Malin Lagerlöf (born 1968), also credited as Malin Lagerlöf-Holst, is a Swedish screenwriter and playwright. She had a number of collaborations with director husband Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, until his disappearance in 2011. She was nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay for Breaking Out (1999).
Life and career She was born in 1968 in Lidingö. She is the youngest of five born to a civil engineer father and a homemaker mother. She wrote Baby Jane, which premiered at Stockholm City Theater in 1993. Another of her plays, I badhuset, was shown at the following year. Lagerlöf wrote , a play about Swedish Maritime Administration whistleblower and scapegoat . It premiered in 1995 at Gothenburg City Theater, with direction by .
For Breaking Out (1999), she was nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay. She was the screenwriter for Miffo (2003), directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf. The film received a positive review from Gunnar Rehlin in Variety. She collaborated again with Lind Lagerlöf again on Road to Italy (2005). The film received a positive review from Gunnar Rehlin in Variety. and gave it mixed reviews in Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet, respectively.
Her husband disappeared on 6 October 2011 while scouting filming locations at the Tjurpannan Nature Reserve outside Tanumshede in Bohuslän. They had three children together. She later wrote a book about the experience of his disappearance, Dagbok från ditt försvinnande (2016). Alongside Mats Strandberg, she wrote the 2025 series Blood Cruise.
Writing credits
Screenwriting YearTitleNotes1999Breaking Out2001Making Babies2003Miffo2005Road to Italy2017TV series2024
Playwriting YearTitleNotes1993Baby Jane1994I badhusetElva nätter före jul19952001Olof Palmes leende2012Fursten
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