Everything To Know About Alma Günther, Breakout Star Of La Palma
Alma Günther is a young Norwegian actress who has recently made a name for herself thanks to the Norwegian disaster miniseries La Palma. Premiering in December 2024 on Netflix, La Palma may not have a good Rotten Tomatoes score, but it has still been trending high on the Netflix charts since it first landed on the service. The series takes some elements from true events, but it is, for the most part, not based on a true story. Over four episodes, we follow the plight of a vacationing Norwegian family on the volcanic island of La Palma.
The cast in La Palma is filled with Norwegian and Spanish actors, and while no one in it could be considered a major Hollywood star, they are all perfectly talented in their own right. Take Alma Günther, who plays Sara, Fredrik (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) and Jennifer's (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) oldest daughter. Like a lot of teenagers, Sara keeps to herself mostly, but she starts to open up after she meets Charlie (Jenny Evensen). It's a good performance from such a young actress and hopefully La Palma is the first of many big roles for the Norwegian actress.
Alma Günther Is An Up-And-Coming Norwegian Actress
Günther Was Born In July 2006
According to some sources like IMDb, Alma Günther was born in July 2006, making her 18 when she appeared in La Palma. Günther got her start in 2020 with a small role as Rikke in the Norwegian series, Neste Sommer. Beyond her acting career, Günther is a talented dancer, boxer, and gymnast (via PanoramaAgency). She, of course, is fluent in Norwegian but is also fluent in English, and has some familiarity with Spanish, which was likely handy while filming a series like La Palma, which is set on an island belonging to Spain.
Alma Günther's Roles Before La Palma
Günther Had A Significant Part In Side Om Side
Alma Günther's career has mostly been marked by appearances in TV shows, though she does have one movie in her filmography. Her only movie role comes in the 2020 holiday comedy, Another Happy Christmas, which is about the Eide family who are gathering together to celebrate the holiday for the first time in years. However, old animosities and secrets resurface as everyone reunites. Günther plays Linn in the film. Günther's first professional screen role came in Neste Sommer, a TV series about Norwegian families striving to have the "perfect" summer.
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Günther plays Rikke in season 7, episode 11, "Hverdagshelt & geitestol". Welcome to Utmark was Günther's first big role. She appears in all eight episodes of the drama series about a small, remote Norwegian town. In 2021, she appeared in season 2, episode 2 of Pørni, a comedy drama series about a single mother trying to take care of her three children, her elderly father, and all the kids she meets at her child welfare job. In the episode, "Stepmother From Hell", Günther plays Elise.
Günther has a supporting role in the series, Side Om Side, as Alex Helgesen, appearing in 27 episodes between seasons 5 and 10. The show tracks three very different families all living in the same area of Oslo, comparing their changing lives over the years. She plays Grensevakt in season 1, episode 9, "Den demokratiske republikk", of Makta, a Norwegian show based on the true power struggle in the Labour Party that occurred in Norway between the 1970s and 1980s.
Günther has also provided voice-dub work for another Netflix show. She voices one of the lead characters, Ezram, in the animated series, The Dragon Prince in the Norwegian dub. The show is a seven-season-long fantasy saga that features elves and humans trying to set aside their differences so that they and the dragons can finally live together in peace
La Palma has been the biggest role of Günther's career, though it could be argued that her part in Side Om Side is more significant.
La Palma has been the biggest role of Günther's career, though it could be argued that her part in Side Om Side is more significant. However, her performance as Sara in La Palma has definitely reached a much larger audience and exposed her to many English-speaking viewers who likely never would have known her. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, who plays Sara's mother in La Palma, Jennifer, previously reached a large non-Norwegian audience with her roles in Westworld as Armistice and her performances in Chernobyl Diaries, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Hercules.
If Günther hopes to keep appearing in more shows and movies that a worldwide audience will be more likely to see, she would do well to follow her La Palma co-star's trajectory. Günther's doing a good job so far, and at only 18, she's already starred in a large Netflix drama. It's likely she'll continue appearing in Norwegian shows and movies in the near future, but with how international movies and TV shows are now so easily available, Günther can work in her native tongue and still be on TV screens across the world.
Theater Career Of Alma Günther
Günther Starred In A Norwegian Play In 2023
Along with her career in television and in movies, Alma Günther has also done work on the stage, and in 2018, she appeared in the play Snøfall as a supporting character named Alvine. In 2023, she starred for the first time in a theater production, For ung til å dø (Too Young to Die). The production ran at the Det Norske Teatret, which is a large, popular theater in Oslo, Norway. The play masterfully depicts the dreams and friendships teenagers have when they are still young and hopeful.
According to an Instagram post by Günther's agency, "Alma commands attention as the leading star." She definitely has a presence about her on screen, so it makes sense she would have the same on the stage. Alma Günther's career has only just started, but she's got it off on the right foot.
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