Helena Mattsson

Helena Mattsson is a Swedish actress. She portrayed the role of Irina Korsakov in season 6 of Desperate Housewives.

Career
Mattsson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, had roles early on in Wild Side Story and other cabarets there, and moved at a young age to London, England, to attend theatre school.

When she was 19 years old she moved to Hollywood where she has since stayed. In 2007 she starred in Species: The Awakening, and has been cast in the film You and I. Mattsson also appeared in the music video of Primal Scream's "Country Girl" in 2006. She appeared in the Touchstone Pictures film Surrogates and also in four episodes of the ABC series Desperate Housewives as Irina.

Films

 * Americanizing Shelley (2007)
 * Species: The Awakening (2007)
 * You and I (2009)
 * Nobody (2009)
 * Surrogates (2009)
 * Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010)
 * Audrey (2010)
 * Melvin Smarty (2011)
 * Guns, Girls and Gambling (2011)

Television

 * Sex, Love & Secrets (2005)
 * CSI: NY (2005)
 * American Men (2006)
 * Kitchen Confidential (2006)
 * CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007)
 * Cold Case (2007)
 * Rx (2007)
 * CSI: Miami (2007)
 * Two and a Half Men (2008)
 * Rules of Engagement (2009)
 * Legend of the Seeker (2009)
 * Desperate Housewives (2010)
 * NCIS Los Angeles (2010)
 * The Mentalist (2010)
 * Breakout Kings (2011)
 * Untitled Burr and Hart Project (2011)
 * Detroit 1-8-7 (2011)
 * Nikita (2011)
 * Fargo (2014)