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name: "Eagle Egilsson"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "31 August 1966"
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# Eagle Egilsson

Director. Born 31 August 1966 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 31 August 1966, Reykjavík, Iceland
- **Also known as:** Egill 'Eagle' Egilson, Egill Örn Egilsson , Egill Ørn Egilsson 

## Biography

Eagle Egilsson, born Egill Örn Egilsson on 31 August 1966 in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a television director and cinematographer. He studied filmmaking at Columbia College Hollywood in Los Angeles.

As a cinematographer, he worked on *The Wire* and *CSI: Miami*, where he was also a co-producer, as well as *Dark Blue*. He has directed episodes of numerous series, including *Fringe* (2008), *Nikita*, *Gotham*, *Lucifer*, *Arrow*, *The Blacklist*, *Hawaii Five-0* and *S.W.A.T.*.

Egilsson won an American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Award in the television category in 2010 for the *Dark Blue* episode 'Venice Kings', which he also directed. Later that year he became the first Icelander admitted to the ASC.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fringe* (2008), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md)

## Also known for

- *Lucifer* (2016), Director
- *Arrow* (2012), Director
- *Gotham* (2014), Director
- *The Blacklist* (2013), Director
- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), Director
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Director
- *S.W.A.T.* (2017), Director
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), Director

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