Biography
Nørby was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of opera singer Einar Nørby. She studied two years at the Danish Royal Theatre. She has received a number of awards and recognitions including the Ingenio et Arti medal in 2006. At the 27th Guldbagge Awards she was nominated for the award for Best Actress for her role in Freud's Leaving Home. She has been married a number of times. First in 1956 to architect Mogens Garth-Grüner, and then to actor Henrik Wiehe. She met her next husband, Italian...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ørkenens Sønner: Fingeren på pølsen
2025
as Medvirkende i indslag
At a time when everyone is turning off the gas and saving electricity, it can be difficult to remain optimistic and hopeful for better times. But fear...

Året der gik- 2023
2023
as Sig selv

Rosa and the Stone Troll
2023
as Stone Troll (voice)
Rosa is a little flower fairy who always lived alone in her rose bush. More than anything she dreams of having a friend, but she is too scared to ever...

Ghitas hemmeligheder
2022
as Sig selv

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Rigmor Mortensen
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

Toscana
2022
as Inge
When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

Resin
2019
as Else
The dangerous paranoia lurking beneath the seemingly idyllic existence of a family of hermits living on a remote island begins to come to the fore whe...

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
2019
as Birthe Rasmussen
After a lifetime of caregiving, 81-year-old Birthe is separated from her daughter Karen, who has Downs Syndrome. Birthe is struggling with dementia an...

Before the Frost
2019
as Agnes
A struggling farmer in 19th-century Denmark must go against his morals and make a deal with a wealthy neighbour in order to secure his family’s surviv...

Key House Mirror
2015
as Lily
Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is because of her husband Max's illness: a series of stroke...
Historien om Olsen Banden
2015

Jauja
2014
as Woman in the cave
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Silent Heart
2014
as Esther
Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her ...

Fra "Harlekin" til "Krøniken": 60 års TV-drama
2011
as Sig selv

People in the Sun
2011
as Fru Sørensen
Two couples decide to spend their Midsummer holiday together and make it an evening to remember — a traditional summer comedy, except for the fact tha...

The Christmas Party
2009
as Gerda
When Anders Bo begins his new job as a car salesman, he is given the special task of infiltrating the small competing car shop, Holger's Auto during t...

The Wild Swans
2009
as Fatamorgana / The Old Lady
Elise, a princess, lives happily together with her eleven brothers. When her father, the king, marries again, he banishes Elisa. Hereafter his new wif...

The Wild Swans
2009
Director
Elise, a princess, lives happily together with her eleven brothers. When her father, the king, marries again, he banishes Elisa. Hereafter his new wif...

Original
2009
as Harriet
Henry has been acting the human chameleon all his life - a pale reflection of other people's expectations. One day Henry's best friend Jon talks him i...

God, Smell and Her
2009
A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal and what can not be seen, but there is. A woman t...

Ernst-Hugo
2008
as Self
A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything...

Everlasting Moments
2008
as Miss Fagerdal
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters...

What No One Knows
2008
as Ingrid Deleuran
When Thomas´ sister dies in an accident, he discovers that her death may be connected to their deceased father´s work in military intelligence. As Tho...

O'Horten
2007
as Fru Deinboll
Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly ...

Spelar du ikväll?
2006

Welcome to Verona
2006
as Virginia
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her...
Skide godt, Balling!
2005

Four Weeks in June
2005
as Lilly
Sandra comes to a new town after being convicted of assault after a fight with her boyfriend. She moves into an apartment where her 80-year old neighb...

The Inheritance
2003
as Annelise
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Chri...
Kokken
2002
as Posedame

Arsenik og gamle kniplinger
2002
as Abby Brewster

Shake It All About
2001
as Bine
Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one...

Count Axel
2001
as Baronesse Gjerløv
Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements ...

Help! I'm a Fish
2000
as Anna (voice)
Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one pr...

A Place Nearby
2000
as Fru Nielsen
The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the trut...

The Honour of the House
1999
as Fru Kristensen
A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pr...

The Kingdom II
1997
as Rigmor Mortensen
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "t...

Credo
1997
as Svigermor
Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist...

Hamsun
1996
as Marie Hamsun
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during ...

Like It Never Was Before
1995
as Hjördis
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the se...

The Kingdom
1994
as Rigmor Mortensen
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff a...

Family Matters
1993
as Jan's mother
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his b...

Sofie
1992
as Frederikke
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an ...

The Best Intentions
1992
as Karin Åkerblom
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely,...

Freud Leaving Home
1991
as Rosha Cohen
In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the wo...

Smykketyven
1990
as Ruth
Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is drawn into dramatic events beyond his control, an...

Walter and Carlo in America
1989
as Flora Nymann
The steward Walter and the cobbler Carlo is tasked to provide not the Little, but the High Mermaid to two agents in Kennedy airport in New York. Alrea...

Memories of a Marriage
1989
as Regitze
Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively...

Aarhus by Night
1989
A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories.

Katinka
1988
as Helene
A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Ka...

Hip Hip Hurrah!
1987
as Henny
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, r...

Babette's Feast
1987
as Narrator (voice)
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 1...

The Wolf at the Door
1986
as Ida Molard
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inab...

Fra regnormenes liv
1985
as Johanne Louise Heiberg
Danish theater production from 1985. Per Olov Enquist wrote this chamber play about three cultural figures from Danish history. H.C. Andersen, who tri...

Den ubetænksomme elsker
1982
as Helena, Sanna's Mother
Psychological drama about a doctor who, after taking over a practice in a small community, becomes entangled in some of the local intrigues. This has ...

Your Money or Your Life
1982
as Ellen Worm, Claus' ex-kone
An architect experiences health problems following a professional and personal setback. The conflicts culminate when he discovers that the businesspeo...

Wolf Hour
1981
as Anna
The adaptation of Helle Stangerup's psychological horror, telling the story of a married couple who raises wolfes, in order for the husband to study t...
Helligtrekongersaften
1981
Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awakens the love of the beautiful Olivia (Susse Wold). V...

Undskyld vi er her
1980
as Sekretær
A farce about cousins Aage and Viggo, whom Aage's girlfriend Else no longer wants living with them. The cousins then become embroiled in a rebellion a...

Danmark er lukket
1980
as Akademiker
In the future, Denmark has been made a nuclear waste dump and the Danish language is banned.

Kvindesind
1980
as Bente
A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband a...

It's a World Full of Children
1980
as Annemarie
Susanne, a journalist, and Morten, a cellist, desperately want a child, but are unsuccessful. The situation leads to desperate acts, occasional drunke...

Charly & Steffen
1979
A sequel to "Me and Charley", it starts with Steffen's graduation from a secondary school in Århus (Denmark), where he later that day bumps into Charl...

Kick Me in the Traditions!
1979
as Sygeplejerske
Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick at his principal's behind and is committed to a ps...

Me and Charly
1978
as Helle, Steffens mor
Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Ve...

Vandalism
1977
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from hi...

Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
as Madame Natasha
When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.

Going for Broke
1977
as Skuespilleren
Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.

Louises hus
1977
as Louise
Louise is a frustrated housewife. She returns home after a three months recreation following a nervous breakdown. She tries to find out exactly what h...

That Brief Summer
1976
as Kirsten
Kirsten gets divorced in her early 40s and moves with her son to her parents' home in Hjørring. Here she falls in love with a German officer, without ...

Only the Truth
1975
as Ilse Brehmer
A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman den...

Good and Evil
1975
Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of tableaux...

Bertram og Lisa
1975
as Lisa
Bertram is very happy with his life, but is encouraged to seek new challenges. Bertram is tasked with getting Merland to sign a contract with the muni...

The Misanthrope
1974
as Célimène
Bergman took one of his favourite plays to Copenhagen for a guest performance, which was even broadcast on Danish TV. In his Copenhagen The Misanthrop...

Et dukkehjem
1974
as Nora
In her husband's opinion, Nora spends too much money. When Nora receives a visit from Mrs. Linde, she confides a secret to her. Nora has borrowed mone...

Solens børn
1972
as Elena

Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Residents of the old house are quite happy with their existence. But once they find out that the authorities plan to demolish the entire neighborhood ...

Hooray for the Blue Hussars
1970
as Frida
Lieutenants Adam and Ditlev dream of being accepted into the Guard Hussar Regiment, and Captain von Rabenberg puts the two rivals to the test.

Værelset
1970
as Eva
The married couple Pierre and Eva live in a conventional middle-class environment, but Pierre increasingly feels alienated from people and things.

Amour
1970
as Elisa
This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affectio...

The Song of the Red Ruby
1970
as Embla
A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. ...

The Olsen Gang in a Fix
1969
as Bodil Hansen
A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank...

Ladies Man
1969
Mrs. Jonsen discovered after her husband's death, that he was not at all a paragon, she thought. Her sister and some diary notes reveal him as a man w...

What a Pity About Daddy
1968
About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy a...

Life with Daddy
1967
as Bitten Nielsen
Herbert and Bitten live in a lovely house, happily married with two children. Herbert is a teacher at a secondary school, and he writes poetry in his ...

Love Thy Neighbour
1967
as Britt
Sven Gjeholm is a writer of sex books. His wife finds this a bit odd, considering he's not really into sex. Since Sven can't get any peace to write hi...

Wife on vacation
1967
as Bodil Thorsen
Allan Thorsen is tired of his wife, but he finds it difficult to tell her that he wants a divorce. So he arranges a skiing holiday where she will fall...

Nu stiger den
1966
as Caroline
A folk comedy loosely based on the career of Danish inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer. We follow Ellehammer, his loyal assistan...

Flagermusen
1966
as Adele
Doctor Falke takes revenge on Gabriel von Eisenstein because, after a carnival, he left him lying in a park, disguised as a bat, so that he would be r...

Ich suche einen Mann
1966
as Barbara Schönfelder
Somehow it doesn't work out with marriage, so the charming and extremely pretty fashion designer Barbara Schönfelder, in her late 20s, entrusts hersel...

The Girl and the Playboy
1965
as Ung pige på gaden
A millionaire gets amnesia after a hit to the head and now he has to rediscover his past and decide what kind of man he wants to be in the future.

Erik Soya's 17
1965
as Vibeke
In the summer of 1913, 17-year-old Jacob, a Danish high school student, lives in the frustrating limbo between boyhood and manhood. He worries about h...

It's Nifty in the Navy
1965
as Hanne Hansen
The three young fishermen, Svend, Knud, and Valdemar, have bought a new cutter, but haven't paid it off yet. It is a real fishing film, but it is not ...

Majorens oppasser
1964
The Danish minister of defense decides to join the army incognito to observe. This causes CHAOS. It also causes him to meet the major's daughter. He e...

Three Girls in Paris
1963
as Hanne
Three girls in Paris is the story of three Danish girls (Ghita Nørby, Susse Wold and Hanne Borchsenius) traveling to Paris, but after having placed su...

Hvis lille pige er du?
1963
as Eva
The young, hard-working, and extremely attractive Eva Brun works as secretary to Director Jansen. But when her boss becomes a little too fond of Eva's...

The Queen's Guardsman
1963
When the Swedes occupy a Danish manor house, Svend Poulsen decides to help the family to safety. Along the way, Ib is taken prisoner. Svend Poulsen an...

The Girl and the Press Photographer
1963
as Lene Kristiansen
Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get ideas for how to get a scoop for the magazine "Tit ...

Sextet
1963
Six people of different ages and with varying mental health problems are forced to spend the night together by bad weather and react upon each other.

Rikki og mændene
1962
as Rikki
Rikki was devorced recently, and now find herself paying the bills on her own. And life is not cheap, especially when you have a young child to care f...

Oskar
1962
as Eva Hansen
Oskar? That's my driver. And Tina, my maid, must have taken my suitcase with her to the baron - the one my daughter should have been engaged to. But n...

Den kære familie
1962
as Ida Friis
Copenhagen around the turn of the century - December 29th, 1899. Great merchant and shipowner Jacob Friis is one of Copenhagen's richest men. His home...

Crazy Paradise
1962
as Edith Ibenholdt
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.

Han, hun, Dirch og Dario
1962
as Marianne Borg
Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast...

Landsbylægen
1961
as Grethe Strand
The old doctor, Dr. Bonnesen, is a tired old man. He wants to sell his practice and has been corresponding with the young doctor Jens Winther. Jens ar...

Flemming på kostskole
1961
as Frk. Birk
Flemming argues a lot with his parents. So they agree that it would be best for Flemming to go to boarding school. Here he encounters a completely dif...

The Musketeers
1961
It is the war year of 1658, and the winter in February is so harsh that the belts are frozen. The Swedish King Charles X Gustav, who has arrived in Ge...

Den grønne elevator
1961
Hans and Mona decide to give their spouses something to think about by getting caught in a compromising situation during a joint vacation. To lighten ...

Min kone fra Paris
1961
as Irene Hagenfryd

Peter's baby
1961
as Tony
Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the sa...

Flemming and Kvik
1960
A Danish movie about the life of Flemming and his best friend Kvik.

Sømand i knibe
1960
as Eva Thygesen
Eva comes to visit the ship, and when the alarm is raised and they are facing the sea, she hides in a cabin. This leads to various complications, not ...

Baronessen fra benzintanken
1960
as Anne von Rosensteen
The film begins with Baron von Rosensteen's funeral. As Rosensteen has no heirs, the old Rosensteen Castle is to be inherited by the Rabenfeldt family...

Frihedens pris
1960
as Lis
The young sailor Morten returns home from his travels in the midst of the general strike of 1944, where he is confronted with the occupation. He joins...

Charley's Aunt
1959
as Laura Hornemann
Charles and Peter have passed their law degree and are looking forward to wooing a few girls in the country. For that, they need a chaperone and persu...

De sjove aar
1959
as Marianne Birk
Outside the large hotel, there is a lot of activity. It is teeming with foreigners, buses arrive and depart, and indoors the air is filled with foreig...

A Hullaballoo at the Castle
1959
The cheerful, traveling musicians Flink and Villy meet sweet music in the form of two girls. Unfortunately, the chrome nut is tone deaf and chases the...

3 må man være
1959
as Kate Halling
A lawyer has a wife and a mistress. He loves them both equally high and together, they're the perfect wife.

Vagabonderne paa Bakkegaarden
1958
as Hanne
Martin the vagabond is cheerful and musical like few others. Together with his new friend Anders, he sings his way to a meal and a place to sleep. Dur...

Styrmand Karlsen
1958
as Anne Marie Bøgelund
First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son Rob...

Det lille hotel
1958
Marianne has the most amazing blue eyes, so it's no wonder that Per falls head over heels in love with her. Per has just returned from abroad to help ...

Jul i Skovridergaarden
1957
as Eva Lund
Finn and Claus are best friends and both have a thing for their cute friend Eva. They both go to Copenhagen to study law but Claus would rather study ...

Sin Alley
1957
as Else
A fresh faced country boy comes to Copenhagen looking for a job and falls in with a group of hoodlums who use him as bait to lure older gay men they c...

The Young Have No Time
1956
as Helle
A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.