Years active 1994-present Name Beata Harju | Role Actress Movies Moomins on the Riviera | |
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Born May 1990 (age 25) Helsinki, Finland Occupation Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Actress, Voice Over Artist Similar People Annina Enckell, Xavier Picard, Leslie Stewart, Hanna Hemila, Lars Jansson | ||
Beata Harju (born in May, 1990) is a Finnish-born actress and filmmaker. Her most notable filmmaking credits include screenwriter and Mymble for Moomins on the Riviera (2014), based on Tove Jansson's beloved comic strips, and assistant director for the 24-episode TV-series Tommys Supersoffa (2013). In 2011, Beata and her fellow filmmakers won Duran Duran’s worldwide Genero.TV competition, becoming the official music video of their single, “ Safe: In the Heat of the Moment”. She made her national theatre acting debut in 2012 as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Jane in August: Osage County at Svenska Teatern, the Swedish National Theatre in Helsinki, Finland. In Moomins on the Riviera, Beata plays the Mymble in Finnish and Swedish, and the Ship's Cat and Maid in the British English version.
Beata is an alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College and the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, as well as Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland.