Alexandra Rapaport | |
Birth Name: | Alexandra Susanna Rapaport |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1971 |
Birth Place: | Bromma, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Occupation: | Actress |
Years Active: | 1996–present |
Spouse: | Joakim Eliasson |
Children: | 2 |
Alexandra Susanna Rapaport (born 26 December 1971 [1] in Bromma) is a Swedish film and stage actress. She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, from which she graduated in 1997. She then worked for Uppsala Theatre before becoming engaged by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she is part of the permanent ensemble and has participated a number of classic plays.
She has featured in more than 40 feature films and TV series, among them the crime series Sandhamn Murders, Gåsmamman and Heder.
Her parents were both from Poland. Her father, Edmund Rapaport (1923–2020), was a Polish Jew who fled to Sweden during World War II and became a statistician. Her mother, Ewa Rapaport (1938–1981), was an architect.
She and her husband, Joakim Eliasson, had a son in 2007 and a daughter in 2010.[2]
She was the aunt of Swedish alpine free-skier Matilda Rapaport, who died in an avalanche accident in 2016.