Gro Katrine Engelstoft is a Danish-born actress, screenwriter, and sometime yoga teacher. A native of Copenhagen, she spent her grade school years in Nuuk, Greenland, a place with no trees, before returning to Denmark at the age of 15.
Shortly after graduating High School Gro began working as a production and editor's assistant on utterly forgettable movies in the Danish film industry, interspersed with waitressing gigs and general confusion. She eventually managed to get herself back in school, and while completing college prep courses in film studies and photography quite unexpectedly found herself in an Acting 101 class. This in turn compelled her to undertake a 1 year full-time drama program in Copenhagen. She spent a couple of years studying with Danish actress Lotte Horne (formerly Royal Danish Theatre) and working in a somewhat posh delicatessen before moving to New York, taking her full-course American training at HB Studio NYC, studying with the legendary Uta Hagen and trying to lose her accent. She has also been fortunate enough to be a student of the great American theater icon, director and teacher Wynn Handman (American Place Theatre), one of the founding fathers of modern Off-Broadway theater, until his passing in 2020.
In 2010, Gro’s first real stab at professional screenwriting, a final draft of the feature film Plastic Indian, won 1st prize at the Tribeca Film Festival (Tribeca All Access). Around the same time she got herself certified as a yoga teacher and has taught at some of NY’s premiere yoga studios.
Gro is fully bilingual (Danish/English) and divides her time between New York and Denmark. She confesses to a rather embarrassing weakness for English period flicks. And Pixar. And Star Trek.