Björk
Acting
Born 1965-11-21
Reykjavík, Iceland
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on influences and genres including electronic, pop, jazz, experimental, trip hop, alternative, classical, and avant-garde music.
Born and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes. After the band's breakup in 1992, Björk embarked on a solo career, coming to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), while collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Her other albums include Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015), Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2022).
Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold between 20 and 40 million records worldwide. 31 of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me", and "Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Violently Happy". Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 15 Grammy nominations. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter.
Björk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I've Seen It All". Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015.
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Filmography
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Acting
51 credits
Saturday Night Live
Top of the Pops
The Colbert Report
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Oscars
TFI Friday
The Northman
Click
Victoires de la musique
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The BRIT Awards
The Frank Skinner Show
MTV Unplugged
Dancer in the Dark
Can Creativity Save the World?
Sternstunde Kunst
The Nineties
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party
Prêt-à-Porter
New Life
The Sparks Brothers
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Why Are We Creative?
Coachella
Heart of the Festival
Björk: Minuscule
Björk: Volumen
Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House
Anna and the Moods
I've Been Twelve Forever: The Work of Director Michel Gondry
Björk: Voltaïc
Björk: Volumen Plus
The Work of Director Spike Jonze
Arakimentari
Björk: Biophilia Live
Björk Orchestral II
Björk: Live at Riverside Church
The Juniper Tree
Out of Thin Air
Fear
The Sugarcubes: Live Zabor
Björk: MTV Unplugged 1994
Monk in Pieces
The Work of Director Michel Gondry
Björk: Shepherd's Bush Empire 1997
Free Tibet
When Björk Met Attenborough
Fungi: The Web of Life
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Björk: Vessel 1994
Other credits
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Eurotrash
The Word
Anton
Moomins and the Comet Chase
Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House
Black Lake
The Day Iceland Stood Still
Kyrie Eleison
Björk Orkestral
Hollow
Writing
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Directing
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