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Born in 1965 in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik, the daughter of Gudmundur Gunnarsson (an electrician) and Hildur Hauksdóttir who divorced before her second birthday, Björk grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings. She started to study classical music at the age of 5 and released her first album in 1977 (mainly traditional Icelandic folk songs and international hits translated to Icelandic) when she was only 11. During her teenage years Björk became involved in several bands, most of them punk: Spit & Snot (1977), Exodus (1979-80), Jam 80 (1980), Tappi Tíkarrass (1981-83) (featured the documentary Rock in Reykjavik (1982)) and Kukl (1984-86). She then formed the pop group The Sugarcubes with Einar Örn Benediktsson and Sigtryggur Baldursson and eventually other members Þór Eldon (with whom she had a son in 1986), Margrét Örnólfsdóttir and Bragi Ólafsson. The band released its first single in 1986 and its first album, "Life's Too Good", in 1988, and discovered international success, especially in UK. While touring in the US with the Sugarcubes, Björk met Boris Acosta, a music connoisseur and now a film producer and director, who told her she would be very successful in the years to come. She was shocked to hear that and gracefully thanked him for his sweet words. During her Sugarcubes years, Björk also collaborated with the Icelandic jazz group Gudmundar Ingólfssonar Trio for the album "Gling-Glo" in 1990, and featured 808 State's "Ooops", which was the start of her electronic music interest. The Sugarcubes eventually split after a few albums in 1992 and in 1993. Björk released her first solo album, "Debut", in collaboration with producer Nellee Hooper. The worldwide success of the album (nearly 3 million copies sold) made possible her second album, "Post", in 1995, also with help of not only Nellee Hooper but techno gurus Graham Massey (from 808 State), Howie B. and Tricky, followed by the remix album "Telegram" the year after. After some problems in the UK, where she lived, she decided to go to Spain to record her third album, "Homogenic", released in 1997. Her main collaborators were the 'Icelandic String Octet', Mark Bell (from LFO), Mark Stent and again Howie B, and the album may be her most electronic. After Danish director Lars von Trier discovered her in the music video of "It's Oh So Quiet", he asked her to play the main role and to compose the music for his new movie Dancer in the Dark (2000). She won the Best Actress Prize in the Cannes Festival, and said that it would be her only cinema performance (although she'd already acted in the Icelandic movie The Juniper Tree (1990)) because it was too painful for her and because she considered herself a music artist and not a cinema artist. The original soundtrack was re-worked by her before being released as an album under the title "Selmasongs" in September 2000 (including a new version of the duet song "I've Seen it All" with Thom Yorke). Her fourth album, probably the most quiet, "Vespertine", featured a chamber orchestra, an Icelandic choir and harpist Zeena Parkins, and was also a successful collaboration with Matmos. She then successively released a book of photos and texts, series of DVD, a Greatest Hits album and two special boxes ("Family Tree" and "Björk Box"). She also took time to marry artist Matthew Barney, with whom she had a daughter in 2002. In August 2004 she composed and sang "Oceania" for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens. This song was featured on her fifth album, "Medúlla", released about two weeks after the ceremony. It is mostly made with vocals and some titles are close to experimental music, featuring choirs, Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq, Japanese artist Dokaka, Robert Wyatt, Rahzel and Mike Patton, but also collaborating again with programmers Matmos, Mark Bell and Mark "Spike" Stent.- Anna Björk was born on 12 March 1970 in Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Rederiet (1992) and Varannan vecka (2006).
- Anita Björk is able to use simple means to give depth and character to a role. She has a way of expressing any emotion just by raising an eyebrow or twitching her lips. This was something she used to a large extent in her best movie, Alf Sjöberg's Miss Julie (1951) where she played the young lady at a country manor, planning to elope with Jean the butler.
She was bitten by the acting bug in her teens and went to Stockholm. She started her acting studies at the Royal Dramatic Theater in 1942 and quickly got major roles. Her breakthrough came 1948 in Jean Genet's 'The Maids', followed by such roles as Agnes in 'Henrik Ibsen's 'Brand', Julie in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet', Eliza in George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' and Tintomara in 'Carl Jonas Love Almqvist''s 'Drottningens juvelsmycke'.
She met and fell in love with the writer Stig Dagerman and in 1951 she gave birth to a daughter. The three of them went to Hollywood for Anita to negotiate a role in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953). But when word came out that Anita wasn't married to Stig, Hollywood lost interest. His divorce from his ex-wife wasn't final until 1953 and apparently it wasn't acceptable to Hollywood for a contract player to live with someone married to somebody else.
In West Germany she played against Gregory Peck in Night People (1954) but when the movie failed at the box office, so did her career abroad. Also, her husband killed himself and Anita decided to stick to the Royal Dramatic Theater where she has appeared in more than 80 roles through the years. In movies, she has appeared mainly in supporting roles.
Of her movies, the most interesting are Miss Julie (1951), På dessa skuldror (1948) and Mannekäng i rött (1958). - Martin Björk was born on 7 November 1971 in Sweden. He is an actor, known for Naken (2000), Anna Holt - Polis (1996) and Fråga Olle (1999). He was previously married to Tina Nordlund.
- Tracy Bjork is known for Pretty Woman (1990).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Halvar Björk was born on 22 September 1928 in Borgvattnet, Jämtlands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Autumn Sonata (1978), Badarna (1968) and Ödets man (1960). He died on 12 November 2000 in Huddinge, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
- Mikko Björk is known for Bomfunk MC's: Freestyler (2000) and Lähiöterroristi (1999).
- Actress
- Writer
- Music Department
- Hails from Reykjavík Iceland. The lead in the award winning Let me fall directed by Baldvin Z. Eyrún is based in Copenhagen where she is studying acting in Den Danske Scenekunstskole (The Danish National School of Performing Arts) Fluent in her mother tongue Icelandic but also Danish and English. Next seen in The Witcher: Blood Origin.
- Lára Björk Hall is known for Lamb (2021).
- Producer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Director
Hanna Björk Valsdóttir is known for Dive: Rituals in Water (2019), Draumalandið (2009) and Jossakin on maa (2022).- Steve Bjork was raised in the small town of Wilmington, MA, a suburb 15 minutes outside of Boston. He has worked as a professional stand-up comedian for more than 20 years.
He's come a long way from the nights of frying up mozzarella sticks in the back room of an obscure comedy club in the Boston suburbs. He was a college student, using that part-time job to study the craft of stand-up comedy by catching glimpses of the performers on stage.
Today, Stephen Bjork is a polished veteran of the highly competitive Boston comedy scene with crisscrossing tours of the country under his belt. His material is intelligent, sometimes absurd, and always accessible. First and foremost, however, it is funny. What truly sets him apart from the teeming crowd of today's comedians is that you never have to ask Bjork to work 'clean.' Bjork takes everyday life and turns it upside down in a way that every demographic in any given audience can enjoy. And because he does it so well, no one ever misses the filth. A longtime favorite in nightclubs and colleges around the country, Bjork enjoys equal success in corporate settings. - Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Billy Bjork is known for DREAM: Data Rules Everything Around Me (2020), Clickbait: A Film About Films (2017) and Pushing Wood (2016).- Natalie Björk was born on 12 March 1988 in Sweden. She is an actress, known for Everyone Loves Alice (2002).
- Bjørk Storm Engelshardt Kirkegaard is known for Begyndelser.
- Samuel Björk is known for Ridge (2019).
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
AMANDA BJÖRK is a director and screenwriter. She graduated from the Stockholm University of the Arts, in 2019. In June 2020 she was selected by The Swedish Film Institute, European Film Promotion and KVIFF as one of the ten most promising directors in Europe.
Amanda strives to create raw and provocative portraits of the human being, often from a female point of view. Her interest is in telling stories about relationships, group dynamics and mental illness - with a large dose of dark humor, poetry, warmth and and absurdity. Amanda writes and directs across a wide range of genres and for young and adult audiences, for both film and television.
Amanda is in production as screenwriter and director for two seasons of the television series for young adults "Zombie" for SVT. She is also developing her debut feature film "Hysterika", which won the Wild Card Award from the Swedish Film Institute in 2019. In 2020, she made her short movie "Ingiis, vakna", which premiered in 2021. She has written and directed a number of short films and her graduation short film "Ladda Ur/To Discharge", premiered at Göteborg International Film Festival in 2020. She directed the documentary "Jag är en naturkraft/I am a force of nature" about the Swedish artist Silvana Imam in 2013 for SVT. In 2011, Amanda started the film production company Lampray, producing short films and documentaries, one them being "Kung Fury", which is the Best Short film in the world according to IMDB. "Kung Fury" also won a Guldbagge (Swedish Academy Award) for Best Short.
Amanda is also one of the founders of the feminist production company Lynx Studios, founded in 2013, which only works with female film workers. In 2015, Lynx Studios was awarded the "A-märkt-priset" by WIFT (Women in Film and Television) for their work.
Agent: Gro Janarv- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
- Íris Björk Grant is known for The New Year's Lampoon (1966).
- Director
- Animation Department
Karoline Björk is known for Goodbye Forever Maybe? (2024).- Bjørk Dueholm Lauridsen is known for Motor Mille og Børnebanden (2015).
- Adena Bjork was born on January 5, 1980 in Southern California. She is the second of four daughters born to Paul and Caryn Bjork.
At age 11, she got the role of the Little Dutch Girl in The Story Lady (1991) staring Jessica Tandy which began her career as actress in movies, television, and commercials. Soon after, she was cast in other features such as Harry and the Hendersons (1991) and Beethoven's 2nd (1993). She was also directed by Steven Spielberg in Jurassic Park (1993) as Lexi's Photo Double. - Iris Bjork Johannesdottir is an Icelandic actress and model based in London
Iris Bjork started dabbling with acting when she was a young girl and played lead roles in 3 different productions who entered Skrekkur and came 1st twice, Skrekkur is an annual talent competition for primary school students in Reykjavík.
Iris then started modeling when she was 17 years old, She did photo shoots and commercials but later on realized her passions were in acting for screen. She got her first glimpse of Method acting and Stanislavsky at The Theatrical Technology program (Leiktaekni Skolinn) in Reykjavik before she moved to London, to study acting for screen at MET film school.
In 2018 she did one year with master of the Method Brian Timoney at The Courtyard Theater. There she tried many different characters like Maggie in a Cat on a hot tin roof, Nora in a dolls house and Julie in Miss Julie.
Since 2019 Iris is enrolled in the AMAW acting studio in London where she is learning fantastic realism. There they use not one technique but rather learn how to use realistic acting and listening but also dab into different eras like Shakespeare.
Iris has always been very athletic, she practiced football for many years, as is she skilled in other various sports as boxing, Muay Thai, yoga, fitness, snowboarding and horse back riding. She also has a great passion for dancing, painting and the arts.