Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 23, 1981
Known For
The Danish Woman
Rambo, Napoleon and Pippi Longstocking - all rolled into one - and she lives next door. When Ditte Jensen retires with honours from the Danish Secret Service, she moves into an apartment block in Reykjavik, where she plans to tend to her garden and live out her life in anonymity. But Ditte cannot stop being who she is: an elite soldier and a warrior. Soon, the apartment building becomes a battlefield for a better world. With her deep-rooted sense of justice, she sees her neighbours' problems and feels compelled to help - whether they want her help or not. And in her world, the end justifies the means. Always.
Cold
An investigation by Óðinn on decades old deaths at a juvenile treatment center, as he proceeds he suspects that the sinister secrets are connected to his ex-wife's mysterious suicide.
Dramarama
Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?
Dís
Dís, 23, is still to decide what to do with her life. Obsessed by the thought of being "abnormally normal", a mere photocopy of long lost original, she wanders from one odd job to another and tries out various cources at the University. A guiding light comes her way from an unexpected direction.
As in Heaven
Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and future in her imagination, travelling back to the 14th century.
Mentor
Beta signs up for a standup comedy competition despite having never been on stage before. She asks Húgó, the winner of the same competition 10 years earlier for help with her comedy. This awakens a desire for the past in Húgó, while Beta tries to overcome her insecurities.
Band
Icelandic performance art meets Spinal Tap in this wickedly fun look at women behaving creatively. Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five at their gigs and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and their artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become popstars or quit the band for good. What follows is a make-it-or-break-it story of a band that's not really a band, pursuing a goal that is not actually attainable. Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections and triumphs.
The Resourceful Girl
A story of a ten year old girl, Erla, who finds a flute nobody else can hear and meets a boy nobody else can see. The boy turns out to be an elf who tells her that a spell has been cast on her father. Much to Erla's horror, her father is turned to stone when he's moving rocks around in the park, looking for worms. Erla's new found friend is the only one who can guide her on a search for a magic egg possessed by the big trolls in the mountains and said to be the only remedy for people who have been turned to stone.
Beast Slayer
The year is 2038. All of the glaciers have melted and the country is split into islands, but out of the melted glaciers emerge magical beasts.
Animalia
Surrounded by toy animals, a father struggling with loss searches for one last connection.
Filmography
as Sigurveig
as Lára
as Herself
as Ormhildur
as Mother
as Rakel
as Dís
as Tóta
as Hrefna