Eppu Nuotio (born Eija-Riitta Silvennoinen, 13 February 1962 in
Iisalmi, Finland) is a Finnish actress, author, screenwriter,
playwright and columnist.After having graduated from the Iisalmi Lukio
(High School), Nuotio studied dance and mime in France and
screenwriting in New York City. She has appeared on several Finnish
television series as well as at theaters. Her television appearances
include the drama series Tuliportaat ("Stairs of Fire"), Sisaret ("The
Siblings") and the character comic series Kesäkerttu ("The Summer
Kerttu"), which caused some controversy in Finland in the late 1990s.
Sisaret was co-written by Eppu Nuotio and Sirpa Hyttinen. Nuotio has
also made translations of stageplays originally published in English
or Swedish. Furthermore, she has created lyrics for songs.Nuotio has
published more than twenty children's books since 1994. In 1999 she
published an adult book Pariasiaa ("Concerning Couples") under the
alias Kerttu Ström. As the alias implies, the book was inspired by
her Kesäkerttu character. During 2003â€"2005 Nuotio published an epic
novel trilogy about a girl who was born on the day Marilyn Monroe
died. The trilogy chronologically tells about the girl's childhood and
teen years in the small Eastern Finnish town of Varkaus and finally
about her troubled life in Helsinki in her forties. During 2006â€"2008
Nuotio created a crime fiction novel trilogy about a young Finnish
female journalist called Pii Marin who has to cope with racial slurs
while working as the first TV-news anchor of black African origin in
Finland. Pii Marin eventually gets her fill and quits the job. She
then moves to a small town where she involuntarily gets herself
involved in the most horrible crimes. Matila & Röhr Productions is
planning to make a feature film based on the first novel of the Pii
Marin trilogy (Musta, "The Black One").In 2002 Eppu Nuotio became a
Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She has expressed her concern about
sufficiency of potable water in developing countries. In 2008 she made
her first trip to Africa to visit people in need. Eppu Nuotio Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter