Jannike Grut Actress, Dubbing Actress, Voice Over Actress

Jannike Grut is born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, with a Danish father and Swedish mother. Later she's lived in Copenhagen, Denmark where she also got her BA in acting, and in Los Angeles where she had a workpermit for three years.

THEATRE, COMEDY, FILM
Grut performed a lot in both theatre, music theatre and stand-up comedy before she got into the films around 2009. Since then she has been seen in more than 50 productions, whereof several international. DURING 2024-25 she is seen in the highly acclaimed Netflix series "Barracuda Queens" Multiple awardwinning TV-series "Gaslight" where she got fantastic reviews as the narcisistic mother of Simon, one of the two lead roles. and TV series "Evil" (2022) with Gustav Skarsgaard.
Earlier multiple award winning film: "Garden lane" a feature also with 3 nominations and 1 win at the Swedish film Academy Awards.

VOICE ACTING: Jannike Grut has made numerous voice jobs through out her career. Both for serious companys, municipalities asf, commercials (for "good" causes), dubbing cartoons at Sun Studios and Egmont as well as VO:s and dubbing live-action.
She started her voice-career in the Swedish Radio P3 - in one of Swedens biggest radio comedy shows at the time, "Glädjetåget" at the national broadcast company SR, with Swedish comedy star Robert Gustavsson.


Grut's range from being in serious dramas like BECK, Hamilton, Wallander to Action comedy movies like in "The Duck pond" where she plays a Danish robber. In the Swedish television comedy series Katsching! she plays with renowned comedian Per Andersson and in the German TV drama "Der Kommissar und das Meer" ("Inspector and the Sea") she was in one of the leads.

Overview

NationalityDenmark, Sweden

LanguagesDanish (mother tongue), Swedish (mother tongue), English (fluent), English – American (fluent), English – British (fluent), German (fluent), Norwegian (fluent), French (good), Spanish (good), Russian (basic)

Born1964, Stockholm, Sweden

Age range50 - 62

Height174 cm

Ethnic typesMiddle Europe/Caucasian, Northern European / Scandinavian

Place of residenceStockholm - Stockholms lan (Sweden), London - England (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Berlin - Berlin (Germany), Stockholm - Stockholms lan (Sweden), Copenhagen - Hovedstaden (Denmark)

Possible accommodationLos Angeles (United States of America), New York (United States of America)

Real nameJannike Grut

MembershipsFackförbundet Scen & Film (Sweden)

Skills/Talents

Languages Danish (mother tongue), Swedish (mother tongue), English (fluent), English – American (fluent), English – British (fluent), German (fluent), Norwegian (fluent), French (good), Spanish (good), Russian (basic)

Dialects Svealand (Sweden) (native dialect)

Accents Danish (native accent), Swedish (native accent), German (very good), French (Canadian) (good), Spanish (good)

Singing. Choral Singing (very good), Punk (very good), Rap (very good), Rock (very good), Stage singing (very good), A Cappella (good), Ballad (good), Blues (good), Cabaret (good), Chanson (good), Country (good), Folk (good), Funk (good), Gospel (good), Hip hop/rap (good), Jazz (good), Musical (good), Pop (good), Pop song (good), Soul (good)

Vocal pitch / Dubbing voice Alto

Musical instruments Bass clarinet (good), Bass guitar (good), Guitar (good), Harmonica (good), Keyboards (good), Piano (good), Saxophone (good), Soprano Saxophone (good), Accordion (basic), Banjolele (basic), Bongo drums (basic), Brass instruments (basic), Clarinet (basic), Drums (basic), Trumpet (basic), Ukulele (basic)

Driving licences / Other permits Driver’s licence car, Driver’s licence motorbike

Other Skills Alexander Technique, Artistic Director, Composer, Director, Juggling, Motion Capture, Narration, Translator, Workshop Director

Appearance

Training

Awards/Nominations

2022 The broad humor festival (United States of America) - Award

2019 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (United States of America) - Award

2019 Västerås Filmfestival (Sweden) - Nomination

2019 Los Angeles Film Festival (United States of America) - Award

2018 Film Music Live Festival (Sweden) - Award

CV CV - Film