Noomi Rapace Reveals She Taught Herself to Read and Write at Age 12, 'Was Self-Raised Like Mowgli'

It's even more impressive to consider that actress Noomi Rapace is fluent in multiple languages -- including Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and England -- when you consider that she taught herself. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star opened up about her childhood on a remote farm in Iceland, which involved a lot of "playing and building stuff and riding horses," but not a lot in formal education. In fact, Rapace compared herself to The Jungle Book's Mowgli. "There were no boundaries, re...