Born and raised in Iceland, Anita Briem is the daughter of two musicians, the drummer Gunnlaugur Briem and back-up vocalist Erna rarinsdttir. When she…more
As part of her training at RADA Anita Briem learned Restoration and Elizabethan dance, skills that would be vital in her portrayal of Jane Seymour in The Tudors.
Auditioning for her first role at the age of nine had been Anita Briem's grandmother's idea, but she liked acting so much that she chose it as a career.