Björk

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1965-11-21 (59 years old)

Place of Birth Reykjavík, Iceland

Also Known As Björk Guðmundsdóttir, 비요크, The Sugarcubes

Björk

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2023
Michel Gondry: Do it Yourself

as Self - Singer (archive footage)

2023
Fungi: The Web of Life

as Narrator (voice)

2022
The Northman

as Seeress

2021
2021
The Sparks Brothers

as Self (voice)

2017
Out of Thin Air

as Self (archive footage)

2017
The Nineties

as Self

2015
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2011
YouTube Trilogy

as Self (archive footage)

2009
2007
Anna and the Moods

as Anna (voice)

2006
Drawing Restraint 9

as Occidental Guest

2005
The Colbert Report

as Self - Musical Guest

2004
Arakimentari

as Self

2003
2003
2003
2002
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self - Musical Guest

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as Selma Jezkova

2000
Click

as Self

1998
1996
I Miss You

as Herself

1996
TFI Friday

as Self

1994
Prêt-à-Porter

as Self (uncredited)

1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Musical Guest

1990
1989
1988
Broken Glass

as Maria

1982
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest

1964
Top of the Pops

as Self - Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Sound

2022
Hollow

as Music

2015
2014
Angel

as Music

2007
Kyrie Eleison

as Songs

2006
Drawing Restraint 9

as Original Music Composer

2004
Oceania

as Music

2003
Unravel

as Music

2003
Pluto

as Music

2002
2001
Heartbeat

as Music

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as Music Producer

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as Music Arranger

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as Musician

2000
1996
I Miss You

as Music

1996
Anton

as Songs

1989
Flugþrá

as Music

Writer

1996
I Miss You

as Lyricist

Director

2009
Björk: Voltaic

as Director

Crew

2018
Fear

as Additional Dialogue