Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 April 1981 |
| Occupation(s) | Assistant director of RÚV, television presenter and actress |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2007 Astrópía
- 2009 Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
- 2009 The Big Rescue
- 2010 Mamma Gógó
- 2011 Polite People
Personal life
[edit]In 2018 Ragnhildur married the footballer Haukur Ingi Guðnason, her partner since 1996;[12] they have four children.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Helga Kristina Einarsdóttir (13 February 2005). "Tengsl: Jón Þór Harðarson véltæknifræðingur og Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir háskólanemi". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
- ^ Ásdís Ásgeirsdóttir (12 September 2020). "Lífið er ævintýralegt ferðalag". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ "Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir: The best gymnast in Keflavik 1998". Gymnastics Slovakia. Archived from the original on 9 September 2004.
- ^ "Ragnhildur Steinunn valin ungfrú Ísland". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 24 May 2003 [23 May 2003].
- ^ a b c d "Ragnhildur Steinunn aðstoðardagskrárstjóri RÚV". Kjarninn (in Icelandic). 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Öðruvísi Kastljós í Sjónvarpinu í kvöld". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 10 October 2005.
- ^ a b c Marta María Jónasdóttir (15 February 2018). "Ímynd 'ofurkonunnar' stórhættuleg". Morgunblaðið (interview) (in Icelandic).
- ^ "Stýrir íslenskri útgáfu af So You Think You Can Dance". Fréttatíminn (no longer online) (in Icelandic). 5 August 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Marcus Klier (20 January 2007). "Tonight: first Icelandic semi final". ESC Today.
- ^ "Stjärnorna säljer gamla kläder på loppis". Islandsbloggen (in Swedish). 16 May 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Guðný Hrönn (7 February 2017). "Ragnhildur og Edda gefa út bók um jafnréttismál". Vísir (in Icelandic).
- ^ Ragna Gestsdóttir (24 July 2018). "Ragnhildur Steinunn og Haukur Ingi giftu sig á Ítalíu – 'Við erum loksins hjón'". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic).
- ^ Ragna Gestsdóttir (29 March 2019). "Ragnhildur Steinunn og Haukur Ingi eignuðust tvíbura". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic).
