Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on influences and genres including electronic, pop, jazz, experimental, trip hop, alternative, classical, and avant-garde music. Born and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes. After the band's breakup in 1992, Björk embarked on a solo career, coming to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), while collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Her other albums include Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015), Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2022). Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold between 20 and 40 million records worldwide. 31 of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me", and "Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Violently Happy". Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 15 Grammy nominations. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter. Björk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I've Seen It All". Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 21, 1965 (60)
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Actor, composer and writer, also director
- 11 on MovieCove · 32 credits in all
What are Björk's films like?
Across their 12 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Ideas and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 12
A split, not a type: Light 8 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 4
A split, not a type: Gentle 6 · Charged 3 · Intense 3
Steady 9 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 11 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 1
Casual 4 · Engaged 8 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 8 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 11 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Allyas Margit in The Juniper Tree (1990)
- Heroas Selma Jezkova in Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet5
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Björk's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Björk's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
32 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 70 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Cornucopia(2025)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Day Iceland Stood Still (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Fungi: The Web of Life(2023)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Hollow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Northman(2022)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Björk Orkestral (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Fear (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Black Lake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Björk: Biophilia Live (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Anna and the Moods (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Kyrie Eleison (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Drawing Restraint 9 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
The Sugarcubes: Live Zabor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Björk: Vespertine Live at Orchard Hall (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Heartbeat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Von Trier's 100 øjne(2000)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Dancer in the Dark(2000)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Björk: Tibetan Freedom Concert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Anton (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Ready to Wear(1994)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Eurotrash (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
The Young Americans(1993)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
The Word (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
The Juniper Tree(1990)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
SSL-25 (Special Squad Laugarnesvegur 25) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Flugþrá (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Broken Glass (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
New Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
Career shape
Star power in the 91st percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 31 titles from 1983 to 2025; peak year 1999.
Film career
Peak 1999 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1990Screen debut· The Juniper Tree
- 1990First top-billed film· The Juniper Tree
- 2000Oscar nomination· Dancer in the Dark
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
1 major award from 20 major nominations, 1994–2023.
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Album
- Oscar, nominated · Best Music, Original Song
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
+1 other major body · 2 nominations
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Pop Instrumental Performance
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- Cannes award, won
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Short Form Music Video
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Short Form Music Video
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Alternative Music Performance
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Music Video, Short Form
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Music Video, Short Form
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Björk's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 81st percentile, the median of all 11; across their 12 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 87th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 11 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 71/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Björk work with?
People who share at least 2 of Björk's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Catherine Deneuve shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Catherine DeneuveShared titles: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Von Trier's 100 øjne (2000)See all 2 shared titles with Catherine Deneuve
- David MorseShared titles: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Von Trier's 100 øjne (2000)See all 2 shared titles with David Morse
- Peter StormareShared titles: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Von Trier's 100 øjne (2000)See all 2 shared titles with Peter Stormare
Mixed roles
- Lars von TrierShared titles: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Von Trier's 100 øjne (2000)See all 2 shared titles with Lars von Trier
- Vibeke WindeløvShared titles: Dancer in the Dark (2000), Von Trier's 100 øjne (2000)See all 2 shared titles with Vibeke Windeløv
