Helena Kara

Like Lea Joutseno and Regina Linnanheimo, she was one of the few Finnish film actors without a theatrical background.

While working as a ticket vendor in a Turku cinema in 1937, she met the head of Suomi-Filmi production company, Risto Orko, who invited her for a screen test.

She soon appeared in her first film, Miehen kylkiluu (1937), directed by Orvo Saarikivi.

After getting married, Kara only appeared three times in films that were not directed by her husband.

In their retirement years, Kara and her husband lived winters in the Algarve of Portugal and summers in Klaukkala near the Lake Valkjärvi.