Name
Benedikt Erlingsson
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1969-05-31 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Reykjavik, Iceland
Biography
Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969; Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.
Known For
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When the light breaks on a long summer's day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, ...
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The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The tro...
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Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk ev...
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A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and...
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Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan ...
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Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from Am...
- 2006 The Boss of It All as Interpreter
- 2002 Memphis
- 2008 The Nail
- 2007 Rattlesnakes
- 2006 She Talks Icelandic
- 2003 Njalssaga
- 2001 The Seagull's Laughter as Hilli
- 2011 Volcano as Pálmi
- 2008 The Higher Force as Snati
- 2009 Circledrawers as Mozart
- 2002 The Lost Little Caterpillar as Narrator
- 2011 Polite People as Þorgeir
- 2011 The Viking Sagas as Himself
- 2024 Touch as Dr. Stefánsson
- 1998 The Dance as Hólófernes
- 2016 Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe as Halldor Laxness
- 2021 Hver drap Friðrik Dór? as Bróðir Símon
- 1998 Doomsday
- 2007 Parents as Police man
- 2016 Áramótaskaup: 2016
- 2024 When the Light Breaks
- 2018 Áramótaskaup: 2018
- 2011 World's End ( 9 episodes ) as Búi
- 2001 My Life as Bent ( 10 episodes ) as Haraldur, Linettes kæreste
- 2021 Blackport ( 8 episodes ) as Steingrímur
- 1997 Fóstbræður ( 7 episodes )
- 2004 The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey ( 1 episode ) as Flykaptajn
- 2025 The Danish Woman ( 6 episodes ) as Balding Thug
- 2026 Góðir Íslendingar ( 1 episode ) as Guest Star
