Synnøve Macody Lund
☼ Born on 24 December 1976, in Stord, Norway
BiographySynnøve Macody Lund was born on May 24, 1976 in Stord, Norway. She is an actress and director, known for Jo Nesbø's Headhunters (2011), Ragnarok (2020) and Riviera (2017).
Synnøve is a stunning beauty, and a natural born actress. She is educated in literature, film and documentary filmmaking. She also worked as editor and a film critic furthermore she is an author as well. She began her acting career as the lead role in the internationally successful feature film Headhunters opposite Aksel Hennie and Nicolaj Coster Waldau, directed by the Oscar nominated director Morten Thyldum. She recently started in sequel of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', in 'The Girl in the Spider's Web', directed by Fede Alvarez, in a supporting role and in 2018 in the Polish crime series 'Illegals' directed by the award winning director Leszek Dawid. She was furthermore a series regular in the TV-series 'Acquitted', season 1+2, which is a huge hit in Scandinavia, and it was selected by 'The Hollywood Reporter's top '10 must see' TV shows. Synnøve is also one of the lead roles in the Scandinavian coproduced TV-series 'Black Widows', season 1+2, a remake of the successful Finland original. Synnøve's performance is extraordinary in the lead role in the thriller 'Haunted', by director Carl Christian Raabe, where she received outstanding reviews.
In the role of actor
Saw X (27/09/2023)
The Jigsaw killer seeks vengeance against those running a fraudulent cancer clinic in Mexico in Saw X. John Kramer (Tobin Bell), aka the notorious Jigsaw killer, is given at most a year to live from his brain cancer. One day, John comes across fellow cancer patient Henry Kessler (Michael Beach) and sees that he is […]
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (14/11/2018)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo returns in The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired by former NSA employee Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) to steal a program called Firefall, which can access the world’s nuclear missiles. Soon after completing the heist, Lisbeth’s apartment is ambushed by a group of men who […]
Headhunters (16/05/2012)
The Norwegian action-thriller Headhunters features a relatively simple story. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter, who moonlights as an art thief. He comes across a valuable painting that seems to permanently end his financial woes, however in the aftermath of this latest theft, he finds himself (literally) hunted by the painting’s owner Clas Greve (Game of Throne‘s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). I […]