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Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. [12] She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018 [13]), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, [14] having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, after Björk was born.
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy [7] film written and directed by Lars von Trier.It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate.
The Juniper Tree is a 1990 Icelandic medieval fantasy drama film written and directed by Nietzchka Keene.Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Juniper Tree", the film was shot in black-and-white in a small budget in 1986.
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Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, and Alexander Skarsgård previously joined the cast of the Iceland-set historical drama. Björk joins Nicole Kidman in Robert Eggers' Viking movie The Northman Skip to ...
A shortened version of the movie, lasting 74 minutes, was released on Apple TV+ as part of the Apple Music Live series on January 24, 2025. [5] The full-length movie was previewed exclusively for Björk and collaborators at the Smárabíó cinema in Reykjavík on January 22, before being theatrically released in Iceland from February 1, 2025. [ 2 ]
It was Björk's second feature film lead appearance, having previously starred in the Icelandic television movie, Glerbrot (1987), and Nietzchka Keene's The Juniper Tree (1990). For her performance in Dancer in the Dark , Björk received critical acclaim, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and one Academy Award , and won the Best Actress ...