Ásdís Thoroddsen (born 26 February 1959) is an Icelandic

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, producer,

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, and

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Biography

Thoroddsen was born on 26 February 1959 in

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, Iceland. She started her career in film as an assistant on the set of an adaptation of

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's novel ''Le Paradis'' for the German channel NDR in 1979. After working at the

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from 1979 to 1981, she studied theater in

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. In 1983, she starred in the film ''Skilaboð til Söndru'' by Kristin Pálsdóttir. The same year, she joined the German Academy of Film and Television Berlin. She shot her first feature film in 1992, ''Ingaló'', the story of a rebellious girl and her brother in an Icelandic fishing village. The film was selected for the

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at the

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. She won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993

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and Solveig Arnarsdóttir, the actress in ''Ingaló'', won the Best Actress Award. The film is also selected for the festival of New Directors and New Films at the

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and

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in 1993. Ásdís Thoroddsen writes scripts for her own films. She also writes for radio and stage, as well as a radio play, ''Ástand'', which was selected for the Prix Europa in 2011. She founded the company Gjóla, which produces films and plays. In September 2016, Sæmundur published the first novel on Ásdís Thoroddsen, ''Utan þjónustusvæðis – krónika''.

Filmography

Director

* ''Ingaló'' (1992) * ''Draumadísir'' (1995) * ''Heimsljós'' (short) (2003) * ''Á þjóðvegi 48'' (short) (2006) * ''Súðbyrðingur – saga báts'' (documentary) (2010) * ''Veðrabrigði'' (documentary) (2015)

Acting

* ''Skilaboð til Söndru'' (1983) * ''Nói albínói'' (2003)

References

External links

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