Eve Metsäranta

Eve Metsäranta is a Finnish film and stage actress, singer and a professional dancer. She studied in the prestigious musical theatre program of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and Los Angeles. She's a diverse character actress with a wide range in both comedy and drama. In her own words, she's most drawn into characters that are misfits or often misunderstood. People that also draw her in usually have an exceptional way of thinking, whether they are murderers, psychopaths, narcissists or just your everyday-looking women. She often and usually plays strong independent women, but she's very keen on experiencing the human life in its all forms, so she doesn't want to limit herself to play only certain types of characters. She's always open to new perspectives, experiments and suggestions.Her most notable theatre credits include "The Bodyguard" in Finland, where she was cast in the first Finnish stage adaptation of the musical based on the music of Whitney Houston and the famous movie of the same title, leading roles in Los Angeles in "Wonder Women" and "The Dark Side of the Moon", a stage adaptation of the famous Pink Floyd Album praised and seen by the band members themselves. On film her favorite leading roles include Ruby, an assassin who has to confront her long-gone brother in "The Forgiveness", preacher woman filled with hate towards homosexuals in "Well Wishes" and Fallen Angel, a soul balancing between darkness and light, the wrong and right decisions that will define her destiny in "Russian Roulette" completely created by herself.Ms. Metsäranta resides in Los Angeles, where besides acting on film and stage, she holds a contract with Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers professional dance company with various performances around the US. She was the only international artist who was offered a performing company member contract for the season 2017-2018. Ms. Metsäranta has trained dancing for most of her life in various different dance studios in Los Angeles, New York, Copenhagen, Denmark and in Tampere, Finland, where she was born and raised.For a person of a young age she has a colorful background and she says her life has been shaped by everything she's had passion for. Besides being a performer from a very young age, she's also managed to complete her Master's degree in Financial Managent and Public Sector Accounting in Finland and afterwards she started her PhD studies in Accounting in a Finnish university also teaching in the same field before she finally decided to dedicate her life to a serious international acting career. Ms. Metsäranta is dedicated on creating a long-term career as a highly skilled and diverse actress and a performer and believes to achieve it by hard work and passionate dedication. Besides acting, she loves to bring her visions to life on film as a director and writer as well and through her acting work pursues to give a voice to the people who never thought they were good enough or qualified enough to live the life they were meant to live. A stigma so familiar especially to the Finnish people. Show less «