Actress Elsa Turakainen didn’t mind her type roles.
Elsa Turakainen plays the role of the hostess Loviisa in the movie Niskavuori taitailee. Over
Published in 1957 Niskavuori is fighting Elsa Turakainen will be seen in the main role of the film.
Turakainen was born in Helsinki in August 1904. At that time, the city was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the country’s independence still had to wait a long time.
Turakainen’s first film role was a 1928 film On the edge of the swordin which she played the second female lead.
Before his film role, Turakainen attended the Finnish Stage Academy. He was a fixed actor on the Vyborg stage from 1928 to 1934, for example.
Turakainen had up to sixty film roles by 1979. She became known for both motherly roles and hostess roles.
It is one of the most famous of these Neck mountain-films’ old mistress Loviisa. Although Turakainen was a victim of type roles, he did not take this as a bad thing. On the contrary, he told Katso magazine in an interview in 1972, that he feels the type roles as his own, survives Kavin from the pages.
He described Niskavuori’s old landlady as a “genuine person” and a “strong Finnish woman”.
– I think we all have the old lady of Niskavuori at some point in our lives, she said about her character.
Love
Turakainen was married to actor Artturi Laakso from 1935.
The couple acted in joint plays on the Vyborg stage. The couple is photographed together Car girl– in connection with the play. The image saved by the National Museum Agency is dated to the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.
In the picture, Turakainen has a typical flapper-length bangs of the time. Laakso is in costume, and his official outfit is decorated with a cap.
The couple married in 1935, a few years after the photo was taken. The newly married couple had their only child, A sparrowa year later.
The couple’s love lasted, and they remained married for 57 years, until Turakainen’s death.
Turakainen died in 1992. He was 87 years old when he died. Like Laakso, he is buried in the Hietaniemi cemetery.
Niskavuori fights can be seen at Yle Areena.