Malin Kristina Buska, (born 15 March 1984) is a Swedish actress. She was born and grew up in

Övertorneå Övertorneå ( fit, Matarengi; fi, Matarenki) is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Övertorneå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 1,917 inhabitants in 2010. It is located at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to ...

and studied in

Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; smj, Luleju; fi, Luulaja) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban core (2018) and is the seat of Lu ...

. She has acted at the Luleå Stadsteater and studied acting at Teaterhögskolan in Malmö between 2004 and 2007. She made her film debut in 2011 in the film ''Happy End''. Buska also had a role in the film '' Easy Money III: Life Deluxe'' and the leading role in the 2015 film ''

The Girl King ''The Girl King'' is a 2015 biographical drama about Christina, Queen of Sweden. It was directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Michel Marc Bouchard who, after writing the screenplay for the film, wrote his stage play ''Christine, La Reine-Gar ...

'', a biographical drama about

Christina, Queen of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death a ...

. In 2018 Buska joined the cast of British TV series, ''

A Discovery of Witches ''A Discovery of Witches'' is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after findin ...

''. In 2011, she was awarded the Rising Star award at the

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. At the

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-gala in 2015, she was announced as Best Dressed Woman of the Year.

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* Living people 1984 births Swedish actresses {{Sweden-actor-stub