Icelandic actress and television presenter
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir |
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Born | (1981-04-29) 29 April 1981 (age 43)
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Occupation(s) | Assistant director of RÚV, television presenter and actress |
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Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir (born 29 April 1981)[1] is an Icelandic actress and television presenter who is the assistant director of RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster. She is a former Miss Iceland.
Life and career
Ragnhildur was born Keflavík where she lived most of her youth, excluding four years the family spent in Denmark.[2] Her father is Jón Þór Harðarson, a mechanical engineer. Her mother, Ragnhildur Steinunn Maríusdóttir, died when she was seven years old.[1] In the 1990s Ragnhildur was a gymnast; she won a bronze medal in the national championships in 1998 and was named to the national team.[3] She completed an undergraduate degree in physiotherapy at the University of Iceland.
In 2003, she won Miss Iceland.[4]
Ragnhildur began working for RÚV in 2004,[5] with Ópið, a programme for teenagers, and was later a journalist and co-host on the primetime news/talk show Kastljós,[6][7] and host of Dans dans dans, the Icelandic version of the American TV show So You Think You Can Dance.[5][8] She has also hosted documentaries and worked as a scriptwriter, editor, and programme developer for RÚV,[7] and in January 2018 she was named to a newly created post as assistant director of the company.[5][7]
She hosted Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2007, the contest to decide Iceland's representation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007,[9] and many subsequent versions of the show, and is on the board of the Icelandic organisation with primary responsibility for organising the show,[5] and is the spokesperson for Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest.[10]
In 2017, with Edda Hermannsdóttir, she published a book of interviews on gender equality, Forystuþjóð.[11]
Filmography
Personal life
In 2018 Ragnhildur married the footballer Haukur Ingi Guðnason, her partner since 1996;[12] they have four children.[13]
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