Elena Leeve

{{Short description|Finnish actress (born 1983)}} thumb|200px|Leeve in 2009 '''Elena Maire Karin Leeve''' (born 1 February 1983 in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress who has worked on television, in films and on stage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elena Leeve|url=https://www.elonet.fi/fi/henkilo/255829|publisher=KAVA|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref> She received a Jussi Award as the Best Leading Actress for her work in a Pirjo Honkasalo film ''Fire-Eater'' in 1999. In 2009, she won her second Jussi for the leading role in a film ''Putoavia enkeleitä''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jussi-palkinnot löysivät omistajansa|url=http://www.iltalehti.fi/leffat/200902019013276_le.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203085749/http://iltalehti.fi/leffat/200902019013276_le.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 3, 2009|publisher=Iltalehti|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==

===Films===

*''Fire-Eater'' (1998) *''Cyclomania'' (2001) *''Beauty and the Bastard'' (2005) *''Ganes'' (2007) *''Putoavia enkeleitä'' (2008) *''Risto'' (2011) *''August Fools'' (2013) *''Kikka!'' (2022)

===Television=== *''M/S Romantic'' (2019)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0498808}}

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leeve, Elena}} Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Helsinki Category:20th-century Finnish actresses Category:Finnish film actresses Category:Finnish television actresses Category:21st-century Finnish actresses