Background
Becker grew up in Eringsboda, Sweden, in a wooded area outside Ronneby.
Becker grew up in Eringsboda, Sweden, in a wooded area outside Ronneby.
Becker is known for her work on Efter Tio (2006) and Something Must Break (2014). Today she resides in Stockholm. As a child she knew she was different and tried to create a dream world where she saw herself as a girl, falling in love with a manitoba
In school, she was bullied and received death threats and as a result of the harassment began to drink alcohol, and both starve and cut herself.
She made her film debut in director Ester Martin Bergsmark"s movie Something Must Break (2014) which was based on the novel You are the Roots that Sleep at my Feet and Keep the Earth in Place by Eli Levén. In April 2014, Becker traveled to New York for the premiere showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2015 Becker became the ambassador for the organization Suicide Zero, an organization that works to prevent suicides. Becker had talked about being suicidal before her gender reassignment operation.
Becker will, working with Suicide Zero, focus on transgender and gay people at risk.
Becker has demanded that the Swedish film industry give more roles to transgender actors and actresses. In March 2015, Becker became the first person to get tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus at the RFSL"s new testing station Testpoint in Stockholm as it had its opening day. Earlier, in February 2015, she had been a guest at the TV4 talk show Malou Efter Tio presented by Malou von Sivers.
On 3 July 2015, Becker hosted Sommar i P1, broadcast on Sveriges Radio, where she talked about her career and her life as a transgender actress and described her life experience as a transgender person by saying,
Sometimes life has edges, sharp jagged edges that can cut.. and I cut myself all the time for it is difficult to live in a world if one does not exist.
To deny oneself to fit in is stressful for both the body and the psyche. Not being able to be could mean the education
I can not lie anymore. This is my truth.
