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name: "Gísli Örn Garðarsson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gisli-orn-gararsson"
fi1m_id: "gisli-orn-gararsson"
imdb_id: "nm1458629"
tmdb_id: 587354
wikidata_id: "Q15929501"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 December 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T11:59:06.347411+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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# Gísli Örn Garðarsson

## Identity

Gísli Örn Garðarsson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gisli-orn-gararsson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gisli-orn-gararsson
- **IMDb ID:** nm1458629
- **TMDB ID:** 587354
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15929501
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%ADsli_%C3%96rn_Gar%C3%B0arsson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15929501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1458629/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587354

Actor. Born 15 December 1973 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 December 1973, Reykjavík, Iceland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%ADsli_%C3%96rn_Gar%C3%B0arsson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15929501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1458629/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587354

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time*](https://film.one/film/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.md) (56)

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## Biography

Gísli Örn Garðarsson (born 15 December 1973) is an Icelandic actor and director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2001 and is one of the thirteen founding members of Vesturport, a Reykjavík-based theatre and film company. Before turning to acting, he competed internationally as a gymnast.

He is known for his role as the Hassansin Leader in the film *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), as Vidar Jutul in the Netflix series *Ragnarok* (2020–2023), and for appearances in *Against the Ice* (2022) and *Beowulf & Grendel* (2005). He also wrote, produced and acted in the Icelandic film *Children* (2006).

In 2007 he received the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2010 he was awarded the Order of the Falcon, Knight's Cross, by the President of Iceland. His partner is the actress and Vesturport co-founder Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), Fi1m 56, as Hassansin Leader — [page](https://film.one/film/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Greenland 2: Migration* (2026), as Lars
- *Everybody Loves Horses* (2025), series, as Valdi
- *Krautz in Seltjarnarnes* (2025), series, Actor
- *Wild Game* (2023), as Pétur
- *Against the Ice* (2022), as Jørgensen
- *Blackport* (2021), series, as Jón · Director, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *For Life* (2020), series, as Overlege Alex Lind
- *Grandma Hófí* (2020), Actor
- *Ragnarok* (2020), series, as Vidar Jutul
- *Exit* (2019), series, Director
- *Vultures* (2018), as Erik
- *Prisoners* (2017), series, as Ásbjörn
- *The Oath* (2016), as Óttar
- *Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands* (2016), series, as Breca
- *Graves & Bones* (2014), as Sigurður
- *Spooks and Spirits* (2013), as Ingi Brjánn
- *Tumult* (2012), as Dark Son
- *Korríró* (2011), Actor
- *City State* (2011), as Jói
- *Undercurrent* (2010), as Benni · Writer, Producer
- *Jitters* (2010), as Haraldur
- *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), as Hassansin Leader — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.md)
- *King's Road* (2010), as Júníor
- *Country Wedding* (2008), as Grjóni
- *Two Birds* (2008), Actor
- *Parents* (2007), Producer
- *Children* (2006), as Garðar/Georg
- *Beowulf & Grendel* (2005), as Erik
- *Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)* (2004), as Ethan
- *Caramels* (2003), Actor
- *Dramarama* (2001), as Darri
- *Terra Infirma*, as Su
- *Woyzeck*, Director, Translator
- *Kill the Poet*, as Kadett

## Gallery

- ![Gísli Örn Garðarsson](https://film.one/media/person/5702183/gallery-cdbcdf43db11.jpg) Gísli Örn Garðarsson — Europa Creativa Desk – MEDIA Catalunya, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/G%C3%ADsli_Orn_Gardarsson_on_Media_Catalunya.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gísli Örn Garðarsson](https://film.one/media/person/5702183/gallery-860ea0ea4048.jpg) Gísli Örn Garðarsson — Image via TMDB

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