Frida Farrell
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Frida Farrell was the eldest of three siblings growing up in Malmö, a
city with three hundred thousand inhabitants in southern Sweden. Her
interest for acting awoke at the age of six when her grandmother took
her to the theater to see Romeo And Juliet. Soon after, her mother
enrolled her into a youth theatre group. Frida had spent nine years
training ballet, but breaking her knee cap while ice-skating at age 12
sadly put a halt to any dancing career. Frida was discovered on a
street corner by a French modeling agency when she was 13. At age 16,
Frida moved to Paris to work as a model. Her modeling work took her all
around the world: to Milan, Paris, and New York. But Frida's real
passion was for acting, so at the height of her modeling career at age
22, she moved from New York City to London and soon after was accepted
into the Central School of Speech and Drama, one of London's most
prestigious drama schools. After finding her in a small theatre
production of West End, director
Johnny Williams booked Frida
in a lead role for her first feature film,
Tan Lines (2005), which took home an
award for Best Cinematography at the 2005 New York International Film
and Video Festival. Frida went on to act in three more features in
London: the horror flick
Venus Drowning (2006),
Afterman 2 (2005), and another horror,
Messages (2007), with
Jeff Fahey, before deciding to take the "big
step" and move to the Los Angeles. Although she did not know a single
person in town, Frida managed to get a high-profile ICM agent's direct
number. With nothing to lose, Frida called the ICM agent, who agreed to
take a meeting. Since that day, Frida has starred as a guest in
Bones (2005) on FOX, completed six
feature films, and won an award for "Breakout Female Star in a Feature"
at the AOFF in Hollywood for her star performance in
Contract Killers (2008) with
Nick Mancuso, which has won another
four awards including a few "Best Pictures," one of them against Tom
Hanks' film The Great Buck Howard. She has completed more than six
additional feature films including
Stiletto (2008) with
Tom Berenger and
Michael Biehn.