Saga Becker

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Saga Becker
File:Saga Becker in 2015.jpg
Saga Becker in 2015
Born 1988
Eringsboda, Sweden
Residence Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Actress
Years active 2006–present
Known for Something Must Break (2014)[1]

Saga Becker (born 1988) is a Swedish actress and transgender woman.[2] Becker is known for her work on Something Must Break (2014) for which she was nominated for a Rising Star Award at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2014 and won a Guldbagge Award for Best Female Lead Role in 2015.

Early life

Becker grew up in Eringsboda, Sweden, in a wooded area outside Ronneby. Today she resides in Stockholm.[3] Becker is the eldest child of her parents and has two younger brothers.[4]

As a child she knew she was different and tried to create a dream world where she saw herself as a girl, falling in love with a man. In school, she was bullied and received death threats and as a result of the harassment began to drink alcohol, and both starve and cut herself.[4]

Career

She made her film debut in director Ester Martin Bergsmark's movie Something Must Break (2014)[1] which was based on the novel You Are the Roots That Sleep at My Feet and Keep the Earth in Place by sv (Eli Levén).[5] In April 2014, Becker traveled to New York for the premiere showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.[6] For her role as the character Sebastian/Ellie in the film she won a Guldbagge Award for Best Female Lead Role in 2015 and thereby became the first transgender actress both to be nominated and win a Guldbagge Award.[7][8][9]

Becker was nominated for a Rising Star Award at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2014.[10] In 2015 Becker became the ambassador for the organization Suicide Zero, an organization that works to prevent suicides.[11] Becker had talked about being suicidal before her gender reassignment operation.[11] Becker will, working with Suicide Zero, focus on transgender and gay people at risk.[11]

Becker has demanded that the Swedish film industry give more roles to transgender actors and actresses.[12] In March 2015, Becker became the first person to get tested for HIV at the RFSL's new testing station Testpoint in Stockholm as it had its opening day.[13] Earlier, in February 2015, she had been a guest at the TV4 talk show Malou Efter Tio presented by Malou von Sivers.[14]

On 3 July 2015, Becker hosted Sommar i P1, broadcast on Sveriges Radio, where she talked about her career and her life as a transgender actress[3] and described her life experience as a transgender person by saying, <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Sometimes life has edges, sharp jagged edges that can cut ... and I cut myself all the time for it is difficult to live in a world if one does not exist. To deny oneself to fit in is stressful for both the body and the psyche. Not being able to be [myself] could mean the end. I can not lie anymore. This is my truth.[4]

Awards

Year Recipient/Nominated work Award Result
2014 Something Must Break Stockholm Film Festival Rising Star Award Nominated
2015 Guldbagge Award, Best Female Lead Role Won

References

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External links

  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons


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