Rapace's sister, Særún Norén, is a photographer.Rapace has said she saw her father only occasionally before his death. At the age of five, she moved from her native Sweden to Flúðir, Iceland with her mother and stepfather. Two years later, she made her film debut in a minor role inIn the Shadow of the Raven.

She left home at age 15 and enrolled in a Stockholm theatre school.

Rapace at the 2007 San Sebastián International Film Festival .

. From 1998 to 1999, Rapace studied at Skara Skolscen. She has been engaged at Theater Plaza 2000–01, Orionteatern 2001, Teater Galeasen 2002, Stockholms stadsteater in 2003 as well as at the Royal Dramatic Theatre . In 2007, she won acclaim for her award-winning portrayal of a troubled teen mother in the Danish filmDaisy Diamond, directed by Simon Staho . She won the two top film awards in Denmark (the Bodil and Robert prize) for Best Actress for her role in the film, which was also selected for the main competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival . The film was criticized for the abuse a baby actor was subjected to during production.

andThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest(all three were originally screened as two-part telemovies, then re-edited for theatrical release). On September 11, 2010,Entertainment Weeklyreported that Rapace had been cast in Guy Richie 'sSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, her first English-speaking role, as a French Gypsy ; the film was released in 2011.Her breakthrough in America is considered to be Ridley Scott 's project calledPrometheuswhere she played the leading role, a scientist named Elizabeth Shaw. She had met Scott for the first time following the release of the Millennium trilogy movies, at which point he expressed a willingness to work with her and encouraged her to improve her accent.Prometheus was released in June 2012.She will star alongside Rachel McAdams in Brian De Palma 's erotic thrillerPassion, which is the English-language remake of 2010's French psychological thrillerLove Crime. They both appeared inSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadowsbut did not share scenes together.

In November 2012 she appeared as the lead role in a Rolling Stones video for the single " Doom and Gloom " shot in the studios of the Cité du Cinéma by Luc Besson in Saint-Denis .

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