Mina Sundwallis only in the early stages of her career in movies and on television, but she’s already accumulated a significant number of memorable and impressive performances. Born on June 06, 2025, Mina Sundwall got her career started early, appearing in an episode ofCelebrity Ghost Storiesat the age of 11. This was followed by a two-year gap before she earned two more roles, inA Good MarriageandLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit. Since then, Sundwall has regularly worked in film and TV, even starring in some of her projects.
Sundwall has had what is, in comparison to otheractors who debuted in the 2010s, an unusually classical path to success. With streaming services offering new movies and TV shows at an almost unsustainable rate, young actors have found themselves thrust into the spotlight after only one or two performances. Sundwall is a little different. She got her start very young, appearing in small parts in network shows. Over the years, she’s got herself involved in bigger and bigger parts. It feels like a slow-moving, butpowerful start to her career and bodes well for the future.
A Good Marriage
Cast
A Good Marriage is a psychological thriller based on a story by Stephen King. Directed by Peter Askin, the film stars Joan Allen as Darcy Anderson, a woman who discovers a dark secret about her husband, portrayed by Anthony LaPaglia. As Darcy grapples with this revelation, she must decide how far she will go to maintain her seemingly perfect life.
A Stephen King adaptationbased on his novella of the same name that appeared in the 2010 collection,Full Dark, No Stars,A Good Marriage, is a psychological thriller that follows a couple, Darcy (Joan Allen) and Bob Anderson (Anthony LaPaglia). After many years of marital bliss, Darcy uncovers a horrifying secret about her husband and she must decide what to do with the man who she thought was a completely different person.
Full Dark, No Starsalso includes the novella1922, which was turned into a Netflix film starring Thomas Jane and Molly Parker.
Mina Sundwall has an uncredited role as a Young Petra, a character played by Kristen Connolly in the present. Sundwall only briefly appears in the movie in a flashback but in that small amount of screen time, she effectively makes it clear who she is supposed to be the younger version of. That’s not an easy task for any actor, much less one who has only recently entered her teens.
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Celebrity Ghost Stories: This reality series features celebrities recounting personal paranormal experiences, exploring the mysterious encounters and haunting events that have had a profound impact on their lives. The show offers a glimpse into the otherworldly narratives shared by well-known figures from various entertainment fields.
Celebrity Ghost Storiesis one of the manycelebrity-fueled paranormal reality showsthat people just can’t seem to get enough of. A&E’sCelebrity Ghost Storiesstands above others in the genre as the original version of these shows. Over its six seasons, various celebrities would come on to talk about paranormal events in their lives, which would then be depicted in a reenactment.
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Mina Sundwall appeared in Season 4, episode 13, which features Victoria Rowell, Dot Jones, Carlos Mencia, and Linda Blair. Sundwall plays a young girl named Kathy in the reenactment segment. As a reenactor, Sundwall barely has any lines, but she has an effective screen presence that makes the ghost story that much more fun and creeping. It’s by no means a major role, and her screen time is short, butit proves how comfortable she was in front of a camera even from an early age.
Law and Order: SVU
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is a procedural crime drama series created by Dick Wolf that follows cases handled by a fictional New York Police Department’s 16th precinct that centers around sexually-based crimes. The Show follows a rotating group of detectives that will tackle some of the most heinous crimes while trying to help the victims - and themselves - adjust to the new normal as the darkness in the world reveals itself with each new case.
Plenty of notable actors have appeared onLaw & Order: SVUin guest capacitieseither at the beginning of their careers or in the middle of it for a real surprise. Mina Sundwall takes her turn on the long-running series in season 16, episode 6, “Glasgowman’s Wrath”. The episode is loosely based on the “Slender Man stabbing” from May 2014, which was allegedly inspired by the video game character of the same name.
Sundwall plays Mia Harris, a young girl who goes with her younger sister, Zoe (Oona Laurence), and their friend, Peery (Chloe Csengery) to the park at night to investigate the mystery of the “Glasgowman”. When Zoe turns up the next morning with stabbing injuries, theLaw & Ordercrew begins investigating. This is Sundwall’s first major role and, for the front half of the episode, she acts as the group’s leader, playing the annoying big sister, and the brave older girl very well.
Freeheldis a 2015 drama film based on the 2007 documentary short film of the same name. The story follows a police officer, Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), who fights against Ocean County, New Jersey’s Board of Chosen Freeholders to ensure her pension and benefits go to her partner, Stacie Andree (Elliot Page), after she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. Eventually successful,Stacie and Laurel fight through red tape and prejudice about their lifestyle to get what they deserve.
TheFreehelddocumentary won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 80th Academy Awards.
Mina Sundwall plays Maya Kelder, the daughter of Bryan Kelder (Josh Charles), a member of the Ocean County board. It’s not a very big part in the film, with few speaking lines, but it once again shows Sundwall’s knack for choosing interesting projects to work on. This is a small film, about a very niche topic, but Sundwall has the right, natural attitude to work within the story and bring a documentary to life.
6Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Justine
InMaggie’s Plan, based on the original story, later novel,The End of Menby Karen Rinaldi, Maggie Hardin (Greta Gerwig) is a single teacher in New York City who decides she wants to have a child. She enlists the help of a student as a sperm donor but ends up getting impregnated by a married man, John (Ethan Hawke), who she later marries. Motherhood and marriage prove to be a struggle for Maggie, who ends up trying to get John back together with the woman he was originally married to.
Sundwall is acting alongside some industry heavyweights, and it never feels like she’s in over her head, confidently sparring with Hawke and Gerwig alike.
Mina Sundwall appears in the film as Justine Harding, one of John’s children from his previous marriage. Justine, like her brother Paul (Jackson Frazer) is not all that excited about Maggie breaking up their family, but the blended family grows closer as the film goes on. Sundwall is acting alongside some industry heavyweights, and it never feels like she’s in over her head, confidently sparring with Hawke and Gerwig alike.
#Horror
#Horror is a 2015 horror film inspired by actual events, where a group of 12-year-old girls encounter terror when their addiction to a social media game spirals into a cyberbullying episode, leading to a night of chaos and fear.
#Horror, as its name would suggest, combines horror and modern internet culture for a Gen Z thriller. The film follows a group of wealthy 7th-grade girls who play a social media game that gets out of control, resulting in a night of terror and mayhem. Bullying and the dangers of online overexposure are at the core of#Horrorand each of the girls suffers in their own way from how social media has attached itself to them so completely.
Mina Sundwall plays Francesca, one of the girls in the group who also comes over for the sleepover where the murders happen. Francesca is the type of person unwilling to explore their own personality and is instead happy to taunt from the sidelines, just happy that they’re not the one being bullied. It’s a funny and charmless role for Sundwall, but she is excruciatingly good as a young girl hiding her true self just to fit in better with others, ultimately leading to her downfall.
Jesus Revolution
Jesus Revolution is a movie that takes place in the 1970s and follows Greg Laurie and a group of young people as they come to Southern California. Laurie meets Lonnie Frisbee, a hippie-street preacher, in this move, and together they open a church. The church becomes the center of a counterculture movement that is said to lead to the greatest spiritual awakening in American History. you may rent Jesus Revolution for just $3 for Prime Day.
Jesus Revolutionis based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Greg Laurie. It follows the teenage Greg (Joel Courtney), a Christian hippie named Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), and a pastor named Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer) who go to California in the late 1960s to participate in the Jesus movement. The movement was an evangelical Christian movement that saw a mainstream spread of Christian culture and practices, which began on the West Coast of the United States.
Mina Sundwall has a smaller part in the film as Dodie, Cathe’s (Anna Grace Barlow) sister. Cathe falls in love with Greg, and introduces him to drugs as a way to connect him to himself and God. Dodie’s major scene comes when she gets sick after overdosing at a Janis Joplin concert. While it’s a small part for Sundwall,her ability to bring life to the smallest characters is never more apparent than inJesus Revolution. She doesn’t overact the overdose, making the sequence grim, but never harrowing, perfectly finding the correct tone.
Legends of Tomorrow
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is one of many CW superhero shows that takes place within the Arrowverse. The series follows a rag-tag group of heroes and villains traveling through space and time to prevent apocalyptic events that would destroy the Earth and time itself.Legends of Tomorrowran between 2016 and 2022 for seven seasons. New heroes and villains filtered in and out of the series, butArrowstar Caity Lotz starred in all 110 episodes as Sara Lance, aka White Canary.
InLegends of Tomorrow, a spin-off ofArrowandThe Flash, a time-traveling, roguish adventurer, Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) assembles a ragtag team of heroes and villains to prevent an apocalypse that threatens to destroy the world, as well as the understanding of time itself. Mina Sundwall appeared in eight episodes between seasons 5 and 6. She plays Lita, Mick (Dominic Purcell) and Ali’s (Lisa Marie DiGiacinto) daughter, who they did not know existed.
Angered at being abandoned by her parents when she was little, Mick and Lita’s reunion is a chilly one. Ava (Jes Macallan) attempts to bond the pair by taking them to important moments in both their lives. Though that fails to make things better, eventually, the two come to an understanding. Sundwall fits in well among the super-powered characters inLegends of Tomorrowandher hurt and anger feel real and powerful. She’s not whiny or unpleasant, just unwilling to let her father off the hook for his past failures.
Lost In Space
Premiering on Netflix in 2018, Lost in Space is a reboot of the 1965 TV series, and stars Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, and Parker Posey, with a further ensemble cast. The series focuses on the Robinson family, who crash-land on a strange but habitable alien planet after their colonizing mission to the Alpha Centauri system goes awry. While the story differs quite a bit, the series does make multiple references and homages to the original Lost in Space from 1965.
Lost in Spaceis a reimaginingof the 1965 series of the same name, itself a version of the 1812 novel,The Swiss Family Robinson. In the series, set in 2046, the Robinson family is selected for a mission to colonize a distant planetary system after an event threatens to extinguish life on Earth. The family ends up crash landing on another habitable planet on the way and mother Maureen (Molly Parker), father John (Toby Stephens), son Will (Maxwell Jenkins), eldest daughter Judy (Taylor Russell), and youngest daughter Penny (Mina Sundwall) must find a way to survive.
This is Sundwall’s breakout role. As Penny,Sundwall is adventurous and rebellious, keen to sneak out of her family’s shelter to explore the planet despite their protests. It’s an understated series that is a joy to watch because of how self-contained and simple the seemingly complex story is. Sundwall in particular is excellent. The energy she brings to the character and series helps to brighten some of the episodes that drag.
1The Graduates (2023)
Genevieve
Mina Sundwall’s first starring film role comes in the 2023 drama,The Graduatesfrom director Hannah Peterson. Sundwall stars as Genevieve, a young woman who is preparing to graduate from high school. The previous year, her long-time boyfriend was killed in an act of gun violence and, despite having to move on, the horror and tragedy of the event have continued to stick with her. It’s a delicate film, with three characters sharing the duty of a lead, but Sundwall has the lion’s share of the acting.
Sundwall plays her part with a tightly wound grief that she is desperately trying to keep inside herself, to Genevieve’s own detriment. There are moments of inspiration in the film as well, and watching Genevieve slowly unravel the pain inside her is a moving testament to the human spirit. Though the film dips into sentimentality,Mina Sundwallnever does, treating her character like a real person, confused, unsure, but willing to go forward.
