Lisette Pia Hee Young Pagler, (born 5 January 1981) is a South-Korean-Swedish musical singer and actress, best known internationally for her role as an intelligent
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in the TV series ''
Real Humans''.
Early life
Pagler grew up in
Nättraby
Nättraby is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 3,109 inhabitants in 2010. Within the parish to the west is the hamlet of Bjärby.
On 25 April 1895, a was opened between Nättraby ...
, and was educated at the ballet academy's musical department in
Gothenburg
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.
She got her big break after winning
Sveriges Television
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talent show ''Jakten på Julia'', in which the winner won the female lead in the musical ''
Romeo and Juliet
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'' (based on
the Shakespeare play), opposite singer
Måns Zelmerlöw.
Career
Pagler is a
mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...
singer, and in 2004 she took part in the musical ''Stoppa världen! – Jag vill kliva av''.
She reunited with Måns Zelmerlöw for the season finale of ''
Allsång på Skansen'' in August 2010. Since 2012, Pagler has played Mimi/Anita, a hubot (robot that looks human), as a main cast member in the
science fiction television series ''
Äkta Människor'' (''Real Humans''), which is broadcast on SVT.
She has also had roles in the musicals ''
Cats
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'' and ''
Singin' in the Rain
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''.
Filmography
References
External links
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1981 births
Living people
South Korean emigrants to Sweden
Swedish film actresses
Swedish musical theatre actresses
Swedish television actresses
21st-century Swedish actresses
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers