gorilla (voice)	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2020	TV The Investigation Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.	Ingrid Wall	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Building Happiness The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the...	Self - Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2020	TV The Last Journey Of The Vikings Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the...	Narrator	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	TV The Last Journey Of The Vikings Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the...	Voice	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2019	Movie Bergman Revisited As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected...	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	TV Face to Face Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept...	Maja	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	TV Allt jag inte minns Samuel dies in a car crash. His mother searches for truths in the memories of those closest to him. Based...	Gunilla	Not rated
2019	TV Mästaren	Self	Not rated
2019	Movie Swoon John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world...	Elin Lindgren	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	Movie Britt-Marie Was Here Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most...	Britt-Marie	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2018	Movie Kursk Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine...	Oksana	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Bergman: A Year in a Life The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2018	Movie Filmworker The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2018	Movie Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip. Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter...	Karin Bergman	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Bergman's Reliquarium A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2018	Movie Scenes in the Night Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get...	Marianne	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2017	Movie Law of the Land A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western...	Britta	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	Movie Michael Nyqvist - Ett porträtt	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie White People The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison...	Viktoria	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2015	TV Glitch A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead...	Nicola Heysen	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2014	Movie Gentlemen Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants:...	Greta	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	TV The Legacy The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	Movie Trespassing Bergman In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the...	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie The Last Sentence Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the...	Maja Forssman	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie Call Girl Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs,...	Dagmar Glans	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	Movie Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected...	Sara Landhag	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2009	Movie A Rational Solution Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep...	Karin	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2009	Movie Miss Kicki Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother...	Kicki	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie Kenny Begins Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his...	Rektorn	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	TV Skavlan Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	TV Star Wars: The Clone Wars Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the...	Shmi (voice)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2007	Movie Women and Bergman A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Those Who Whisper Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old...	Anna Gustavsson	Not rated
2007	TV Performances The series is in six sections. Each section is based on one of the 6 main characters' experiences , and...	Eva	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Løven - Henrik Ibsen We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative...	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	Movie Search Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that...	Madelene	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2005	Movie Mouth to Mouth The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug...	Leyla	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2005	Movie Doxa Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's...	Kristina	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Manslaughter A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of...	Nina	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie Rancid Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2004	Movie Day and Night Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife,...	Eva	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	Movie Eiffel Tower A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower...	Lena	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Terrorman Satirical animation about Terrorman.	(voice)	Not rated
2003	TV Håkan Bråkan When Håkan's mother Karin, who usually does most of the work in the family, becomes so stressed at the beginning...	Världsrymdens ledare	Not rated
2003	Movie Daybreak Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance...	Agnes	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	Movie Details Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads...	Ann	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2003	Movie Holy Birgitta Saint Birgitta is probably the strangest woman in Swedish history - mother of eight, prophet, politician and the only Swede...	Heliga Birgitta	Not rated
2002	Movie Everyone Loves Alice A love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in these people's everyday lives,...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie Karlsson on the Roof A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that’s Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn’t...	Mamma	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2002	Movie A Love Affair A short Swedish drama feature.	Anna	Not rated
2002	Movie Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into...	Shmi Skywalker	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2002	Movie I Am Dina In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her...	Hjertrud, Dina's Mother	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2002	TV Karlsson on the Roof Karlsson's grandmother is the world's best racing driver and Karlsson is not so bad either. Kaxige Kirre challenges Karlsson in...	Mamma	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie Deadline The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies...	Beata Ekesjö	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2001	Movie The Beginning: Making Episode I The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary....	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2001	Movie You Do the Best You Can Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor"...	Self	Not rated
2001	Movie Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Gossip A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen...	Molly Fischer	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2000	Movie Anna A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.	Anna Terlow	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	Movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke...	Emilie	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Light Keeps Me Company Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator....	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2000	Movie The Birthday Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to...	Tove	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1999	Movie Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of...	Mary of Nazareth	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1999	Movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he...	Mamma	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1999	Movie Where The Rainbow Ends "Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's...	Tove	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1999	Movie Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting...	Shmi Skywalker	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1998	Movie In the Presence of a Clown In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting...	Karin Bergman	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie The Last Contract Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to...	Nina Nyman	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1998	Movie The Glass-Blower's Children Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in...	Sofia	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1997	TV Kenny Starfighter Kenny Starfighter fights against the evil lord Dr. Deo.	Kennys Memorymatic (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1997	Movie The Last Yankee "All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1996	Movie Private Confessions Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla...	Anna	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Jerusalem Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.	Karin	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	TV En nämndemans död	Vanja Holm	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie Death of a Juror A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investigation. Gross' wife died...	Vanja Holm	TMDB 1.0 / 10
1992	Movie The Best Intentions In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet...	Anna Bergman	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	TV The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to...	Mamma	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	TV The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to...	Emilie	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1991	TV The Best Intentions The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had...	Anna Bergman	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1989	TV Vildanden The family happiness of the Ekdahls is driven towards a tragic disintegration.	Gina Ekdahl	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1989	Movie Den döende dandyn A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.	Thora Dardel	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1987	Movie The Egg A fantasy about repression and hidden menace.	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1986	Movie The Serpent's Way A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must...	Eva	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1985	Movie Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has...	Ofelia	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1984	TV Fanny and Alexander Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan...	Maj	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1984	TV Hur ska det gå för Pettersson? Rulle has a secret child out of wedlock in Gotland. When she suddenly turns up in Stockholm he doesn't want...	Ingrid	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1983	Movie Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite A film about Alfred Nobel.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1983	Movie Hej du himlen! A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai.	Unknown character	Not rated
1983	Movie Mr. Sleeman Is Coming A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of...	Anne-Marie	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Fanny and Alexander As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a...	Maj	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1981	TV The Guldbagge Awards The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners...	Self - Best Actress winner	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1981	Movie The Rooster In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At...	Åsa Eriksson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1979	Movie Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet 16 year old Linus, living in 1930s Stockholm, dreams of becoming a poet, while working in a bookstore. After visiting...	Abigail	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1975	Movie Giliap In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for...	Girl at Summer Hotel	TMDB 5.5 / 10
TBA	Movie The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie Bergman Revisited As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected...	Director Directing	Not rated
2018	Movie Scenes in the Night Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	Movie A Serious Game In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2014	TV The Legacy The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2010	Movie Beyond One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	Movie Beyond One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie Blindgångare The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an...	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10

The Dance Club

2025 / TMDB 6.3

Surprise

2023

The Ape Star

2021 / TMDB 5.7

Building Happiness

2020

Swoon

2019 / TMDB 6.1

Britt-Marie Was Here

2019 / TMDB 5.2

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