Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir (born 29 April 1981) is an Icelandic actress and television presenter who is the assistant director of

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, the

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ic national broadcaster. She is a former Miss Iceland.

Life and career

Ragnhildur was born

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where she lived most of her youth, excluding four years the family spent in Denmark. Her father is Jón Þór Harðarson, a mechanical engineer. Her mother, Ragnhildur Steinunn Maríusdóttir, died when she was seven years old. In the 1990s Ragnhildur was a gymnast; she won a bronze medal in the national championships in 1998 and was named to the national team. She completed an undergraduate degree in

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at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

. In 2003, she won Miss Iceland. Ragnhildur began working for RÚV in 2004, with ''Ópið'', a programme for teenagers, and was later a journalist and co-host on the primetime news/talk show '' Kastljós'', and host of ''Dans dans dans'', the Icelandic version of the American TV show '' So You Think You Can Dance''. She has also hosted documentaries and worked as a scriptwriter, editor, and programme developer for RÚV, and in January 2018 she was named to a newly created post as assistant director of the company. She hosted ''

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'', the contest to decide Iceland's representation at the

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, and many subsequent versions of the show, and is on the board of the Icelandic organisation with primary responsibility for organising the show, and is the spokesperson for Iceland at the

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. In 2017, with Edda Hermannsdóttir, she published a book of interviews on gender equality, ''Forystuþjóð''.

Filmography

*2007 '' Astrópía'' *2009 '' Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre'' *2009 '' The Big Rescue'' *2010 '' Mamma Gógó'' *2011 '' Polite People''

Personal life

In 2018 Ragnhildur married the footballer Haukur Ingi Guðnason, her partner since 1996; they have four children.

References

External links

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