Meri Nenonen

Acting

Meri Nenonen

Born January 1, 1973 · Helsinki, Finland (age 53)

Meri Nenonen is a Finnish film and television actress and singer.

Known For

The PairlessThe Pairless · 2018
The Pairless
4.02018
MovieComedyDrama
Old friends Masa and Tapsa have very different life situations: Masa is happily married but Tapsa has recently lost his wife and is a single-parent. Masa tries to help Tapsa inviting him to a pottery class. However the whole pottery class begins to help Masa and soon all the lonely ones in the class open up to each other.
Producing AdultsProducing Adults · 2004
Producing Adults
5.22004
MovieDramaComedy
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Tom of FinlandTom of Finland · 2017
Tom of Finland
6.62017
MovieDrama
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
An Eye for an EyeAn Eye for an Eye · 1999
An Eye for an Eye
6.51999
MovieHorrorDrama
Sisters Kiia and Eija moved away from the village of Pirunperä in Kainuu after their father committed suicide. Kiia has become a sculptor and is plagued by nightmares related to her home village. Kiia returns to her hometown to create sculptures for the local church. At the same time, she investigates her father's and her hometown's past.
Twisted RootsTwisted Roots · 2009
Twisted Roots
4.82009
MovieDrama
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
Conversations Between MenConversations Between Men · 2013
Conversations Between Men
2013
MovieDrama
After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.
AmidstAmidst · 2024
Amidst
2024
MovieDrama
Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!
Jill and Joy's WinterJill and Joy's Winter · 2015
Jill and Joy's Winter
5.62015
MovieFamily
Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.

Movies

The PairlessThe Pairless · 2018
The Pairless
4.02018
MovieComedyDrama
Old friends Masa and Tapsa have very different life situations: Masa is happily married but Tapsa has recently lost his wife and is a single-parent. Masa tries to help Tapsa inviting him to a pottery class. However the whole pottery class begins to help Masa and soon all the lonely ones in the class open up to each other.
Producing AdultsProducing Adults · 2004
Producing Adults
5.22004
MovieDramaComedy
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Tom of FinlandTom of Finland · 2017
Tom of Finland
6.62017
MovieDrama
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
An Eye for an EyeAn Eye for an Eye · 1999
An Eye for an Eye
6.51999
MovieHorrorDrama
Sisters Kiia and Eija moved away from the village of Pirunperä in Kainuu after their father committed suicide. Kiia has become a sculptor and is plagued by nightmares related to her home village. Kiia returns to her hometown to create sculptures for the local church. At the same time, she investigates her father's and her hometown's past.
Twisted RootsTwisted Roots · 2009
Twisted Roots
4.82009
MovieDrama
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
Conversations Between MenConversations Between Men · 2013
Conversations Between Men
2013
MovieDrama
After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.
AmidstAmidst · 2024
Amidst
2024
MovieDrama
Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!
Jill and Joy's WinterJill and Joy's Winter · 2015
Jill and Joy's Winter
5.62015
MovieFamily
Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.
JackpotJackpot · 2006
Jackpot
6.52006
MovieComedy
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
Time OutTime Out · 2018
Time Out
6.42018
MovieDramaComedy
Story about father and his son and small town bullies and those who stare beside silently approving all bad to happen. Ex-priest moves to small town of Harmaaketo together with his son, where they get instantly bullied and terrorized. Even when there's zero tolerance for such things, no one can or don't want to stop it before it's too late and things escalate to the point of no return.
Have a nice weekendHave a nice weekend · 2009
Have a nice weekend
2009
Movie
Short movie about the importance of well-being at work.
Dream JobDream Job · 2019
Dream Job
5.02019
MovieDrama
An environmental specialist goes to a job interview but the interviewer is more interested in what’s going on with the Muslim minority.
Onni von SopanenOnni von Sopanen · 2006
Onni von Sopanen
9.02006
MovieComedyFamily
11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.
Naked HarbourNaked Harbour · 2012
Naked Harbour
5.82012
MovieDrama
In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt.
Nuoren Wertherin jäljilläNuoren Wertherin jäljillä · 2013
Nuoren Wertherin jäljillä
2013
MovieDrama
Markus Viitanen, a sculptor living in Suomenlinna, has not seen his son Eero for fifteen years. When he learns of Eero's death, he sets out to find out what kind of person Eero grew up to be during his nineteen years of life, and how the nanny Katri relates to the rest of Eero's life.
Diva of FinlandDiva of Finland · 2019
Diva of Finland
6.12019
MovieDramaComedy
Northern small town girl, 18 year-old Henna is literally blinded by envy after stalking Silja, a girl moving from South and who seems to get everything Hanna dreams of. Diva of Finland is a story about rivalry between young women and getting over it.
Unna and NuukUnna and Nuuk · 2006
Unna and Nuuk
6.22006
MovieFantasyFamily
11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.
SiblingsSiblings · 2023
Siblings
3.02023
MovieDrama
Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own lives, surging between one father, two homelands and three adult siblings, from reunification to separation and back again. Over the years, the siblings encounter themselves and each other, their similarities and differences.
StrippingStripping · 2002
Stripping
4.42002
MovieDramaComedy
About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her betrothed Jonah at the dinner table and leaves their shared home in a bang, not knowing why yet.
Jill and JoyJill and Joy · 2014
Jill and Joy
6.12014
MovieFamily
When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It’s a real dream house: measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Based on a beloved children’s book, Jill and Joy is a story of a dream summer without parents or boundaries. Anything can and will happen as reality and fantasy magically intertwine.
Little SisterLittle Sister · 1999
Little Sister
6.01999
MovieDramaRomance
Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
HeartbeatsHeartbeats · 2010
Heartbeats
5.12010
MovieDrama
Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
If You LoveIf You Love · 2010
If You Love
5.42010
MovieDramaRomance
Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed.
Blue CornerBlue Corner · 2002
Blue Corner
6.42002
MovieDramaComedy
Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.

TV Shows

NursesNurses · 2014
Nurses
7.92014
SeriesDrama
Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.
Helsinki CrimesHelsinki Crimes · 2022
Helsinki Crimes
5.52022
SeriesCrimeDrama
Helsinki in the summer is shown differently through the eyes of the homicide unit detectives, Timo Harjunpää and Onerva Nykänen; painting a picture of the city where people are not safe in the streets or not even in their own homes. In the midst of the hard crimes it is impossible not to feel the constant worry about your own family while being afraid of losing touch with your children.
Hotel Swan HelsinkiHotel Swan Helsinki · 2020
Hotel Swan Helsinki
6.02020
SeriesDramaMystery
A hotel manager of the brand-new Hotel Helsinki, is found dead one day before the opening festivities, leaving behind him a suicide note.
Sincerely Yours in Cold BloodSincerely Yours in Cold Blood · 2000
Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
7.22000
SeriesDramaCrime
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.
SecondsSeconds · 2024
Seconds
5.52024
SeriesDrama
A huge train accident in an idyllic small town shocks the whole of Finland, and accident investigator Marita Kaila is faced with the most difficult case of her career. Under increasing pressure, Marita and her team try to find out what led to the death of dozens of people. But there is also a tragedy in Marita's own past, which the demanding investigation brings to the fore. Will he solve the case before the pressure becomes too much?
Dance BrothersDance Brothers · 2023
Dance Brothers
6.32023
SeriesDrama
Two brothers trying to make it as dancers open their own club, but their artistic drive soon clashes with the business, threatening their relationship.
Melkein tottaMelkein totta · 2019
Melkein totta
2019
SeriesDramaComedy
Maailma on valmisMaailma on valmis · 2012
Maailma on valmis
6.72012
SeriesDrama
A Piece of My HeartA Piece of My Heart · 2021
A Piece of My Heart
5.02021
SeriesDramaCrime
A child goes missing in a drama about child welfare workers and the effects of their work on the lives of these workers. Rita returns to her job in child protection after being furloughed during a police investigation. The child is still missing, and Rita is held responsible for the situation. She was replaced as manager by a new director, Jyrki. When she returns to work, Rita is paired with inexperienced Laura. Together, Rita and Laura become an effective team, but the boundaries between their work and private lives begin to blur.
SuojelijatSuojelijat · 2008
Suojelijat
8.02008
SeriesDramaCrime
Rakkaus ja lakiRakkaus ja laki · 2017
Rakkaus ja laki
6.02017
SeriesDrama
Toisen kanssaToisen kanssa · 2014
Toisen kanssa
7.02014
SeriesDrama
Rikospoliisi ei laulaRikospoliisi ei laula · 2006
Rikospoliisi ei laula
6.72006
SeriesDramaCrime
Nerd: DragonSlayer666Nerd: DragonSlayer666 · 2017
Nerd: DragonSlayer666
6.32017
SeriesDramaComedy
Nineteen year old high-schooler has one dream: to become a professional esport player. However, there are many obstacles in the way of his dream, like nagging mother, niggling principal, and getting kicked out of the team.
Laura kesäleirilläLaura kesäleirillä · 2004
Laura kesäleirillä
7.02004
SeriesDrama