Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir

Acting

Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir

Born 1974-02-25 · Reykjavik, Iceland

Acting credits

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga poster
6.4

Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

2020

Áramótaskaup: 2014 poster
6.0

Áramótaskaup: 2014 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2014

2014

Reverse poster
6.0

Two childhood friends decide to drive around Iceland backward to raise money for charity. Soon after they set out, however, they discover that perhaps this wasn't the best idea. Nothing goes as planned - in fact, almost everything goes wrong.

Reverse

2015

Heartstone poster
7.2

A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

Heartstone

2016

The Girl in the Café poster
7.0

Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.

The Girl in the Café

2005

Korríró poster
NR

The tale of Goldilocks is sometimes viewed as a cautionary tale that imparts a lesson about the hazards of wandering off and exploring unknown territory. The point about safety and shelter. But in its essence it was a tale about an intruder who could not control herself when encountering the possessions of others.

Korríró

2011

Dramarama poster
6.6

Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?

Dramarama

2001

No artwork available
NR

EIN looks at self-examination, happiness and societal expectations through the eyes of a woman who questions the decisions she has made throughout her life.

Ein

2024

Knowledgy poster
NR

When a naive Icelandic couple become entangled in an American cult, their lodger, Michael, decides to document events for his film school project. The cult leading couple arrive from Los Angeles to initiate the naive Icelanders and soon the comical becomes macabre.

Knowledgy

2010

Woyzeck poster
NR

The excitedly physical staging of Georg Buchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt him. A hostage to fortune, class and his sadistic superiors, Woyzeck’s fate is played out in a series of nightmarish encounters. He stumbles through a world of macabre carnival, sexual betrayal and cruel oppression, pursued by the demons of his own paranoid fantasies. Pushed beyond breaking point, Woyzeck’s last love- crazed act destroys the only thing he truly cares for.

Woyzeck

The Sea poster
6.3

Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.

The Sea

2002

Wild Game poster
6.0

At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide

Wild Game

2023

Children poster
6.1

Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she is oblivious to what’s going on with her twelve year old Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund’s only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his fourties who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marinó starts to lose grip on reality.

Children

2006

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

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

Graves & Bones poster
4.7

Gunnar and Sonja are a married couple that had it all, money,love and a beautful daughter. But after the death of there daughter their world falls apart. To make things worse Gunnar is in the middle of a trial, being charged with illegal sales and purchase on behave of his company. When Gunnar and Sonja inherit Gunnar's niece Perla, the couple take on a weekend journey to pick up Perla, who is staying at a remote house in the Icelandic country side where she lost both of her parents in a horrible way. When Gunnar and Sonja arrive at the house strange things start to happen.

Graves & Bones

2014

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

Artun poster
5.9

A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. One day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for.

Artun

2014

No artwork available
NR

Set during WWII when artists were being blacklisted in Communist witch-hunts, follows the star-crossed love story of a young poet and a young female painter from a wealthy family.

Kill the Poet

Small Things poster
NR

When Peter is called to work on his day-off a chain of events starts to unravel that effect him and the people around him.

Small Things

2011

Undercurrent poster
7.1

The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid crew members commits suicide. To fill his gap, a young woman takes his place on the next tour and gradually the fragile balance is tipped, and personal issues that should be left on the mainland cause dangerous friction between the crew members

Undercurrent

2010

World's End poster
5.5

Einar, a charismatic history teacher is committed to a remote mental asylum in Iceland. During the bank holiday weekend he initiates an uprising that transforms into a proper revolution where the lunatics literally take over the asylum.

World's End

2011

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

No artwork available
10.0

2002's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2002

2002

Behind the camera