Ritva Hannele Lauri (born 21 July 1952 in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

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) is a

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known for her roles in multiple

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. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a

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and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979).Suomen teatterit ja teatterintekijät 1983, p. 256 The couple divorced in 1994. She was briefly married to Teemu Rinne in the early 2000s. After having studied acting at the

Helsinki Theatre Academy The Theatre Academy ( fi, Teatterikorkeakoulu, sv, Teaterhögskolan) is one of the three academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki and offers education in theatre and dance. It is Finland's largest education provider in its field and, wit ...

, Hannele Lauri began her professional career in the

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...

City Theatre. The period lasted from 1975 till 1977, after which she worked as a free-lancer till 1981. After a short period in the

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she started her ongoing contract with the

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City Theatre in 1983. Her early stage roles include

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. During the same period she was also cast in the movies directed by

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and Jaakko Pakkasvirta. She began to achieve popularity in Finland in the 1980s through her collaboration with

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. She appeared in popular television productions and comedy feature films created by Pasanen and the

Vesa-Matti Loiri Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. According to Yle Ne ...

. She has been in the national limelight ever since. In the 1990s, she starred in the television comedy series ' ("Moving In Together") together with the comedian Eija Vilpas. In 2003 she portrayed the role of a woman going through her menopause in the comedy series ' ("Hot Waves"). In 2010s Hannele Lauri has made several supporting roles in Finnish movies and frequent television appearances along with her stage career.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauri, Hannele 1952 births Living people actresses from Tampere Finnish actresses