Lene Cecilia Sparrok
Lene Cecilia Sparrok is a Norwegian Southern Sámi actress and reindeer herder. She played the main character, Elle-Marja, in the Sami 2016 film Sami Blood, for which she won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Sporrok was born on 6 October 1997 in Namsskogan Municipality, Norway. She grew up in a family connected to Southern Sámi culture and learned reindeer herding at a young age. She went to a boarding school in Hattfjelldal for a few years before moving to a school in Snåsa.
She speaks Southern Sámi, Norwegian and Swedish.
Filmography
- 2016 - ''Sami Blood''
Theatre
- 2020 - Ædnan, a National Swedish Touring Theatre production of the epic with the same name.
- 2024 - Hearrát dat bidje min/Herrarna satte oss hit. An Uppsala stadsteater production based on Elin Anna Labba's book with the same title.