
Birthdate: May 24, 1976 (50 Years Old)
Birthplace: Stord, Norway
Synnøve Macody Lund boasts one of the most unusual and eclectic profiles in international cinema. The Norwegian-born Lund has been a model, a journalist, a film critic, a novelist, and a film and TV actor. After starting as a fashion model, Lund shifted into journalism, and then as chief film critic for the Norwegian arts and culture journal, NATT&DAG.
Leading Norwegian director Morten Tyldum cast Lund for her feature debut opposite Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Headhunters (2011), based on Jo Nesbø’s novel and becoming the highest-grossing title in Norwegian film history, earning $15.3 million.
Lund portrayed Queen Viktoria in the Mikkel Brænne Sandemose-directed fantasy adventure, The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King (2017), which became Norway’s second-highest-grossing movie in 2017. Synnøve Macody Lund landed a plum supporting role in her first Hollywood-produced movie, the sequel, director-writer Fede Álvarez’s sequel and reboot, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018), starring Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Stephen Merchant, but disappointing with a poor box-office return for MGM and Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing.
Lund’s next Hollywood appearance was a major supporting role in director-editor Kevin Greutert’s Saw X (2023), the tenth entry in the Saw series, co-starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, and Steven Brand, and released via Lionsgate.
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