Kristbjörg Kjeld

Kristbjörg Kjeld

Born: June 18, 1935
Kristbjörg Kjeld (born June 18, 1935) is an Icelandic actress. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1962. She won the 2010 Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for her performance as Mamma Gógó in Mamma Gógó.

Movies for Kristbjörg Kjeld...

Title: Afturelding
Character: Hildur
Released: April 9, 2023
Type: TV
Years after burning out and falling from grace, a middle aged, 90s handball legend seeks to redeem himself by returning to his childhood club to coach the women's team where he clashes with a new generation of women in a post #MeToo society.
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Driving Mum
Title: Driving Mum
Character: Mamma
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
The death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
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The Life of Bella
Title: The Life of Bella
Character: Hildur
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Bella is a struggling writer who gets a job assisting an elderly lady. She soon discovers that this job is a lot harder than she thought. Will she give up or gain a new perspective on life?
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Alma
Title: Alma
Released: May 7, 2021
Type: Movie
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Title: Zack Snyder's Justice League
Character: Old Icelandic Woman
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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Miss Regina
Title: Miss Regina
Character: Regína
Released: December 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Two brothers are asked by their grandmother to kill their sister's boyfriend.
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I
Title: I
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A young trans person travels to the city in search of the freedom to be themselves
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Title: Prisoners
Character: Herdís
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.
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The Together Project
Title: The Together Project
Character: Auður, la vieille dame islandaise
Released: June 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
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Sparrows
Title: Sparrows
Character: Grandmother
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
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Ein Sommer in Island
Title: Ein Sommer in Island
Character: Alrún Grímsdótt
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: Movie
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Playing with Balls
Title: Playing with Balls
Character: Mary
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A lesbian in midlife crisis acts on her desire to escape the day to day routine only to find disappointment instead of that absolute bliss she hoped for.
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Of Horses and Men
Title: Of Horses and Men
Character: Hildur
Released: August 30, 2013
Type: Movie
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
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King's Road
Title: King's Road
Character: María
Released: March 26, 2010
Type: Movie
After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
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Mamma Gógó
Title: Mamma Gógó
Character: Mamma Gógó
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.
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Country Wedding
Title: Country Wedding
Character: Brynhildur
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.
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Jar City
Title: Jar City
Character: Katrín
Released: October 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
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Col Tempo
Title: Col Tempo
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Savior
Title: Savior
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
The incredible cinematography of SAVIOR sweeps viewers away into the Icelandic outback and into a beautiful young girl's journey inside her body and soul to find her true self. Forced by her neglectful parents to spend the summer in a camp for much younger children, Kaja runs away. On her journey, she encounters the grave dangers of the exotic Icelandic wilderness and is forced to face her deepest fears. This coming-of-age story follows Kaja as she learns to embrace the one source of comfort she will always have--herself.
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Cold Light
Title: Cold Light
Character: Álfrún
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: Kristín
Released: September 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
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The Seagull's Laughter
Title: The Seagull's Laughter
Character: Grandmother
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
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No Such Thing
Title: No Such Thing
Character: Nurse Joan
Released: May 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
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Fiasco
Title: Fiasco
Character: Helga
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.
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Slurpinn & Co.
Title: Slurpinn & Co.
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Privacy
Title: Privacy
Character: Hólmlaug
Released: August 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his family. A gallery of humorous, off-beat characters is revealed, who's seemingly ordinary lives conceal bitter divorces, passionate second marriages, vengeance, luck and misfortune, crime and punishment.
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Title: Sail Boats of Heaven
Character: Lisbet
Released: October 9, 1994
Type: TV
An Icelandic drama miniseries created by Þráinn Bertelsson. The series takes place in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and follows the lives of an influential family in the fishing industry.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Pretty Angels
Title: Pretty Angels
Released: February 18, 1990
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Flugþrá
Title: Flugþrá
Released: May 27, 1989
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Under the Glacier
Title: Under the Glacier
Character: Hnallþóra
Released: February 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Our hero is Umbi (an acronym for emissary of the bishop), sent by him to undertake an important investigation at Snæfell-glacier. In particular he is to look into the conduct and behavior of Jón Prímus, the old pastor at Snæfell. Fantastic rumors are rife: amongst other things it is said that a corpse is lodged in the glacier! Armed with his tape recorder and notebook, Umbi embarks upon his mission. He tries to question the weird locals, a weird lot, but gets evasive answers. Slowly he is dragged into a quagmire of strange happenings and his efforts to understand only make him confused. If at the beginning he is a chipper, a mere device, by the end of the story he is inextricably involved, a committed participant in the bizarre events.
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In the Shadow of the Raven
Title: In the Shadow of the Raven
Character: Sigrid
Released: October 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...
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Ghost Story
Title: Ghost Story
Character: Móðir Elsu
Released: February 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A young student starts working as a night watchman in the Icelandic TV-house which is supposed to be haunted. Together with a make-up girl working there, he pretends to be a red-haired ghost. But what started out as a joke, soon becomes no laughing matter.
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Dot Dot Comma Dash
Title: Dot Dot Comma Dash
Character: Ásta
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a little boy learning about life, about divorce, military occupation, the Beatles, little girls and death.
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The Typist
Title: The Typist
Released: March 20, 1972
Type: Movie
The story spans over 45 years and shows the daily work routine of two co-workers.
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The Girl Gogo
Title: The Girl Gogo
Character: Gógó
Released: October 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Ragnar has left his family farm and works as a taxi driver in Reykjavík in the early sixties. He's drawn to the beautiful but unhappy girl Gogo and hopes to build a better life with her. But she's a lost soul and their brief romance results in tragedy.