Icelandic actor (born 1969)
Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director .[1] 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 .
Film and television career
Benedikt was a part of the locally renowned[2] sketch comedy television show Fóstbræður .[2] [3]
He played the interpreter in Lars von Triers 2006 film The Boss of It All , about an owner of an IT company that wishes to sell it after having pretended for years that the real boss lives abroad and communicates with the staff only by e-mail.
Benedikt's first feature-length film as director was Of Horses and Men in 2013. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards ,[4] [5] but it was not nominated. The film won the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize . It also won the audience award at the 2014 Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway.[6]
His second film, Woman at War , an eco-terrorism drama,[7] premiered in 2018.[8] It too was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards for its release year , but it was likewise not nominated.[9] [10] [11]
In 2021, Benedikt appeared as Steingrímur Hermannsson in the Icelandic television drama miniseries Blackport .[12]
Theater career
Benedikt has directed four plays for the National Theater, including Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness .
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