Malin ranked No.60 in AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women 2008 Edition. She was ranked No.59 in Maxim's Hot 100 List of 2008. She placed No.6 in Premiere.com's "The 40 Most Beautiful Hollywood Women (Right Now)" list in 2009.
She attended Parliament Oak Primary School and and the Niagara District High School in Ontario, Canada. She took up psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Malin: I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
Malin: (on her fight training for the movie "Watchmen") You go in and you have these amazing fighters that are doing this and they show you what to do. You try to do it and you look like a ballerina trying to do karate and it's so hard. It looks a lot easier than it is.
Malin: (on being compared with Cameron Diaz) Everyone is kind of projecting and thinking it's going to be great and thinking "It'll be like the Cameron Diaz thing." which would be wonderful if it happens.
Malin: (on her character in "The Heartbreak Kid") There are different stereotypes and truths that you put into scripts and of course she has a lot of them in this movie just to make her more of a character. I don't mind it because I think there's a truth to it.
Malin: (on her movie "Watchmen") It's not your typical superhero film. We don't, per se, have superhero powers. We're just vigilantes, fighting off crime. It's all about the [Vietnam] war and real issues - and there's a lot of psychology to it.
Malin: (on her character in "The Heartbreak Kid") Going from something sweet and innocent to something completely not and that no man ever wants to be married to? Absolutely not--I wouldn't even want to be married to someone like her.
Malin: Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
Malin: I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.