Jorunn Kjellsby

Acting

Jorunn Kjellsby

Born 1944-04-07 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jorunn Kjellsby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Open Future poster
5.7

A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.

Open Future

1983

Unns Kjærlighet poster
NR

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.

Unns Kjærlighet

2012

Hotel St. Pauli poster
3.1

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.

Hotel St. Pauli

1988

Operation Cobra poster
7.0

The US Secretary of State is on an official visit to Oslo. Among other things, the Middle East conflict will be discussed at the meeting. The Norwegian police are on high alert, helicopters are circling above the treetops, and there are fears of terrorist attacks against the minister. A terrorist group that has planned to kill the Secretary of State overpowers an innocent family in Fornebu and uses their house as a base for planning the assassination. The resourceful son of the house and his two schoolmates devise a cunning plan to stop the assassination plans. A missile system called Cobra plays an important role in the drama.

Operation Cobra

1978

Five Days in August poster
3.0

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.

Five Days in August

1973

Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly poster
5.5

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.

Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly

1992

A Somewhat Gentle Man poster
6.5

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.

A Somewhat Gentle Man

2010

Johanna's Christmas poster
NR

Christmas story based on a short story by Grete R. Jenseg. Nothing is as it should be this Christmas. Mom is having a baby soon, so they have to be home on Christmas Eve.

Johanna's Christmas

1999

Haunted poster
4.6

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.

Haunted

2017

The Witch Hunt poster
5.9

The year is 1630. A young woman in Laupstad comes to a small mountain village. She witnesses a woman being hunted and captured.

The Witch Hunt

1981

Oss poster
3.6

Following political upheaval, traditionally poor countries have stopped exporting raw materials. The Western world is entering an economic crisis, which is rapidly spreading to Norway. Unemployment rises sharply, and it becomes more difficult to obtain food. The government does not officially acknowledge the crisis, but fear spreads among the population. Demonstrations between the population and the police are now a daily occurrence. Thomas and Vera are also unemployed. The only way out of their predicament is to move out of the city and rent an abandoned farm. The sale of food is banned. Military forces arrive to confiscate what little they have. Later, the city population follows, traveling to the countryside in panic to secure something to eat.

Oss

1976

Manhunt poster
5.0

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.

Manhunt

2008

Darker Than Night poster
3.8

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.

Darker Than Night

1979

Farewell Illusions poster
4.3

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.

Farewell Illusions

1985

The Dream Castle poster
5.2

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.

The Dream Castle

1986

Grandma and the Eight Children poster
7.2

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

Grandma and the Eight Children

1977

Frida - Straight from the Heart poster
6.1

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...

Frida - Straight from the Heart

1991

Cry in the Woods poster
5.5

An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.

Cry in the Woods

2004

No artwork available
NR

A family must move from a national romantic farm to the society down the valley.

Erfaringer

1973

You Really Got Me poster
6.6

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.

You Really Got Me

2001

Them and Us poster
6.0

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.

Them and Us

1976

The Silent Majority poster
5.5

"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.

The Silent Majority

1977

Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced poster
5.6

Norwegian mockumentary following the trials and tribulations of boyband Boyzvoice, their fans and management.

Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced

2000

The Wedding Party poster
6.9

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.

The Wedding Party

1989