Salla Hakanpää is a soulful and imaginative actor with a broad and rather unusual skill set:
Before taking on acting Salla gained reputation as a groundbreaking contemporary circus artist combining aerial acrobatics to underwater movement, both live and in audiovisual artworks, leading her also to underwater stunts in film&tv productions on an international scale.

Salla’s acting has been described as gritty yet sensitive, and captivating.