Pia Tjelta is a Norwegian actress who was born on September 12, 1977. She had acted in some movies and worked a couple of years at theatre Sláva outside of Stockholm in Sweden before she got her breakthrough in Mongoland (2001), a low budget movie recorded in her hometown Stavanger on the west coast of Norway. At the age of 23 she gave birth to her daughter Sofia, but after breaking up with Sofia's father Kyrre Haugen, Pia became a single moother. In 2006 she graduated from Kunsthøgskolen I Oslo with a bachelor degree. Besides playing in movies Pia also works on stage at Det Norske Teater in Oslo, Norway.