---
name: "Orto Ignatiussen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/orto-ignatiussen"
fi1m_id: "orto-ignatiussen"
imdb_id: "nm1241511"
tmdb_id: 1223440
wikidata_id: "Q86458106"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 February 1959"
died: "4 March 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:51:33.825676+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."
---

# Orto Ignatiussen

## Identity

Orto Ignatiussen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/orto-ignatiussen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** orto-ignatiussen
- **IMDb ID:** nm1241511
- **TMDB ID:** 1223440
- **Wikidata ID:** Q86458106
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86458106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223440

Actor. Born 19 February 1959 in Skjoldungen. Died 4 March 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 February 1959, Skjoldungen
- **Died:** 4 March 2019
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86458106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1241511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223440

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Gravity*](https://film.one/film/gravity.md) (85)

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## Biography

Orto Ignatiussen was a Greenlandic actor and theatre director. Born in Skjoldungen in 1959, he trained at the Tuukkaq Theatre in Denmark and later founded the children's and youth theatre Qinngorniit in Greenland, receiving the Danish Children's Affairs Award in 2006.

He appeared in the films *Ikíngut* (2000) and *Endless Night* (2015), and worked as a production assistant on *Eight Below* (2006). He is best known internationally for voicing the character Aningaaq in *Gravity* (2013) and playing the role in the companion short film *Aningaaq* (2013).

Ignatiussen died in Tasiilaq in 2019.

*Sources: imdb.com, gravitymovie.fandom.com, npr.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gravity* (2013), Fi1m 85, as Aningaaq (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Endless Night* (2015), as Ninq
- *Aningaaq* (2013), as Aningaaq
- *Gravity* (2013), as Aningaaq (voice) — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/gravity.md)
- *Ikingut* (2000), as Kajut

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