Andrea Bræin Hovig

Andrea Bræin Hovig

Birth : 1973-07-19, Oslo, Norway

History

Andrea Bræin Hovig is a Norwegian actress, singer and children's book author.

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Andrea Bræin Hovig
Andrea Bræin Hovig
Andrea Bræin Hovig

Movies

Dancing Queen
Anne Berit
12-year-old Mina freaks out when famous hip-hop dancer ED Win moves to town and starts at her school. Mina falls in love and when ED announces he's forming a new dance group for a dance competition in town, Mina decides to audition. The only problem is that she can't dance.
Sick of Myself
Lisa
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.
Light from the Chocolate Factory
Ingrid
Ingrid tries, together with several acquaintances, to compose a song for the wedding of a common friend. However she's more occupied with her mother's death that she by accident contributed to.
Hope
Anja
A couple with a large blended family has grown apart. When the wife is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, their life breaks down and exposes neglected love.
Disco
Birgitta
On the surface 19-year-old Mirjam's life appears perfect. She is a world champion freestyle disco dancer and the pride of her modern, evangelical church. Yet her body is calling out for help and at the dance world championships, where she is defending her title, she collapses on stage. Her family's solution is for her to focus more on her faith. In search of answers, she turns to a stricter, more conservative church.
Beware of Children
Eva
During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.
The Birdcatcher
Rebecca
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
An Affair
Anita
A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
Apple
Sonja (neighbor)
A young woman invites her literature teacher to a discussion on a story about a man who wants to freeze the moment. She suggests that he is writing to disguise his own inner desires. They fall in love, and life takes an unexpected turn.
Anchors Up
Krana (voice)
After a brave rescue mission in stormy weather, a young rescue boat is headhunted to a larger harbor where he realizes that bigger is not always better.
Retract
Andrea
The unemployed performance artist Gritt struggles to make sense, as she moves below the successful surface of Oslo.
All the Beauty
Sarah (42)
Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship. The film presents three love stories about seemingly different couples; all named Sarah and David, but played by different actors in respectively their 20s, 30s and 40s.
Me and My Moulton
Narrator
A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.
I'm the One You Want
What would you say about a female teacher falling in love with a 15-year-old? What would you think when you heard her confession? How do you set borders for someone's love and feelings?
I Belong
Anne Hagen
A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. A warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another.
Rafiki
Mamma
Three friends - Julie, Mette and Naisha - are enjoying the first snow in the village. They have snowball fights with the boys and look forward to Christmas. One day Naisha suddenly disappears. With a secret address written in invisible ink as their only clue, they sneak onto the night train to the city. They need to find Naisha before the police do.
House of Fools
Maria
At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.
Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren
Felicie
The violinist Ole Bull was Norway's first superstar. He played at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, founded the first Norwegian theater and his own state in America, and is probably the only Norwegian who has sold his bath tub water on perfume bottles.
Tyven, tyven
Cecilie Lunde
Tyven, Tyven ("Hold My Heart") follows the tense relationship between a father and his young daughter. The father, Harald, has divorced Cecilie, his wife, after an ugly breakup which involved accusations of spousal abuse and child molesting. Furious, Harald kidnaps his 7-year-old daughter, Lisa, who he has been forbidden any contact with. Over the course of a few days, the father and daughter grow closer. The police, meanwhile, have organized a manhunt for Harald, and only one policewoman believes he is not a dangerous man.
De 7 dødssyndene
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
Hovmod
Catherine
Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.