Josephine Bornebusch

She was born 12 September 1981.^[1]

Bornebusch was involved in Vår teater, a children's theatre, as a child.^[2] She began her acting career in the Swedish drama series Rederiet in 1999 and a year later, she starred alongside Alexander Skarsgård in the films White Water Fury and Wings of Glass.^[3][4] In 2002, Bornebusch again acted in a film alongside Skarsgård as one of the lead roles of the film The Dog Trick.^[5] She starred in the comedy show Playa del Sol on SVT1.^[6] She was also one of the regular hosts of Fredag Hela Veckan, a Swedish version of Saturday Night Live. She starred as the character "Mickan" in the comedy series Solsidan.^[6]

Bornebusch is a writer, associate producer, and female lead opposite Greg Poehler in Welcome to Sweden which was broadcast on TV4 in Sweden and on NBC in the United States.^[4] The series was cancelled on 28 July 2015.^[7]

She made her directorial debut in 2018 with Lasse-Majas detektivbyrå – Det första mysteriet [sv].^[1]

Bornebusch wrote and directed the TV series Älska mig in which she also plays the lead role, the series premiered in October 2019, with a second season starting in April 2020.^[8] In 2020 she directed Orca, that she co-wrote with Gunnar AK Järvstad. She wrote, directed, and played the leading role in the 2024 Netflix film Släpp taget (English language Let Go).^[9]

In July 2014, Bornebusch revealed that she was pregnant with her first child.^[10] In late August of the same year, she gave birth to a son.^[11] In November 2016, her second child, a daughter, was born.