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

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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

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. 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 ...

in 2016.

Career

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in the

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's performance of ''

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'' in the

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. In 2020, Aldís appeared in the

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's Icelandic original series '' Katla,'' directed by

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. In 2021 it was announced that she had been cast as the lead actress of the TV series '' Black Sands,'' directed by

Baldvin Zophoníasson Baldvin Zophoníasson, or Baldvin Z, is an Icelandic film and television director, writer, and producer. He was born in 1978 in Akureyri. He is best known for his films ''Jitters'', ''Life in a Fishbowl'', '' Let Me Fall'', and the television s ...

, where she plays the character of ''Aníta''. In 2025, she appears as the lead character Ryn in the video game '' Echoes of the End''.

Recognition

On the

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in 2019, Aldís was named Reykjavík's Lady of the Mountain.

Filmography

Films

TV shows

Video games

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Aldís Amah 1991 births Living people Icelandic actresses