{"id":486,"date":"2025-03-14T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.xf.fi\/esiintyjat\/matti-laine\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:28:18","slug":"matti-laine","status":"publish","type":"esiintyjat","link":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/esiintyjat\/matti-laine\/","title":{"rendered":"Matti Laine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helsinki-born Matti Laine (born 1976) is a screenwriter, actor and author whose Kovaset action thriller series, set in the cruel world of online targeting, corruption and international crime. The first instalment in the series, <em>Is\u00e4ns\u00e4 tyt\u00e4r<\/em>, was published in spring 2025, and the second instalment, <em>Verilinja<\/em>, will appropriately appear just before Helsinki Noir in February 2026. In his screenwriting capacity, Laine is known for his TV series Paratiisi, which won a Finnish Golden Venla award, and the new <em>Hildur<\/em> TV series adaptation. Laine has also written a musical about the Finnish pop star Kirka and acted in several TV programmes, films and theatrical productions over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the author\u2019s books in the Kirja.fi online shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Ville Juurikkala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki-born Matti Laine (b. 1976) is a screenwriter, actor and author who has written, among other things, the six-part Vitikka detective series.<br \/>Is\u00e4ns\u00e4 tyt\u00e4r daughter begins an action thriller series set in the cruel world of corruption, corruption and crime, in which Laine, known as a master of interesting characters, is once again in his element. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":371,"template":"","class_list":["post-486","esiintyjat","type-esiintyjat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/esiintyjat\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/esiintyjat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/esiintyjat"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkinoir.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}