Satu Silvo

Career

After having studied acting at the Theater School from 1981 till 1985, Silvo began her professional career in the Helsinki City Theater. Since 1994 she has worked as a freelancer. While still at the Theater School, Silvo was cast as the female lead in the epic feature film Niskavuori directed by Matti Kassila. In 1986 she played the main character in The Snow Queen. In the 1990s she had several leading roles in Finnish feature films, both comical and dramatic. In the five comical Pekko films created and directed by Timo Koivusalo she played Pipsa, the central female character.

In theater she has played leading roles in a variety of drama plays as well as in multiple comedy and farce pieces. Her roles include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Anja in the Finnish drama play Eteisiin ja kynnyksille. She has also played in musicals such as Annie, Chicago and Nine.

In 1998 she hosted her own television show Satua ja totta ("Truth and Make-Believe").

In the 2000s and 2010s she has made several supporting roles in Finnish feature films alongside her stage career which includes several female leads in theatrical productions of The Comedy Theater Arena and Ryhmäteatteri, both in Helsinki.

As an entrepreneur she has run a vegetarian restaurant in Hakaniemi, Helsinki since 1998. From 2001 till 2007 she was the co-owner of the Hotel Satulinna in Hirvensalmi.

Private life

In 1986 Silvo married the actor Heikki Kinnunen (b. 1946) with whom she has a son and a daughter. The couple divorced in 2002. The daughter Vilma Kinnunen has played a couple of supporting roles in Finnish television productions. Since the early 2010s Silvo has been romantically involved with the writer and actor Reidar Palmgren (b. 1966).

In 1998 she suffered life-threatening injuries in an alpine ski accident in Saariselkä, Lapland, but has since fully recovered.

Television series