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Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Acting

Born March 3, 1973 · Connecticut, USA

Also known as Olafur Darri Olafsson · Olafur Darri · オラフル・ダッリ・オラフソン

Biography

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson has lived in Iceland for most of his life and works full time as an actor. He does a lot of theatre work as well as films and he is one of the founders of the Vesturport theatre company, which has performed around the world.

Awards & recognition

  • Edda AwardBest Leading Actor or Actress · 2013
  • Edda AwardBest Leading Actor or Actress · 2011
  • Nordic Council Film Prize

Filmography46 titles

Kiff

2023as Centaur Claus (voice)

Severance

2022as Mr. Drummond

New Amsterdam

2018as Burl

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019as urVa (The Archer) (voice)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

2019as Ragnar the Rock (voice)

Vikings: The Rise & Fall

as Narrator (voice)

Your Friends & Neighbors

2025as Christian Tómasson

Twilight of the Gods

2024as Tiwaz (voice)

Reykjavík Fusion

2025as Jónas

NOS4A2

2019as Bing Partridge

Quarry

2016as Credence Mason

Trapped

2015as Andri Ólafsson

Boat Story

2023as Narrator (voice)

Somebody Somewhere

2022as Víglundur 'Iceland' Hjartarson

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

2013as Helicopter Pilot

Beautiful Beings

2022as Svenni

The Amazing Race

2001as Self

La Palma

2024as Haukur

The Tourist

2022as Billy Nixon

The Widow

2019as Ariel Helgason

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018as Skender

Lady Dynamite

2016as Scott Marvel Casssidy

Ørnen

2004as Computertyven

Emerald City

2017as Ojo

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

2020as Neils Brongus

The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018as Finnish Backpacker

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

2025as Travis Davies

Murder Mystery

2019as Sergei

The BFG

2016as Maidmasher / Cook

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014as Jonas Loogan

Contraband

2012as Olaf

The Deep

2012as Gulli (Guðlaugs Friðþjófssonar)

Reykjavik-Rotterdam

2008as Elvar

Operation Napoleon

2023as Einar

End of Sentence

2019as Stone

The Meg

2018as The Wall

White Night Wedding

2008as Sjonni

The Last Witch Hunter

2015as Belial

Let Me Fall

2018as Customer at the Beginning

The Vanishing

2018as Boor

Beowulf & Grendel

2005as Unferth

The Minister

2020as Benedikt

The White King

2016as Pickaxe

Patient Seven

2016as Alley Zombie (segment: "Undying Love")

Zoolander 2

2016as Hasidic Man

XL

2013as Leifur Sigurðarson