Sannamaija Pekkarinen

Career

Sannamaija Pekkarinen is best known for her role as Heli Sievinen in the Finnish drama series Salatut elämät. She joined the series in the spring of 2004, and left the show in the fall of 2007. She later returned to the series in the fall, 2009, as her character came back from Paris. She left the show again in the spring of 2011, but has visited it in the spring of 2012, the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015. Pekkarinen's character Heli is openly lesbian. Pekkarinen has been a narrator in a Finnish reality series Sub Marine, for which she is lesser known.