---
name: "Alexander Rybak"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexander-rybak"
fi1m_id: "alexander-rybak"
imdb_id: "nm3043390"
tmdb_id: 1301607
wikidata_id: "Q131259"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "13 May 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T13:20:40.456540+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alexander Rybak

## Identity

Alexander Rybak

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexander-rybak
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alexander-rybak
- **IMDb ID:** nm3043390
- **TMDB ID:** 1301607
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131259
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rybak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131259, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3043390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1301607

Composer. Born 13 May 1986 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR, [now Belarus].

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 13 May 1986, Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR, [now Belarus]
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rybak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131259, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3043390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1301607

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*How to Train Your Dragon 2*](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alexander Rybak is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer, songwriter, violinist, pianist, composer and actor. Born on 13 May 1986 in Minsk, he moved to Norway with his family as a child and trained at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.

Rybak represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, winning with his song 'Fairytale'. He has voiced the character Hiccup in the Norwegian dubs of the How to Train Your Dragon films and wrote and performed the song 'Into a Fantasy' for the soundtrack of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), included in European and Slavic versions. He appeared as himself in the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, alexanderrybak.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *How to Train Your Dragon 2* (2014), Fi1m 74, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *På armlängds avstånd* (2025), series, as En Kändis
- *Terese i kassan* (2023), series, as Alexander Rybak
- *Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga* (2020), as Alexander Rybak
- *How to Train Your Dragon 2* (2014), Music — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2.md)
- *Asbjørn Brekke-show* (2012), series, Actor
- *The Child Wanderers* (2010), as Levi
- *Torsdag kveld fra Nydalen* (2009), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Alexander Rybak](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-be00ba31713b.jpg) Alexander Rybak — Fredrik Arff, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Alexander_Rybak_001.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexander Rybak at LOVE Stockholm 2010](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-5440209b61d7.jpg) Alexander Rybak at LOVE Stockholm 2010 — Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_2010.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-b434d0f03b40.jpg) At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference — Wouter van Vliet, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_20180510_EuroVisionary.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_20180510_EuroVisionary.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-70afe6494b29.jpg) At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference — Wouter van Vliet, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_20180510_EuroVisionary_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_%282%29_20180510_EuroVisionary_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexander Rybak](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-6b9b273dc68c.jpg) Alexander Rybak — Image via TMDB
- ![Alexander Rybak (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-6c73567869d4.jpg) Alexander Rybak (2012) — Vugarİbadov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Alexander_Rybak_%282012%29.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_%282012%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference](https://film.one/media/person/5709197/gallery-4083627679d2.jpg) At the 2018 Semi Final 2 qualifiers press conference — Wouter van Vliet, EuroVisionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Alexander_Rybak_%283%29_20180510_EuroVisionary.jpg/1280px-Alexander_Rybak_%283%29_20180510_EuroVisionary.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009: First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest (won), for *Fairytale*
- Spellemann Award of the year 2009: Spellemann Award of the year (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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