Noomi Rapace Net Worth

Noomi Rapace's Quotes

• I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.
• We need more extreme movies in Sweden, personal projects that aren't necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative block to always have the audience as a goal.
• I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story. I hate that. I think it's very boring.
• [on doing fight scenes in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)] I tried to do as much as they allowed me to do. You get bruised, and your body aches, and you hurt yourself, but that's kind of part of it. I am very self-critical, and I don't like to pretend.
• [on how she got the role as Lisbeth Salander] At first, he(Niels Arden Oplev) said no, it may even have been that he thought I was too good-looking. I looked feminine and soft, maybe a bit too girlie, too cute. And of course, Lisbeth had to be more of a tomboy. I said, if you trust me, I'll do anything you want me to do to become her. And he finally agreed.

Interesting Facts about Noomi Rapace

1. She used the holes of her old piercings when she was a young punk rocker in her role as Lisbeth Salander in Män som hatar kvinnor (2009).
2. She has one sister, Særún Norén, who is a photographer.
3. Is half Spanish, half Swedish. Her mother, Nina Norén, is a Swedish actress. Her father, Rogelio de Badajoz (1953-2007), was a Spanish cantador (a Flamenco singer) from Badajoz. Rogelio may have had Romani ancestry.
4. Used some of her husband (Ola Rapace)'s clothing for her wardrobe in the Millennium (2010) film series.
5. Spoke very little English at the time she finished the Lisbeth Salander trilogy. In a determined attempt to master English as quickly as possible, Noomi watched numerous English language movies with native language subtitles disabled, along with hours of television channels such as BBC, CNN, and miscellaneous TV talk shows.
6. Insists on doing her own stunts whenever possible and to the absolute extreme extent a given production will safely permit her to do so.
7. Admires strong women roles such as Anne Parillaud as the indomitable Nikita (1990) and Patricia Arquette's feisty Alabama in True Romance (1993). She was particularly moved by the bloody motel fight scene between Arquette and James Gandolfini, after having watched the movie numerous times.
8. To date, counts her role in Daisy Diamond (2007) as her greatest emotional stretch as an actress. [2012]
9. During her early teens, Noomi went through a period where she aspired to being a punk rocker in the vein of the late Nancy Spungen, one-time girlfriend of Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious.
10. Still speaks fluent Icelandic after having lived in Iceland for only a few years as a child. When she attended the premier of Män som hatar kvinnor (2009) in Iceland, she carried out all her interviews in pitch perfect Icelandic. Also speaks some Spanish and has recently been adding English to the list.
11. Prague, Czech Republic: Filming Child 44. [July 2013]
12. Her all-time favorite films are: True Romance (1993), Raging Bull (1980), Nil by Mouth (1997), Frances (1982) and Rundskop (2011).
13. Rapace speaks Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and English in addition to her native Swedish.
14. In 1996, she made her television debut playing the part of Lucinda Gonzales in the long-running soap series Tre kronor (1994).
15. Left home at the age of 15 to move to Stockholm, Sweden to start her acting career.
16. At the age of five she moved to Iceland with her mother and her stepfather.
17. At the age of seven she got one non-speaking role in an Icelandic movie, then she decided to be an actress.
18. Starred in two movies with Tom Hardy: The Drop (2014) and Child 44 (2015). In both movies they played each other's love interest.
19. Fractured her nose in January 2015 when an elbow accidentally hit her face while filming Unlocked (2017). However, she didn't realize the extent of the injury until much later, so, after a brief blackout, she insisted on carrying on with the scene. As of April 2015, the fracture had healed in a broken state (meaning it would need to be re-broken in order to fix it).
20. Upon marrying, both she and ex-husband Ola Rapace (born Pär Ola Norell) chose to take the surname "Rapace", instead of one spouse taking the name of the other as it is more common. They agreed upon the surname which means "Bird of Prey". The couple has a son, Lev (born 2003).