Sigurður Sigurjónsson

Acting

Sigurður Sigurjónsson

Born

1955-07-06 (71)

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

An Icelandic actor, comedian and screenwriter, best known as a member of the comedy group Spaugstofan. He has starred in a number of films and television series since the late 1970s, as well as acting in the National Theatre of Iceland. He is famous for his recurring characters in the Spaugstofan television series, including Ragnar Reykás and Kristján Ólafsson. Sigurður has starred in many seasons of the annual television special Áramótaskaupið. He is also one of the leading Icelandic voice actors and has dubbed numerous animated features. In March 2015, Sigurjóns appeared in the music video for "Crystals," the lead single from the Of Monsters and Men album "Beneath the Skin."

Known for

Black Mirror poster
8.3

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Black Mirror

2011

Rams poster
7.0

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

Rams

2015

The Fires poster
6.1

Top volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir faces two disasters at once: a volcanic eruption that threatens the safety of the capital city and a love affair that could destroy her marriage.

The Fires

2025

World's End poster
9.0

Set in 1992, Heimsendir is an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as ‘World’s End’ is a last resort for many mental patients, many of whom consider it a home. Elementary school teacher, Einar, is committed against his will after a severe nervous breakdown and is critical about how things are run at the hospital and before long he has most of the patients on his side, rooting for change. Einar, along with the other patients, stages a revolution and takes over the hospital, declaring its a state within a state, a Utopia for the mentally ill.

World's End

2011

Under the Tree poster
6.6

When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Under the Tree

2017

A White, White Day poster
6.1

In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

A White, White Day

2019

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

The Fires poster
6.1

Top volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir faces two disasters at once: a volcanic eruption that threatens the safety of the capital city and a love affair that could destroy her marriage.

The Fires

2025

Belle poster
5.5

A young farmgirl, Belle, with a history of being trapped in toxic relationships, becomes trapped by the Beast who promises to cure her sick father with a rose if she stays with him.

Belle

2023

Yes-People poster
5.7

Six people. Living in one building but following different paths. Each gets through the day in their own way – and with their own voice.

Yes-People

2020

Divine Remedy poster
5.0

Four priests head to Rioja, Spain, to find a better quality mass wine than has ever been available in Iceland. They are so busy with their work and tasting that they miss the miracles happening all around them.

Divine Remedy

2024

Áramótaskaup 2021 poster
6.0

Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.

Áramótaskaup 2021

2021

Epilogues poster
NR

An old man comes home with the ashes of his dead wife in an urn. As he waits for the kettle to boil, the relentless hissing of boiling water brings to mind memories. There is nothing ahead for the old man, only lack of purpose, sense of loss and loneliness. He embarks on a journey.

Epilogues

2024

The Very Last Fishing Trip poster
4.5

A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.

The Very Last Fishing Trip

2022

Dalía poster
NR

A six year old boy of divorced parents spends a weekend at his dad's farm. Not knowing how to connect with his son, the father goes about his day working and treating the boy as any other farmhand. When they come across the mother's seriously wounded horse they finally find a way to connect as they carefully go through the process of putting the horse out of its misery.

Dalía

2022

2010s · 16 titles

Rams poster
7.0

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

Rams

2015

Under the Tree poster
6.6

When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Under the Tree

2017

A White, White Day poster
6.1

In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

A White, White Day

2019

Áramótaskaup: 2018 poster
NR

Áramótaskaup: 2018 is an Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2018

2018

Polite People poster
6.2

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

Polite People

2011

The County poster
6.2

A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.

The County

2019

Brave Men's Blood poster
5.0

The head of the Reykjavík police department's internal affairs unit decides to use his investigation into a corrupt police lieutenant to take down a major criminal organization.

Brave Men's Blood

2014

City State poster
5.3

A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.

City State

2011

King's Road poster
5.2

After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.

King's Road

2010

Afinn poster
NR

A recording of the City Theatre's production of Afanum. How are grandfathers today? They are in their prime, in good standing, have raised their children and can finally enjoy life after the hard work of earning a living. Many of them have a Harley Davidson in the garage and listen to the Beatles, but they all have one thing in common: falling asleep to the sound of the Spotlight at night. But grandfathers' tasks today can be varied and complex: double-sided glasses, complex remote controls, Viagra pills and, last but not least, grandchildren.

Afinn

2012

Harry & Heimir: Murders Come First poster
6.8

The beautiful Diana Klein seeks the help of private eyes Harry and Heimir, to locate her father, a weather researcher staying in the Icelandic highlands, who seems to have disappeared. Harry and Heimir take on the job and are successful in thwarting a devious conspiracy of Danish amateur skiers who are trying to steal the Icelandic highlands for export out of the country.

Harry & Heimir: Murders Come First

2014

The Falcons poster
5.0

Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. Ten-year-old Jón and his team go to compete, but he will have to grow up faster than expected, both on and off the pitch.

The Falcons

2018

Spooks and Spirits poster
2.5

Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfriend, Ingi Brjann. The young couples are going to sell the house of the dead but Ofeigur is not very happy with that and tries to convince them not to do it. The intervention of the ghost is so irritating that Ingi Brjann tries to get him away by using methods from an old magic book.

Spooks and Spirits

2013

The Grandad poster
6.3

Gudjón has led a safe life. Suddenly faced with retirement and growing older, he is forced to take a good, hard look at his marriage. A dramatic but often lighthearted story about life at a crossroads and the meaning of it all.

The Grandad

2014

Birta Bjartur Blær poster
NR

A transgender Asian Icelandic teenager is stuck on an island where nothing ever happens and nobody seems to care. We catch a glimpse of their life as an outcast in a dead-end job, desperate for something interesting to do. Anything at all.

Birta Bjartur Blær

2017

Munda poster
NR

Munda is a 70 year old priest who has to find herself again once she's suddenly made to renounce her priesthood.

Munda

2017

2000s · 7 titles

Country Wedding poster
6.6

A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.

Country Wedding

2008

A Man Like Me poster
7.0

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.

A Man Like Me

2002

The Higher Force poster
5.6

Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.

The Higher Force

2008

Stella Runs for Office poster
5.3

Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.

Stella Runs for Office

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marshmallow

2006

Fencing poster
NR

The film follows a day in the life of a troubled elderly gentleman facing fear of death and visions of his late father who he gets mixed up with his favorite figure of fiction, Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. He has visions of rubber shoes in the sewer where he works leading him to think back on his childhood and the origins of his bizarre work of art for which he has sacrificed even his marriage. His masterpiece is a bizarre fence along a black beach which he tends to with tenderness but dreads to complete.

Fencing

2007

Viktor poster
NR

Victor is the story of a conscientious if somewhat withdrawn traffic warden who through a series of mishaps finally finds his place in life. While the setting is unusual the film addresses a wide range of emotions and morality; Love, deceit, frustrated longings and human dignity. Victor, the eponymous hero of the film, is torn between his desire for the supermodel Kate le Font and the genuine affection of his co-worker Herdis. Victor's story comes to a head when a crooked traffic warden accuses him to hide his own crimes. With Herdis' help our hero narrowly avoids disaster. In a surprisingly complex plot, the film illustrates the dangers of repressed emotions, the liberating power of love and the ultimate triumph of good. All this takes place within the microcosmic context of the traffic warden's world which becomes a reflection of all human drama.

Viktor

2000

1990s · 6 titles

Movie Days poster
6.1

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.

Movie Days

1994

The Sky Palace poster
4.7

Emily is a young boy that dreams about owning a dog and he starts working so he can save up to buy one. Meanwhile his family are dealing with money problems.

The Sky Palace

1994

Devil's Island poster
6.6

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.

Devil's Island

1996

Robbie Rotten in LazyTown poster
10.0

Íþróttaálfurinn has managed to change the villagers' negative attitude towards sports, healthy food and all diligence. But when he leaves and the villagers have to manage on their own, they turn out to be very unstable and easily influenced by the criminal Glanni Glæpur, who turns up disguised as a very rich man. In fact, he has stolen the president's car and intends to corrupt the villagers so that he can sell them un-wholesome powder-food and become mayor of the town.

Robbie Rotten in LazyTown

1999

Privacy poster
8.0

Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his family. A gallery of humorous, off-beat characters is revealed, who's seemingly ordinary lives conceal bitter divorces, passionate second marriages, vengeance, luck and misfortune, crime and punishment.

Privacy

1995

Rust poster
9.0

After 15 years Pétur returns to Baddi's auto garage that is still located at the end of the world. Baddi lives there with his two children and worker. 15 years before terrible events occurred at the garage that forced Pétur to leave.

Rust

1990

1980s · 10 titles

In the Shadow of the Raven poster
6.2

Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...

In the Shadow of the Raven

1988

Pastoral Life poster
7.2

This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.

Pastoral Life

1984

Under the Glacier poster
6.7

Our hero is Umbi (an acronym for emissary of the bishop), sent by him to undertake an important investigation at Snæfell-glacier. In particular he is to look into the conduct and behavior of Jón Prímus, the old pastor at Snæfell. Fantastic rumors are rife: amongst other things it is said that a corpse is lodged in the glacier! Armed with his tape recorder and notebook, Umbi embarks upon his mission. He tries to question the weird locals, a weird lot, but gets evasive answers. Slowly he is dragged into a quagmire of strange happenings and his efforts to understand only make him confused. If at the beginning he is a chipper, a mere device, by the end of the story he is inextricably involved, a committed participant in the bizarre events.

Under the Glacier

1989

The Atomic Station poster
3.8

The film tells the story of a young farmgirl moving to Reykjavík after the second world war, and her attempts to adapt to the city life.

The Atomic Station

1984

A Policeman's Life poster
6.4

Löggulíf is the third movie in the "-life" trilogy of knockabout comedies about the cheeky lads Thor and Danni. The others are New Life and Pastoral Life.

A Policeman's Life

1985

Kusk á hvítflibbanum poster
NR

A man's struggle fighting the system he lives in.

Kusk á hvítflibbanum

1981

The Icelandic Shock Station poster
6.5

The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.

The Icelandic Shock Station

1986

Land and Sons poster
6.7

An Icelandic farmer's son decides to leave his farm, fiance, friends, dog and horse, during the depression before World War II, to start a new life somewhere else.

Land and Sons

1980

Reykjavik, Reykjavik poster
NR

A dramatized documentary about the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík. The city is seen through the eyes of a visitor, a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent, who marvels at the many charms and peculiarities of Reykjavík. The film was made on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city.

Reykjavik, Reykjavik

1986

No artwork available
6.0

A Swedish road movie about two mismatched women. The road leads to strange meetings and bizarre events and episodes.

Second Dance

1983

Series credits

Black Mirror poster
8.3

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Black Mirror

2011

World's End poster
9.0

Set in 1992, Heimsendir is an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as ‘World’s End’ is a last resort for many mental patients, many of whom consider it a home. Elementary school teacher, Einar, is committed against his will after a severe nervous breakdown and is critical about how things are run at the hospital and before long he has most of the patients on his side, rooting for change. Einar, along with the other patients, stages a revolution and takes over the hospital, declaring its a state within a state, a Utopia for the mentally ill.

World's End

2011

Jól á leið til jarðar poster
NR

Jól á leið til jarðar is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1994. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised advent calendars. It was created by Sigurður Örn Brynjólfsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, and was the first stop-motion advent calendar on Icelandic television. The show was produced at Nukufilm studios in Tallinn, Estonia. The show was voiced by actors and comedians Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Laddi and Örn Árnason. Jól á leið til jarðar was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 1999 and 2007. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series.

Jól á leið til jarðar

1994

The Flatey Enigma poster
6.6

Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.

The Flatey Enigma

2018

Behind the camera