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Beata Harju is a Finnish-born and New York -raised screenwriter, actor, voice actor, filmmaker and documentary producer.
Beata’s first stage role was playing Casper in her middle school production of Thorbjørn Egner’s When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town in Helsinki, Finland. She made her national theatre debut as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (dir. Piotrek Cholozdinski), followed by Jane in August: Osage County (dir. Joakim Groth) at Svenska Teatern, the National Swedish Theatre of Finland. Beata has also portrayed Lulu in Cabaret, and performed in Hip H’Opera, the Finnish National Opera’s hiphop remake of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte.
Some of Beata’s acting work on film work include playing a Reporter in Free Skate, dir. Roope Olenius, taking on the office newcomer, Cathy, in Nicole Franklin’s debut feature Title VII, and a supporting role in the Investigation Discovery’s episodic Betrayed (dir. Yoram Astrakhan). Beata gave her voice to the Mymble in the Finnish and Swedish versions of the animation film Moomins on the Riviera, based on Tove Jansson’s famous comic books from the 1950’s. She has also starred in a Duran Duran’s music video Safe (In the heat of the moment).
Her filmmaking work include co-writing the animation feature Moomins on the Riviera, producing, co-writing and acting in the award-winning comedy short Catcalling Virgin, and writing the Enter the Wood Man -episode for Cartoon Network’s Mega Man: Fully Charged -series, and Wild Things for The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti for Gigglebug/Zodiak Kids and Disney EMEA+. Her 360 VR short film, Alone at Night, in which Beata also plays the lead role, has been touring film festivals in 2026 and recently won Best VR at Sunrise Film Festival in the UK, and is competing for the VR awards in the official selection of Aesthetica Film Festival in November. Beata and her producing partner Hanna Hemilä also have several fiction and documentary projects in various stages of production.
Beata is a screenwriting graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles. Her undergraduate degree is in theatre, directing and history from Sarah Lawrence College, and she has spent years finessing singing, improv comedy and dance in addition to storytelling.
For more of Beata’s Handle Productions projects, head over to the Handle Productions website.
