Mirja Turestedt graduated from The National Academy of Music and Drama in Sweden in 2002. Since then she has played everything from contemporary drama to Shakespeare, Lagerlof and Strindberg. She's done major parts in television series, TV-theatre and TV-film and played in the largest Nordic film project "Arn: The Knight Templar", as her mother Sigrid did too. She has a bachelor of Arts and speaks fluent English, Spanish, French, Italian and Bulgarian.