Jorunn Kjellsby

Jorunn Kjellsby

Born: April 7, 1944
in Norway
Jorunn Kjellsby (born 7 April 1944) is a Norwegian actress. She has worked both for Trøndelag Teater (1961–1963), Oslo Nye Teater (1968–1970) and Det Norske Teateret (1971–). She has also had almost 30 movies,  such as Bryllupsfesten (1989) and Den som frykter ulven (2004). In 2006 she was awarded an honorary Amanda Award.

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Movies for Jorunn Kjellsby...

Title: Epleslang
Character: Mor
Released: May 1, 2018
Type: TV
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Haunted
Title: Haunted
Character: Birgit
Released: November 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in the beautiful winter landscape of Norway, Haunted follows Catherine as she travels back to her old family estate after her father's death. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to confront her family's mysterious past.
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Title: Sofia Flux og det magiske høreapparatet
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: TV
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Unns Kjærlighet
Title: Unns Kjærlighet
Character: Berit
Released: June 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Unn is 80 years old, lives in a nursery home and is looking for love. Her body bear witness of a long life, but on the inside beats the heart of a twenty year old girl. When a 25 year old boy becomes Unns new nurse, her heart beats faster and faster, and an old love bloom.
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Title: A Somewhat Gentle Man
Character: Karen Margrethe
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
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Manhunt
Title: Manhunt
Character: Kafédame
Released: January 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Its the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened of somethingbut what she cant begin to describe in her carsick terror. Suddenly the group are ambushed and left unconscious.
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Cry in the Woods
Title: Cry in the Woods
Character: Haldis
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
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Title: Hos Martin
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: TV
Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.
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When the Devil Holds the Candle
Title: When the Devil Holds the Candle
Character: Irma Funder
Released: November 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A party ends in horror as a teenage girl is shot by her boyfriend. Friends Zipp and Andreas flee from the scene, apparently just innocent witnesses to the crime. A lonely middle-aged woman named Irma is receiving mysterious phone calls at night. Two seemingly different stories, but soon their paths will cross and it can only end in tragedy - as the Devil holds the light.
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You Really Got Me
Title: You Really Got Me
Character: Servitrise
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to lose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.
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Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced
Title: Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced
Character: Ingrid Lund-Bergseter
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Norwegian mockumentary following the trials and tribulations of boyband Boyzvoice, their fans and management.
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Title: Jul i Blåfjell
Character: Tistel
Released: December 1, 1999
Type: TV
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Høyere enn himmelen
Title: Høyere enn himmelen
Character: Fru Beck
Released: October 20, 1993
Type: Movie
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Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly
Title: Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly
Character: Siss
Released: March 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.
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Frida - Straight from the Heart
Title: Frida - Straight from the Heart
Character: Butikkdame
Released: August 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...
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The Wedding Party
Title: The Wedding Party
Character: Maja Pedersen
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
A great crazy-comedy from Wam & Vennerød. Bryllupsfesten (English: The wedding party) is a 1989 Norwegian comedy film written by Petter Vennerød, and directed by Vennerød and Svend Wam, starring Knut Husebø and Eli Anne Linnestad. Businessman Carl Otto "Totto" Holm (Husebø) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and plans a staged robbery of the family's Munch engraving.
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Hotel St. Pauli
Title: Hotel St. Pauli
Character: Teatersjef
Released: March 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Jor and Gerda is a loving couple that lives together in Copenhagen. Jor is trying to make a breakthrough as a writer, without any luck so far. His struggles have caused Gerda to provide for them by selling sexual favors on the street.
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The Dream Castle
Title: The Dream Castle
Character: Else
Released: September 25, 1986
Type: Movie
The families are talking about moving together in a house, and finally does it. After a year renovating, they are to celebrate their new collective. But the year living together has taken it's toll on their relations.
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Farewell Illusions
Title: Farewell Illusions
Character: Astrid
Released: March 12, 1985
Type: Movie
A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.
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Open Future
Title: Open Future
Character: Mor til Pål
Released: December 26, 1983
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Victoria L.
Title: Victoria L.
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.
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The Witch Hunt
Title: The Witch Hunt
Released: August 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider—she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand—clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made "witch." Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress—hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.
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Julia Julia
Title: Julia Julia
Character: Siv
Released: August 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Julia washes train coupes for a living. When she meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the Minister of Justice, she falls in love and gets him involved in criminal activities
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Life and Death
Title: Life and Death
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
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Darker Than Night
Title: Darker Than Night
Character: Ellen
Released: August 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Ellen and Rolf met 17 years ago, and since then has spent every day and night together. Still together, life shifts between quarrels and passionate love.
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To Norway, Home of Giants
Title: To Norway, Home of Giants
Character: Norwegian
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A short comedy starring John Cleese, directed by Johnny Bergh and Bjørn Sand.
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Operation Cobra
Title: Operation Cobra
Character: Arim's mother
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
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Says Who..!?
Title: Says Who..!?
Character: Salamidame
Released: August 25, 1978
Type: Movie
The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
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John Gabriel Borkman
Title: John Gabriel Borkman
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
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Grandma and the Eight Children
Title: Grandma and the Eight Children
Character: Dame i butikken
Released: March 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The eight children Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten Minstemann, live with their parents in a tiny apartment in the city. Grandmother lives in the country side, but one day she comes to town for a visit. Everything is new and unusual for her, and she doesn't act like other people in the city. However, the children helps her out and they go for a trolley ride. When it's time for Grandmother to go back home she has no money for the train ticket. She spent her money on kitchen supplies, and now the children tries to come up with a plan to get her home. Easier said than done
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The Silent Majority
Title: The Silent Majority
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
"The Silent Majority" - Young Øystein lives in a small apartment outside Oslo, where every day is filled with everyday habits, and he is constantly looking for someone to marry. Then he meets Britt, which hates conformity and traditional values.
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Oss
Title: Oss
Character: Tove
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
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Them and Us
Title: Them and Us
Character: Lasse's mother
Released: March 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and have to spend the night in jail. The next morning they are sent home - Geir to his alcoholic mother, Lasse to his disillusioned and abusive father.
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Five Days in August
Title: Five Days in August
Character: Dame i bank
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyday life and moved in with bohemians and artists. We follow these two women for five days, as they come in contact with many different people.
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Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Title: Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Released: March 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering from the flu. When he arrives at the scene, the body is gone, to Lilly Hansen's dismay. Shortly after a body is found in nearby Palace Park...