Synnøve Macody Lund (born 24 May 1976) is a Norwegian journalist, film critic, model, and actress. , she appears in the 2020 Netflix series '' Ragnarok'' and the 2020 Sky TV series ''

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Early life

Lund was born on 24 May 1976 in

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, Norway. She has a degree in television production and film studies.

Career

Lund has worked as a film critic for '' NATT&DAG'' (Norwegian; translation, ''Night&Day''), and as a journalist, after earlier work as a

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. She has been working as an actress since 2011, appearing first as the character Diana Brown in

Morten Tyldum Morten Tyldum (; born 19 May 1967) is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing the thriller film '' Headhunters'' (2011), based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing the historical dram ...

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film '' Headhunters'' (Norwegian, ''Hodejegerne''), an action thriller based on the 2008

Jo Nesbø Jon "Jo" Nesbø (; born 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian novelist and musician. His books had sold over 50 million copies worldwide by 2021, making him the most successful Norwegian author to date. Siegel, Lee (5 May 2014).Pure Evil: Jo Nesbø and th ...

novel of the same name. The

nomination was for Best Foreign Language Film. Lund's entry into acting is described, thus, by '' Headhunters'' co-star Aksel Hennie: "When I first read the script I pictured Synnove because I knew her from before and she had reviewed every single film I've done and Morten (the director) asked me, 'Is she a film critic? Yeah. Has she reviewed any of my films? Yeah. Was the review good? Yeah. OK then we can try her', So we tried her and she came so prepared—more prepared than any actress." Her subsequent roles have included the role of Sara in the short ''Sandslottet'' (2014), and as the character Tonje Sandvik in the drama series ''

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'' (2015) alongside

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. She appears as the murderous Johanne Rønningen in '' Black Widows'' (2016), a remake of the Finnish series '' Mustat Lesket'', distributed by

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. She holds the role of Gabriella Grane in the 2018 film ''

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'', based on the novel of the same name by

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, which in turn is based on characters in the book series by

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. , there was a report that Lund had contracted with the publisher

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to produce a novel, on subjects that were at the time undisclosed. Her novel "Personar du kanskje kjenner" (translation "''People you may know''") was published in 2016. In December 2022, Lund was confirmed by ''

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'' to have signed on to appear in ''

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'', the tenth installment of the ''

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'' film series, released in September 2023.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

* ''

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'' (2018), Astrid

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Synnove Macody 1976 births Norwegian film actresses People from Stord 21st-century Norwegian actresses Living people