---
name: "Ugla Hauksdóttir"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ugla-hauksdottir"
fi1m_id: "ugla-hauksdottir"
imdb_id: "nm4671636"
tmdb_id: 1433935
wikidata_id: "Q75101721"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "31 July 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T14:09:35.132233+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."
---

# Ugla Hauksdóttir

## Identity

Ugla Hauksdóttir

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ugla-hauksdottir
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ugla-hauksdottir
- **IMDb ID:** nm4671636
- **TMDB ID:** 1433935
- **Wikidata ID:** Q75101721
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugla_Hauksd%C3%B3ttir, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75101721, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4671636/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1433935

Director. Born 31 July 1989 in Iceland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 31 July 1989, Iceland
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugla_Hauksd%C3%B3ttir, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75101721, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4671636/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1433935

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Trapped*](https://film.one/tv/trapped-2015.md) (81)
- **Disney+:** [*Alien: Earth*](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Ugla Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic film and television director and screenwriter. She studied photography and experimental filmmaking at Cooper Union in New York and earned an MFA in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University.

She began her career with short films including *Salt* (2014), *How Far She Went* (2017) and *Sealskin* (2020). In 2016 she received the Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in the women's category for *How Far She Went* and became the first Icelandic woman to join the Directors Guild of America.

Her television credits include episodes of the Icelandic series *Trapped* (2019), *Hanna* (2020), *Snowfall* (2021), *The Power* (2023) and two episodes of *Alien: Earth* (2025). Her debut feature film, *The Fires* (2025), which she also wrote, premiered in 2025.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Alien: Earth* (2025), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md)
- *Trapped* (2015), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/trapped-2015.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *The Fires* (2025), Writer, Director
- *Alien: Earth* (2025), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md)
- *The Power* (2023), series, Director, Consulting Producer
- *Sealskin* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Hanna* (2019), series, Director
- *Snowfall* (2017), series, Director
- *How Far She Went* (2017), Director, Editor
- *On Meditation* (2016), Editor
- *Trapped* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/trapped-2015.md)
- *Salt* (2014), Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay
- *Noah* (2014), as Other — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/noah.md)
- *Milk and Blood* (2014), Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography
- *Oblivion* (2013), Production Office Assistant
- *Vera* (2011), Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Editor

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