Noomi Rapace will play Mother Teresa in a new biopic about the legendary Catholic saint, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska.
The Swedish actress, 44, will star in Mother, which will focus on seven crucial days in the life of Mother Teresa.
The film revolves around the saint’s decision to leave the Loreto Entally Monastery in Calcutta, India, and launch her own order. The Hollywood Reporter.
Mother will be Teona’s English-language debut and the director feels that she can identify with the Catholic saint, who died in September 1997 at the age of 87.
Teona, who directed the 2019 film God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, revealed: “I definitely related to her as a woman and I saw a lot of myself in her.”
Noomi Rapace to play Mother Teresa in a new biopic about the legendary Catholic saint, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska (Noomi pictured this month)
The film centers on the saint’s decision to leave the Loreto Entally Monastery in Kolkata, India, and launch her own order (Mother Teresa pictured with a child in India in 1979).
Noomi rose to fame in 2009 playing computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
She also rose to fame playing Madam Simza Heron in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in 2011.
The actress recently starred as an astronaut in the space-based Apple TV+ series Constellation.
The eight-part psychological thriller, created and written by Peter Harness, follows astronaut Jo, who returns to Earth after a disaster in space, only to discover that important pieces of her life are missing.
The action-packed series explores the dark edges of human psychology and follows one woman’s quest to uncover the truth about the hidden history of space travel in an effort to regain everything she has lost.
Although she has had significant success in the film world, the actress still struggles to balance her acting career with her personal life.
Naomi, who has a 21-year-old son named Lev, recently shared this The guard: ‘It is a constant struggle and an internal conflict.
‘My son is everything to me, but I couldn’t just be at home and be a mother, that would drive me crazy. I’m not that.
Naomi has been identified as the perfect candidate for the role of Mother Teresa (pictured in 1968)
Noomi rose to fame with her breakthrough role in 2009’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, in which she played computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
The actress recently played the role of an astronaut in the space-based Apple TV+ series Constellation (pictured)
‘And I want to lead by example: to be someone who fights for my dream, who stands up for my beliefs and who says that anything is possible.
‘I come from a poor farm, I have no education, no one has opened doors for me, I don’t come from money. So I’ve just worked my way through life and my son has been my partner in crime.
“We’ve gone through all the different chapters side by side, but I’ve been away and it’s painful.”
The actress recently revealed that she didn’t learn to read or write until the age of 12 because she was “self-taught and self-raised.”
Speak with The times About her unconventional upbringing, Naomi recalled how she was raised by her mother and stepfather in Sweden and Iceland after her father left the family while she was being born.
She explained: ‘There were really no boundaries. I’m self-taught and self-raised, and I couldn’t read and write properly until I was 12 or 13.
‘We had no books or TV; I was playing, building and riding.”
Comparing herself to the wild protagonist of The Jungle Book series, Noomi continued, “Sometimes I felt like Mowgli, this child who grew up in the wilderness.”
Mother will focus on seven crucial days in the life of Mother Teresa (pictured during Alexander McQueen’s show in March)
At the age of 18, Mother Teresa went to Dublin to join the order of the Catholic Sisters of Loreto, and a year later moved to Calcutta, now Kolkata, to become a teacher.
Now, in possibly her biggest career move yet, Naomi will transform into the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, now North Macedonia, in 1910, Mother Teresa’s father died when she was eight, plunging the family into poverty. She found solace in church and decided to become a nun at the age of twelve.
At the age of 18, she went to Dublin to join the order of the Catholic Sisters of Loreto, and a year later moved to Calcutta, now Calcutta, to become a teacher.
Witnessing the misery and death caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 – when dozens of dead bodies were left on the streets – had a profound impact on her, and three years later she claimed that Jesus spoke to her on the train and her new gave instructions. .
“I had to leave the monastery and help the poor,” she later wrote. ‘It was an order. To fail would be to break faith.”
The church gave her permission to found her own order, the Missionaries of Charity, and she chose a new habit; a simple white cotton sari with a blue border.
News began to spread and in 1969 a BBC documentary team began an investigation.
She became an overnight celebrity and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite declining health, including arthritis, poor eyesight and heart problems, she continued to work and in 1982 she demanded a ceasefire to save some orphans, which amazingly happened.
On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa died of a heart attack at her order’s headquarters in Calcutta and a host of dignitaries from around the world attended her funeral.
In 2022, a three-part Sky documentary series called Mother Teresa: For The Love Of God was released, speaking to some of her closest friends and bitterest critics.