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Vegferð
''Vegferð'' (''Journey'') is an Icelandic television comedy mini-series developed by Glassriver. It is written by Víkingur Kristjánsson and directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson and premiered on Stöð 2 on 4 April 2021. It is a six-part series that follows fictional versions of friends and actors Ólafur Darri and Víkingur on a road trip through Vestfirðir to reshape their longtime friendship. Cast * Víkingur Kristjánsson as Víkingur *Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Ólafur Darri * Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir as herself *Pétur Ernir Svavarsson * Pálmi Gestsson as himself *Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson as himself *Elfar Logi Hannesson as himself * Vivian Ólafsdóttir as Billa *Þorsteinn Gunnarsson as father-in-law *Helga Vala Helgadóttir Helga Vala Helgadóttir (born 14 March 1972) is an Icelandic lawyer, former member of the Althing, and an actress. She was a member of the Althing, elected in the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election for the Reykjavík North constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir
Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir (born 1983) is an Icelandic actress and singer. A prominent stage actress, she appeared as Sophie in Reykjavík City Theatre performance of the '' Mamma Mia!'' musical. In 2014, she appeared in the TV show ''Ævar vísindamaður'' and in 2021, she appeared as a fictional version of herself in the comedy series ''Vegferð''. Early life Þórunn was born and raised in Ísafjörður where she attended Menntaskólinn á Ísafirði. In 2006, she graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts Iceland University of the Arts ( ) is an Icelandic institution of higher art education, located in Reykjavík, which offers the only university-level degrees in the arts in Iceland.Lisa Z. ValdimarsdottirIceland Academy of the Arts, Department of .... Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kristjansdottir, Thorunn Arna Living people 1983 births Thórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir Thórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir Thórunn Arna Kri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víkingur Kristjánsson
Víkingur Kristjánsson (born 26 March 1972) is an Icelandic actor and screenwriter. He is known for '' Trapped'', '' The Valhalla Murders'', ''Vegferð'', ''Réttur'' and ''Ríkið''. He was one of the founders of the theatre group Vesturport. Early life Víkingur was born Neskaupstaður and lived in Eskifjörður for his first two years until he moved to Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ... where he lived until he turned 16-years old. His father died in the 1986 Ljósufjöll air crash. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kristjansson, Vikingur Living people 1972 births Vikingur Kristjansson Vikingur Kristjansson Vikingur Kristjansson Vikingur Kristjansson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (born 3 March 1973) is an Icelandic and American actor, screenwriter, and producer, known for his roles in films such as ''Children'', '' The Deep'', '' The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'', and '' Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'', in addition to television series such as ''Fangavaktin'', '' Trapped'', '' NOS4A2'', '' Lady Dynamite'', and '' Severance''. He has also provided the Icelandic voice of characters in animated films such as ''Ice Age'', '' Lilo & Stitch'', ''Brother Bear'', and '' Kung Fu Panda''. Early life and education Ólafur Darri Ólafsson was born in the US state of Connecticut on 3 March 1973, the son of Icelandic parents. His mother is a nurse, and his father was studying medicine in Connecticut at the time of his birth, thus granting Ólafur both Icelandic and American citizenship. He returned to Iceland with his parents when he was around four years old. Ólafur grew up in Reykjavík, where he was educated at Reykjav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Ólafsdóttir
Vivian Didriksen Ólafsdóttir (born 1984) is an Icelandic actress. She is best known for her roles in '' Cop Secret'' and ''Operation Napoleon''. Early life Vivian was born in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands to an Icelandic father and an Icelandic-born Faroese mother. When she was three years old, the family moved back to Iceland. Selected filmography * '' Trapped'' (2019) (TV-series) * '' Vegferð'' (2021) (TV series) * '' The Last Fishing Trip'' (2020) * '' Cop Secret'' (2021) * '' Black Sands'' (2022) (TV series) * '' The Very Last Fishing Trip'' (2022) * ''Operation Napoleon ''Operation Napoleon'' (sometimes with subtitle ''Frozen Conspiracy'', ) is an Icelandic thriller film directed by Óskar Þór Axelsson, starring Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox and Iain Glen. It is based on Arnaldur Indriðason's best sellin ...'' (2023) References External links * {{IMDb name, 5028456, Vivian Ólafsdóttir 1984 births Icelandic actresses Icelandic people of Faroese descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stöð 2
Stöð 2, literally Station 2, was an Icelandic subscription television channel. Founded in 1986, it was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting. Sister channels under the Stöð 2 name include Stöð 2 Sport and Stöð 2 Bíó. Stöð 2 was the second-oldest private television station in the Nordic countries, after MTV3 in Finland. It was last operated by Sýn, until it was discontinued in favour of the Sýn brand in 2025. History New media laws of 1986 During the big BSRB strike in the fall of 1984, almost all of RÚV's activities shut down and several illegal radio stations sprung up. As a result, consideration was given to revising the broadcasting laws during the tenure of Minister of Education Ragnhildar Helgadóttir. A new law, which allowed private radio and television stations, was approved by Alþingi on June 13, 1985, and came into effect at the beginning of 1986. Until that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldís Amah Hamilton
Aldís Amah Hamilton (born 1991) is an Icelandic actress. She is known for playing the lead role in the 2021 TV crime drama series '' Black Sands''. For her role as Ástríðr in the 2024 video game '' Senua's Saga: Hellblade II'', Hamilton was nominated for the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role. Early life and education Aldís Amah Hamilton was born in 1991 in Germany to an Icelandic author and journalist Alda Sigmundsdóttir and an American father who were working there as English teachers. She moved with her mother to Iceland at the age of three and grew up in Vesturbær. She graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2016. Career Aldís is an Icelandic actress. During her studies in 2016, she appeared as Desdemona in the Vesturport's performance of ''Othello'' in the National Theatre of Iceland. In 2020, Aldís appeared in the Netflix's Icelandic original series '' Katla,'' directed by Baltasar Kormákur. In 2021 it was announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Comedy
Television comedy is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media. While there are several genres of comedy, some of the first ones aired were variety shows. One of the first Television in the United States, United States television programs was the comedy-variety show ''Texaco Star Theater'', which was most prominent in the years that it featured Milton Berle (from 1948 to 1956). The range of television comedy has become broader, with the addition of sitcoms, improvisational comedy, and stand-up comedy, while also adding comedic aspects into other television genres, including Drama (film and television), drama and News broadcasting, news. Television comedy provides opportunities for viewers to relate the content in these shows to society. Some audience members may have similar views about certain comedic aspects of shows, while others will take different perspectives. This also relates to developing new social norms, sometimes acting a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Comedy Television Series
Icelandic refers to anything of, from, or related to Iceland and may refer to: *Icelandic people *Icelandic language *Icelandic orthography *Icelandic cuisine See also * Icelander (other) * Icelandic Airlines, a predecessor of Icelandair * Icelandic horse, a breed of domestic horse * Icelandic sheep, a breed of domestic sheep * Icelandic Sheepdog, a breed of domestic dog * Icelandic cattle Icelandic cattle ( ) are a breed of cattle native to Iceland. Cattle were first brought to the island during the Settlement of Iceland a thousand years ago. Icelandic cows are an especially colorful breed with a wide variety of colours and marki ..., a breed of cattle * Icelandic chicken, a breed of chicken {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Icelandic Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic abjad, Northwest Semitic Shin (letter), šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Schmidt
Jonas Tveje Bisgaard Schmidt is a Danish self-taught actor and comedian, best known for portraying Dolph the Fascist Hippo. Career Jonas Schmidt has appeared in numerous roles, mostly comedy however. He first gained fame, portraying the nerdy carseller Bruce, in the Danish Toyota commercials. He later gained fame as the extremely nerdy police officer (a play on his real name) on the comedy television series . A character that suffered of many things, including low self-esteem, being ultra geeky and having difficulties with women. A role Jonas Schmidt later has portrayed many times, in different ways. As Dolph, the insane fascist hippo on Wulffmorgenthaler, Jonas Schmidt became a national celebrity. In 2005, Dolph was one of the most popular figures with the youth in Denmark. Dolph looked cute, like a moomin, but he used swear words, killed people, and was extremely racist and hateful. The character was designed, to make fun of people with racist opinions. Jonas Schmidt al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Bro
Nicolas Bro (born 16 March 1972) is a Danish actor born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Background Bro grew up in a family of actors; his mother is Danish actress Helle Hertz and father is the actor Christoffer Bro. His brother Anders Peter Bro is an actor and his sister Laura Bro is an actress. His two aunts Vigga Bro and Lone Hertz are actresses too. He graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1998. Career highlights He plays at Copenhagen's The Royal Theatre. In the ''Offscreen'' movie directed by Christoffer Boe he acted as an actor and cinematographer at the same time. He appeared in a supporting role as Justice Minister Thomas Buch in series 2 of the Danish TV drama '' The Killing'' and as Council President D. G. Monrad in the Danish TV period drama ''1864''. He also appeared as Freddie Holst in the 3rd season of Swedish-Danish series ''The Bridge''. Awards In 2005 he was awarded the Natsvaerme Award for young Danish talent at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
