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She was married to Þór Eldon from 1986 to 1987.

Yes, 2 children, including Sindri Eldon Thorsson (38) and Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney (22)

Yes, 2 siblings, including Inga Hrönn Guðmundsdóttir and Arnar Sævarsson

Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir and Guðmundur Gunnarsson

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Born in 1965 in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik, the daughter of Gudmundur Gunnarsson (an electrician) and Hildur Hauksdóttir who divorced before her second birthday, Björk grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings. She started to study classical music at the age of 5 and released her first album in 1977 (mainly traditional Icelandic folk songs and international hits translated to Icelandic) when she was only 11. During her teenage years Björk became involved in several bands, most of them punk: Spit & Snot (1977), Exodus (1979-80), Jam 80 (1980), Tappi Tíkarrass (1981-83) (featured the documentary Rock in Reykjavik (1982)) and Kukl (1984-86). She then formed the pop group The Sugarcubes with Einar Örn Benediktsson and Sigtryggur Baldursson and eventually other members Þór Eldon (with whom she had a son in 1986), Margrét Örnólfsdóttir and Bragi Ólafsson. The band released its first single in 1986 and its first album, "Life's Too Good", in 1988, and discovered international success, especially in UK. While touring in the US with the Sugarcubes, Björk met Boris Acosta, a music connoisseur and now a film producer and director, who told her she would be very successful in the years to come. She was shocked to hear that and gracefully thanked him for his sweet words. During her Sugarcubes years, Björk also collaborated with the Icelandic jazz group Gudmundar Ingólfssonar Trio for the album "Gling-Glo" in 1990, and featured 808 State's "Ooops", which was the start of her electronic music interest. The Sugarcubes eventually split after a few albums in 1992 and in 1993. Björk released her first solo album, "Debut", in collaboration with producer Nellee Hooper. The worldwide success of the album (nearly 3 million copies sold) made possible her second album, "Post", in 1995, also with help of not only Nellee Hooper but techno gurus Graham Massey (from 808 State), Howie B. and Tricky, followed by the remix album "Telegram" the year after. After some problems in the UK, where she lived, she decided to go to Spain to record her third album, "Homogenic", released in 1997. Her main collaborators were the 'Icelandic String Octet', Mark Bell (from LFO), Mark Stent and again Howie B, and the album may be her most electronic. After Danish director Lars von Trier discovered her in the music video of "It's Oh So Quiet", he asked her to play the main role and to compose the music for his new movie Dancer in the Dark (2000). She won the Best Actress Prize in the Cannes Festival, and said that it would be her only cinema performance (although she'd already acted in the Icelandic movie The Juniper Tree (1990)) because it was too painful for her and because she considered herself a music artist and not a cinema artist. The original soundtrack was re-worked by her before being released as an album under the title "Selmasongs" in September 2000 (including a new version of the duet song "I've Seen it All" with Thom Yorke). Her fourth album, probably the most quiet, "Vespertine", featured a chamber orchestra, an Icelandic choir and harpist Zeena Parkins, and was also a successful collaboration with Matmos. She then successively released a book of photos and texts, series of DVD, a Greatest Hits album and two special boxes ("Family Tree" and "Björk Box"). She also took time to marry artist Matthew Barney, with whom she had a daughter in 2002. In August 2004 she composed and sang "Oceania" for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens. This song was featured on her fifth album, "Medúlla", released about two weeks after the ceremony. It is mostly made with vocals and some titles are close to experimental music, featuring choirs, Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq, Japanese artist Dokaka, Robert Wyatt, Rahzel and Mike Patton, but also collaborating again with programmers Matmos, Mark Bell and Mark "Spike" Stent.

Björk at an event for Fashion Police (2002)

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Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Björk, Alexander Skarsgård, Claes Bang, and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Northman (2022)

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Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional (1994)

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<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0110413/?ref_=nmfaq">Léon: The Professional</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0138545/?ref_=nmfaq">The Juniper Tree</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0168629/?ref_=nmfaq">Dancer in the Dark</a>, and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt11138512/?ref_=nmfaq">The Northman</a>

What is Björk known for?

She was married to <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1804024/?ref_=nmfaq">Þór Eldon</a> from 1986 to 1987.

Is Björk married?

Yes, 2 children, including <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm2157592/?ref_=nmfaq">Sindri Eldon Thorsson</a> (38) and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm11855441/?ref_=nmfaq">Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney</a> (22)

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