Anna Easteden enjoys a career rich in
experience and wide in range as an international model, TV, stage and
screen actress, and humanitarian activist.
Easteden is known for her performance
as Bee Sting on �Who Wants to Be a Superhero?� as well as notable
co-starring roles on �Bones,� �Days Of Our Lives� and �Passions.�
She also played Nicole Brown Simpson in a Japanese TV movie and took
on a lead role in the short film "Harmless,�
winner of 2 prestigious film festival awards.
Personally recruited by
multi-award winning director Mika Kaurismaki (who�s directed the
likes of Johnny Depp, Julie Delpy and Henry Thomas), Easteden is
slated to star in his upcoming feature film �The House of Branching
Love� (�Haarautuvan Rakkauden Talo�) set for release in her
native Finland in Fall 2009. Easteden will also work alongside
Oscar� nominee Rinko Kikuchi (�Babel�) in the Japanese remake of the
Oscar�-winning American phenomenon "Sideways" � currently in post-production
for a 2009 release.
Easteden was born in Finland and raised
on her parents� dairy farm. At the early age of twelve, Anna's
career took its first major stride when she won a national modeling
contest and appeared on her first Finnish magazine cover. Shortly
thereafter, Anna received an international modeling contract with a
major Japanese modeling agency and promptly relocated to Tokyo where
she appeared in advertising campaigns for such mammoth international
corporations as Sony, Phillips, Oricom and Wacoal � to name a
few.
Easteden�s modeling
career next swept her off to such global destinations as Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand,
Slovakia, Guam and finally the United States. Once on US soil,
Easteden quickly landed a series of major modeling gigs with Calvin
Klein, Herm�s, Salvatore Ferragamo, Diesel, T-Mobile, Avon, Jockey,
Chevy and Nissan � and has been featured in such
magazines as
Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar
and Marie Claire. Easteden�s
interests also include those in the humanitarian arena. Not
something one might expect from a fashion model, Easteden conducted
a comparative legal research study on the different aspects of
asylum procedures in selected European countries for United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her
research impacted the Slovak National Asylum Legislation, which was
in the process of amendment. Anna then continued her work in
Bratislava, with an international partner of The Foundation for a
Civil Society (USA), where she involved herself in the "Citizen
Campaign OK '98" for free and fair elections.
Easteden currently resides in Los
Angeles with her husband. In addition to her modeling and acting,
Easteden enjoys traveling, cooking, writing, and lending a
humanitarian hand to a number of her favorite non-profit
organizations.