Known For: Swedish actress (born 1981)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, television presenter, director, author, television producer, film director
Country: Russia
City: Stockholm
Date of Birth: Saturday, 12 September 1981
Leyla Jerrie Josephine Bornebusch is a Swedish actress and director.
BirthPlace | Stockholm |
Education | Q8008661 |
Wikipedia | Josephine_Bornebusch |
Bornebusch was involved in Vår teater, a children's theatre, as a child. She began her acting career in the Swedish drama series Rederiet in 1999 and a year later, she starred alongside Alexander Skarsgård in the films White Water Fury and Wings of Glass. In 2002, Bornebusch again acted in a film alongside Skarsgård as one of the lead roles of the film The Dog Trick. She starred in the comedy show Playa del Sol on SVT1. She was also one of the regular hosts of Fredag Hela Veckan, a Swedish version of Saturday Night Live. She starred as the character "Mickan" in the comedy series Solsidan. Bornebusch is a writer, associate producer, and female lead opposite Greg Poehler in Welcome to Sweden which was broadcast on TV4 in Sweden and on NBC in the United States. The series was cancelled on 28 July 2015. Bornebusch wrote and directed the TV series Älska mig in which she also plays the lead role, the series premiered in October 2019, with a second season starting in April 2020. In 2020 she directed Orca, that she co-wrote with Gunnar AK Järvstad.