Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Birthday: 1969-01-24

Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Iceland

Biography: Hilmir Snær Guðnason (born 24 January 1969, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor. He is famous in his native country and has appeared in both film and on stage. In 2000 he was named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion. Hilmir graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994. He has played in a number of plays and musicals. He is married to Bryndís Jónsdóttir and has two daughters born in 1995 and 2009. He is best known for his roles in the films "101 Reykjavík" (2000), "The Sea" (2002), "White Night Wedding" (2008) & "Lamb" (2021). Three-time winner of the highest national Icelandic film and TV award - "EDDA" (also nominated 3 times).

Movies

Erbsen auf halb 6
Erbsen auf halb 6

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The li...

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Angels of the Universe
Angels of the Universe

The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, t...

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101 Reykjavik
101 Reykjavik

Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and s...

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Crossroads
Crossroads

Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually ta...

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Flying Blind
Flying Blind

One day a heavy smoker finally quits his habit exactly when the clock hits noon. After years of thin...

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Kalt Borð
Kalt Borð

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When Dreams Come True
When Dreams Come True

The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the mo...

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Blueprint
Blueprint

The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-fa...

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The Nail
The Nail

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the bord...

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Njalssaga
Njalssaga

TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga. The first part of Njálssaga...

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Thicker Than Water
Thicker Than Water

Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 ye...

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Frozen Paradise
Frozen Paradise

A filmmaker joins a group of expert kayakers on a kayaking trip in the ice filled fiords of East Gre...

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White Night Wedding
White Night Wedding

Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex...

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The Sea
The Sea

Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing villa...

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The Swan
The Swan

When young Sól is sent to live with her distant countryside relatives for a summer, she becomes enta...

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Our Own Oslo
Our Own Oslo

The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly di...

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Cruelty
Cruelty

Two girls disappear from a playground and the two best detectives in the police force try to solve t...

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Cold Trail
Cold Trail

After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover wh...

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Guy X
Guy X

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base....

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Anna
Anna

A rare syndrome keeps Anna in a world of isolation. Desperate for human contact, she attempts to bre...

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The Very Last Fishing Trip
The Very Last Fishing Trip

A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcome...

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The Seagull's Laughter
The Seagull's Laughter

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a w...

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The Higher Force
The Higher Force

Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to beco...

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The Quiet Storm
The Quiet Storm

A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new...

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Circledrawers
Circledrawers

Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels li...

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Stormland
Stormland

The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland...

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Rust
Rust

After 15 years Pétur returns to Baddi's auto garage that is still located at the end of the world. B...

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La Légende du Cavalier Fantôme
La Légende du Cavalier Fantôme

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Witchcraft
Witchcraft

The young and fanatical Jon is appointed pastor to a remote church in 15th century Iceland. As is cu...

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Polite People
Polite People

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know ...

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Ferox
Ferox

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from ...

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Brave Men's Blood
Brave Men's Blood

The head of the Reykjavík police department's internal affairs unit decides to use his investigation...

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Spooks and Spirits
Spooks and Spirits

Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfr...

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Grand Finale
Grand Finale

A chamber orchestra is working out of a rundown theatre in Reykjavik. Financial hardship places a gr...

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Wild Game
Wild Game

At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones...

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In Front of Others
In Front of Others

Hubert is a shy and introverted graphic designer who hasn't been too successful when approaching wom...

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Agnes
Agnes

In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life...

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The Biggest Rescue
The Biggest Rescue

Friends Sveppi and Villi discover that an old nemesis has built a doomsday machine that can trigger ...

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Woman at War
Woman at War

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything t...

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Fullir vasar
Fullir vasar

The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland'...

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A White, White Day
A White, White Day

In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an af...

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The Last Fishing Trip
The Last Fishing Trip

Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really h...

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On Top Down Under
On Top Down Under

On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to...

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Lamb
Lamb

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover...

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Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike
Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike

Jóhann is a thirty year old guesthouse owner in downtown Reykjavík who has isolated himself socially...

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Doomsday
Doomsday

Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newb...

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Dawn
Dawn

A father and his child wake up from a bad dream....

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Mamma Gógó
Mamma Gógó

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and...

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Alma
Alma

After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war...

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House For Sale
House For Sale

A real estate agent struggles to sell his own house....

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Divine Remedy
Divine Remedy

Four priests head to Rioja, Spain, to find a better quality mass wine than has ever been available i...

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