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Malin Maria Åkerman ((:ˈmɑːlɪn ˈoːkər.ˈman); born May 12, 1978)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Malin Akerman: Biography )〕 is a Swedish Canadian actress, model and singer. She is best known as an actress, first making appearances in several Canadian productions. In the early 2000s, she had many television and film parts, including ''The Utopian Society'' (2003) and ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' (2004). Following a supporting role on the comedy series ''The Comeback'' (2005), Åkerman gained her first starring roles in the feature films ''The Heartbreak Kid'' (2007) and ''27 Dresses'' (2008). Åkerman was cast as Silk Spectre II in the 2009 superhero film ''Watchmen'', a role for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she had supporting and starring roles in both ''The Proposal'' and ''Couples Retreat'', two commercial hits that garnered mixed to negative reviews. In 2010, she became part of the main cast on the comedy series ''Childrens Hospital''. She starred in four feature films in 2012, including the comedy ''Wanderlust'' and the musical film ''Rock of Ages''. In 2012, she had a recurring role on the sitcom ''Suburgatory'' and starred in the short-lived ABC comedy series ''Trophy Wife'' from 2013 to 2014. Apart from acting and occasional modelling, Åkerman has had a brief music career as the lead vocalist for alternative rock band The Petalstones, but eventually left to focus on her acting career. She was married to the band's drummer Roberto Zincone from 2007 until 2013. ==Early life== Åkerman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to aerobics teacher and part-time model Pia (née Sundström) and insurance broker Magnus Åkerman.〔 She has one sister, singer Jennifer Åkerman. When she was two years old, the family moved to Canada after her father was offered a job there.〔 Four years later, her parents divorced, and her father moved back to Sweden.〔 Both of her parents remarried, giving Åkerman one half-brother and two half-sisters.〔 After her mother remarried, they moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Later in her teenage years, her mother divorced again.〔 Åkerman attended many different schools,〔 including Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ontario.〔 She once attended a Catholic school, though she was raised as a Buddhist. She has recalled some portions of her childhood as "painful", explaining that "I loved my father very much and I only got to see him during the school holidays. But I think it was an advantage that they split up when I was very young, so I could get used to it." She visited her father in Falsterbo, Sweden during school breaks and talked to him regularly over the phone.〔 She cites her parents as "supportive, positive influences" in her life.〔 As a child, Åkerman had no plans to become an actress.〔 Her mother introduced her to modelling while she was still in primary school, and she later landed several advertising campaign deals, but she decided to quit at age twelve.〔 Four years later she returned to modelling after being discovered by Ford Models in a shopping mall in St. Catharines.〔〔 She was signed to the agency and later won a contract with skincare company Noxzema. She soon moved to Toronto while attending North Toronto Collegiate Institute and later on in her OAC year, Dante Alighieri Academy.〔 At the age of eighteen, inspired by the "helplessness" she sometimes felt during her childhood,〔 she decided to become a child psychologist.〔 She supported her education by modelling for television commercials and catalogue layouts.〔 While studying for a year at York University in Toronto, she was simultaneously offered guest roles on television as a result of her exposure in commercials.〔 She saw the acting gigs as further opportunities to pay for her education, but found herself enjoying it and decided to drop out of school to become an actress.〔 She moved to Los Angeles, California in 2001 to pursue her acting career full-time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malin Åkerman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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