What does the heroine of the cult video of the group Ace of Base look like today, which all the girls of the 90s wanted to look like

The first bars of the Swedish hit and the first images of the music video instantly awaken memories. The story, filmed in warm sepia tones, unfolds on the screen: a sad girl, it seems, recalls the events of the previous day. An episode flashes before his mind, in which one hand confidently pushes away the outstretched other. The heroine is darker than the clouds.

After thinking enough, she pulls herself together and goes to a party – does a thick eyeliner, fluffs her hair and paints her lips in the fashion of that time, combining a dark contour and light lipstick. At the bar, the girl meets a guy who, judging by the latest blows, meets her expectations. Again we see frames with hands – this time they are connected.

The text of the song comments on the video sequence – Ace of Base (the four musicians appear on the screen alternately with the development of the heroine’s story) sings about the one who is tired of “disposable” relationships and dreams of find “the one”.

The role of the girl in the 1992 video, which became an overnight hit in Sweden and far beyond its borders, went to aspiring Danish actress Christiane Bjerg Nielsen, who was friends with the manager of the group. She was 26 at the time and she was renting the very apartment in which the main events of the video take place. “It was a lovely old flat with dramatic black and white tiles on the floor. They came to Copenhagen and came to me just to pick up some stuff, they saw this tile and a piano – and decided they couldn’t find a better place. And I was attached to the apartment,” recalls Christiane.

Ace of Base was very happy with the result of the effort: the total video budget was just over $2,000,000. Christiane did not receive any fees – only world fame.

Alas, the role of the most recognizable girl of the 90s, whose image and makeup were tirelessly copied by fashionistas of that time, did not become a breakthrough for her.

No, Christiane Bjerg Nielsen didn’t disappear: her life went pretty well and she even became quite famous in her native Denmark as a theater and film actress. In addition, Christiane, who is now 57, plays music in the band Labrador and keeps a popular blog.

Her most famous role was the fairy Candace in the cult children’s series Pyrus – several generations of Danish children grew up there, so Christiane admits she is often recognized on the streets.

The actress has two sons with husband Jan Christensen and loves spending time with them. Christiane is philosophical about the fact that she failed to gain a foothold on the crest of world fame.

Bjerg Nielsen fondly reminisces about his youthful days and admits that he “dragged after fame”, then came the time of ordinary adult life and its joys, it is the normal course of things.