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Gísli Örn Garðarsson (born 15 December 1973) is an Icelandic actor and director. He is one of the founders of Vesturport, a theatre and film company based in Reykjavík, and is also sometimes a scriptwriter and producer. Before focusing on acting, he competed internationally as a gymnast.
Gísli Örn Garðarsson. Actor: The Oath. Gisli Gardarsson, born in Iceland but grew up in Norway where he started his acting career. He is now more or less based in the UK. He finished a four year acting degree at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, graduating in the year 2001.
Gísli Örn Garðarsson. Actor: Verbúðin. Gisli Gardarsson, born in Iceland but grew up in Norway where he started his acting career. He is now more or less based in the UK. He finished a four year acting degree at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, graduating in the year 2001.
Actor – Director – Writer. Gisli trained as an actor at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. The school has a 4 year acting course. He works as an actor and director and has adapted and produced various productions. Work includes: DIRECTOR: Metamorphosis (also adaptation) Love the Musical (also writer) Kommunan (also adaptation),
Blackport: Created by Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Mikael Torfason. With Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir. Childhood friends restore an old trawler and build a fishing empire in Iceland.
Gísli Örn Garðarsson is known as an Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, and Creator. Some of his work includes Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ragnarok, Against the Ice, Vultures, The Oath, Jitters, Beowulf & Grendel, and Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.
Gísli Örn Garðarsson, one of the creators, writers, directors and stars of Icelandic drama Blackport, speaks to DQ about why he wanted to dramatise the real-life impact of the country’s fishing quotas in the 1980s.
