Manuela Bosco

• Name — Manuela Bosco • Full Name — Manuela Anna Maria Bosco • Nationality — Finnish • Sport — Athletics • Event — Hurdling • Club — Mikkelin Kilpa • Born — 11 June 1982 • Birthplace — Mikkeli Rural Municipality, Finland • Weight — 58 kg • Personal Best — *100 m hs: 13.29 (2000) • Country — Finland

Manuela Bosco, despite having dual citizenship (Italian and Finnish), chose to compete for Finland, She is the niece of the Finnish cross-country skier Harri Kirvesniemi. In 2012, she debuted as an actress in the Finnish short movie Hankikanto, and in 2013, in the TV series Nymphs. Bosco has two children with actor Kasimir Baltzar. She married musician Tuure Kilpeläinen in June 2018. They have a daughter born in February 2019.

• Representing Finland • 1998 — World Junior Championships — Annecy, France — 5th — 100m hurdles — 13.83 (wind: -1.0 m/s) • 4th (h) — 4 × 100 m relay — 45.36 • 2000 — World Junior Championships — Santiago, Chile — 14th (sf) — 100m hurdles — 13.69 (wind: -0.9 m/s) • Olympics — Sydney — 30th (h) — 100 metres hurdles — 13.51 • 2003 — European U23 Championships — Bydgoszcz, Poland — 9th (h) — 400m hurdles — 58.18

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2012–present — Nymphs — Nadia Rapaccini — 12 episodes • 2018-2021 — Deadwind — Filippa

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2019 — This Love — Unnamed character — Song by Bobby Oroza