Gry Wernberg Bay (born 15 August 1974) is a Danish actress. She is best known for her sexually provocative starring role in the feature film '' All About Anna'' (2005).

Career

Gry Bay got her first breakthrough with a recurring part in the German RTL television series ''Dr. Monika Lindt – Kinderärztin, Geliebte, Mutter'' (1996), and afterwards appeared in the German TV-movie ''Hosenflattern'' (1998). Back in Denmark, she got her first feature film starring roles in the hip hop comedy ''Slim Slam Slum'' a.k.a. ''Joystick Nation'' (2002), for which she also composed several of the songs, and in David Noel Bourke's sexy, psychological thriller '' Last Exit'' (2003). She then made headlines by landing the title role in

Zentropa Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film ''Europa'' (1991), which started the colla ...

's sexually explicit romantic comedy '' All About Anna'' (2005), co-produced by

Lars von Trier Lars von Trier ('' né'' Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish filmmaker, actor, and lyricist. Having garnered a reputation as a highly ambitious, polarizing filmmaker, he has been the subject of several controversies: Cannes, in addition to nomina ...

, for which she won the Scandinavian Adult Award as Best-Selling Scandinavian Star of 2006. At the 2005

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...

, Gry Bay once more appeared nude in

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female b ...

's video installation ''Homo sapiens sapiens''. She has since appeared in the feature films ''Betonhjerter'' (2005) and ''Grønne hjerter'' (2006). In the 1990s, Gry Bay appeared in stage musicals such as ''

West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play '' Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid ...

'', '' Grease'', ''

Guys and Dolls ''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also bo ...

'', '' Crazy for You'' and '' Me And My Girl'', and at Copenhagen's Nørrebros Teater she played the part of Brooke Ashton in

Michael Frayn Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce '' Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy''. His novels, such as '' Towards the End of the M ...

's comedy ''

Noises Off ''Noises Off'' is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn. Frayn conceived the idea in 1970 while watching from the wings a performance of '' The Two of Us'', a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. He said, "It was funnier ...

''. She was lead singer in the band XPY, with the remaining members of Crispy following Mette's death.

Personal life

Bay holds a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in drama and music from

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

. She has also studied mediumship and healing (

Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine. Reiki practitioners use a technique called ''palm healing'' or ''hands-on healing'' through which a " universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the ...

3, Eric Pearl, trance). On 20 December 2009, Bay gave birth to a baby girl.Gry Bay: Se min baby
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Selected filmography

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