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name: "Atli Örvarsson"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 July 1970"
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average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:53:24.603075+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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# Atli Örvarsson

Composer. Born 7 July 1970 in Akureyri, Iceland.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 July 1970, Akureyri, Iceland
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Also known as:** Atli Orvarsson
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atli_%C3%96rvarsson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651414/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72268

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Silo*](https://film.one/tv/silo.md) (75)

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## Biography

Atli Örvarsson is an Icelandic film and television composer, conductor and musician. Born in Akureyri in 1970, he began his career as a member of the Icelandic rock band Sálin hans Jóns míns before studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

He has composed scores for numerous studio films including *Babylon A.D.* (2008), *Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters* (2013), *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), *The Hitman's Bodyguard* (2017) and *The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard* (2021). His television work includes the long-running series *Chicago Fire* (from 2012) and *Chicago P.D.* (from 2014), as well as *Silo* (2023).

Örvarsson won a BAFTA TV Craft Award for his score to *Silo* in 2024 and received an Emmy nomination for the same work. He has also received multiple ASCAP and BMI awards and collaborated with Hans Zimmer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, atliorvarsson.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Silo* (2023), Fi1m 75, Conductor, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/silo.md)
- *Iron Man* (2008), Fi1m 80, Additional Music — [page](https://film.one/film/iron-man.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *Ladies First* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *500 Miles* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *CIA* (2026), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Iris Affair* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Fires* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Rescue at Dongji* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *On Call* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *Silo* (2023), series, Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/silo.md)
- *No Limit* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *FBI: International* (2021), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Dig* (2021), Conductor
- *Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Defending Jacob* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *FBI: Most Wanted* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Jacob's Ladder* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *FBI* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *How It Ends* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Ploey: You Never Fly Alone* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Hitman's Bodyguard* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Edge of Seventeen* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Bilal: A New Breed of Hero* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *In Front of Others* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Chicago Med* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Perfect Guy* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Rams* (2015), Original Music Composer, Associate Producer
- *The Homecoming* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, Original Music Composer
- *A Single Shot* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Colette* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Evidence* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Pension Gang* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The Eagle* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Season of the Witch* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Law & Order: LA* (2010), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Fourth Kind* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Thick as Thieves* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Babylon A.D.* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Iron Man* (2008), Additional Music — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/iron-man.md)
- *Vantage Point* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Dead Above Ground* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Laggó* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Behind Schedule* (1993), as Atli Örvarsson

## Gallery

- ![Atli Orvarsson conducting orchestra 2024](https://film.one/media/person/439863/gallery-3a3482615a65.jpg) Atli Orvarsson conducting orchestra 2024 — Assakarls, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/AtliOrvarsson.jpg/1280px-AtliOrvarsson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Atli Orvarsson conducting orchestra 2024](https://film.one/media/person/439863/gallery-1283adf0306e.jpg) Atli Orvarsson conducting orchestra 2024 — Assakarls, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/AtliOrvarsson_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-AtliOrvarsson_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Atli Örvarsson](https://film.one/media/person/439863/gallery-bc264c1667ad.png) Atli Örvarsson — Assakarls, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Atli_Orvarsson.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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