---
name: "Pirkko Saisio"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pirkko-saisio"
fi1m_id: "pirkko-saisio"
imdb_id: "nm0756820"
tmdb_id: 1200385
wikidata_id: "Q465950"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 April 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T04:34:36.193145+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Pirkko Saisio

## Identity

Pirkko Saisio

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pirkko-saisio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pirkko-saisio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0756820
- **TMDB ID:** 1200385
- **Wikidata ID:** Q465950
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirkko_Saisio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465950, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200385

Actor. Born 16 April 1949 in Helsinki, Finland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 April 1949, Helsinki, Finland
- **Also known as:** Eva Wein, Jukka Larsson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirkko_Saisio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465950, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200385

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Nightborn*](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Pirkko Saisio is a Finnish author, actress and director. She trained at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki and has written novels, plays, screenplays and other works, sometimes under the pen names Jukka Larsson and Eva Wein. Her debut novel *Elämänmeno* (1975) received the J. H. Erkko Award, and she won the Finlandia Prize in 2003 for *Punainen erokirja*.

Saisio has appeared in films including *Concrete Night* (2013), for which she wrote the screenplay adapted from her novel, *Helene* (2020) and *Orenda* (2025). She played Saga's mother in the 2026 film *Nightborn*. She is the mother of actress Elsa Saisio and lives in a civil partnership with director Pirjo Honkasalo.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nightborn* (2026), Fi1m 62, as Saga's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nightborn* (2026), as Saga's Mother — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md)
- *Orenda* (2025), as Natalia · Writer
- *Helene* (2020), as Olga Schjerfbeck
- *Concrete Night* (2013), Novel, Screenplay
- *Tehdas* (2012), series, Writer, Creator
- *Prime Minister* (2009), as Tarja Halonen
- *The 3 Rooms of Melancholia* (2004), as Narrator
- *Lovers & Leavers* (2002), as Leila Vaara
- *Fire-Eater* (1998), Writer
- *Da Capo* (1985), Dialogue
- *Juhannushäät* (1979), as Sotilaskotisisar · Screenplay
- *Elämänmeno* (1978), series, Writer, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Pirkko Saissio in 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/5530339/gallery-a0e8e12a5b02.jpg) Pirkko Saissio in 2025. — Vogler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Pirkko_Saisio_2025.jpg/1280px-Pirkko_Saisio_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Pirkko Saisio, Finnish writer and director, Finnish National Theatre, Helsinki, September 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/5530339/gallery-98a6527e64b3.jpg) Pirkko Saisio, Finnish writer and director, Finnish National Theatre, Helsinki, September 2011. — Teemu Rajala, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Pirkko_Saisio_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pirkko Saisio at Helsinki Book Fair, 2016](https://film.one/media/person/5530339/gallery-ed6ec056026b.jpg) Pirkko Saisio at Helsinki Book Fair, 2016 — Paasikivi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Pirkko_Saisio_Helsingin_kirjamessuilla_2016.jpg/1280px-Pirkko_Saisio_Helsingin_kirjamessuilla_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Finnish writer (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/5530339/gallery-ca2796641c9d.jpg) Finnish writer (2026) — Kotivalo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pirkko_Saisio_Turku_2026_III.jpg/1280px-Pirkko_Saisio_Turku_2026_III.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Finnish writer (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/5530339/gallery-807fb5aad423.jpg) Finnish writer (2026) — Kotivalo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Pirkko_Saisio_Turku_2026_I.jpg/1280px-Pirkko_Saisio_Turku_2026_I.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won, 1 nominated

- Nordic Council Literature Prize 2026: Nordic Council Literature Prize (nominated)
- Runeberg Prize 2025: Runeberg Prize (won)
- Aleksis Kivi Award 2016: Aleksis Kivi Award (won)
- Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland 2007: Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland (won)
- Finlandia Award 2003: Finlandia Award (won), for *The Red Book of Farewells*
- Prix Lea 1986: Prix Lea (won)
- Finnish State Prize for Literature 1985: Finnish State Prize for Literature (won)
- J. H. Erkko Award 1975: J. H. Erkko Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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