Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir

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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Sara.

Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir (born December 1976)[1] is an Icelandic actress. She has had major roles in a number of Icelandic films and TV series, and in 2013 won the Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for Pressa [is].

Early life and education

Sara was born and grew up on the family farm in Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur.[1][2][3] She attended Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti from the age of 16, in the media track,[1] and after a half year in France studying French, enrolled at the University of Iceland to study psychology.[4] After her first film role, she returned to France, living in Paris, and then studied acting in Iceland at the Iceland University of the Arts,[2][5] graduating in 2005.[1]

Career

Her first acting role was as the female lead, Þurildur, in Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's Witchcraft [is] (2000), for which she auditioned successfully in 1997 when she was 19 and in her first year of university, with no training in acting;[1][2][4] she later told an interviewer she had been too shy to join her school's drama club.[3] Her performance won a Best Actress award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.[1][3][6]

While studying acting, she had supporting roles in two further films, Kaldaljós and the short Hver er Barði? (Who is Bardi?) (both 2004).[7] On graduation, she was offered a place in a theatre company in Akureyri, but took time off to have her first child. She resumed work with an independent theatre company, and in following years worked in a variety of acting jobs, including for the Reykjavík City Theatre, while also working as a flight attendant for Flugfélag Íslands.[1][5]

In 2007 Sara had a supporting role in the TV series Næturvaktin;[2][7][8] her breakthrough role was as the journalist Lára in the TV series Pressa,[9][10] beginning in December the same year. Pressa was very successful, and in 2013 she won the Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for the third season.[1][11]

Caring for her children during her daughter's illness caused a three-year hiatus in her career.[1] Her work since then has included, in film, leading parts in Óskar Þór Axelsson's Ég man þig (2017), based on a novel by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,[1][12][13] the 2019 Swedish-Icelandic co-production Pity the Lovers,[14] and Marteinn Þórsson [is]'s Þorpið í bakgarðinum (Backyard Village, 2021),[15] and a supporting role in Hvítur, hvítur dagur (2019).[16][17] On TV, she appeared in the 2016 comedy series Borgarstjórinn [is] (The Mayor)[18] and had a supporting role in the 2017 series Stella Blómkvist, which became a major role in the 2021 season.[7][19]

Personal life

Sara has a daughter and a son. She did not attend the Edda Awards ceremony when she won because her son was a newborn.[1][20]

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Ásdís Ásgeirsdóttir (24 January 2016). "Sara fékk eldskírnina hjá Hrafni". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
  2. ^ a b c d Marta María Jónasdóttir (14 December 2007). "Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir leikkona: úr sveitinni í sviðljósið". Fréttablaðið Sirkus (in Icelandic). pp. 8–9.
  3. ^ a b c "Besta viðurkenningin er manns eigin". Dagblaðið Vísir Helgarblað (in Icelandic). 29 July 2000. pp. 28, 37.
  4. ^ a b "Ung, óþekkt háskólamær ráðin í aðalkvenhlutverkið í Myrkrahöfðingjanum: 'Var í ævintýraleit' segir Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir sem valin var úr 150 umsækjendum". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 6 December 1997. p. 16.
  5. ^ a b Ásgeir Jónsson (18 March 2011). "Grét ballerínudrauminn í sveitinni". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). pp. 36f37.
  6. ^ "4th, 2000". The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival History. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir". Icelandic Film Centre. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Erfitt að leika á móti Jóni Gnarr í Næturvaktinni". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). 26 November 2007. p. 24.
  9. ^ Mike Hale (24 October 2017). "Critic's notebook: In Three Nordic Noir Streaming Series, Women Investigators Fight the Chill". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Tonight's TV: Trust Me I'm A Doctor, The Extreme Diet Hotel and Cover Story". The National. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Edduverðlaun 2013" (in Icelandic). Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Glæpasagnadrottningin á tökustað á Hesteyri". Fréttatíminn (in Icelandic). 13 November 2015. p. 38.
  13. ^ Frank Scheck (16 November 2017). "'I Remember You': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  14. ^ "Pity the Lovers". Seattle International Film Festival. 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  15. ^ Guðrún Sóley Gestsdóttir (17 March 2021). "Fiskibollor og fortíðardraugar" (in Icelandic). RÚV. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Kærustuparið í Efstaleiti geislaði á hátiðarforsýningurnar". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 4 February 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  17. ^ Kevin Maher (3 July 2020). "A White, White Day review — slow-burn Icelandic thriller". The Times. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Borgarstjórinn". Radio Times. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  19. ^ Helgi Snær Sigurðsson (30 September 2021). "Skítsama um hvað öðrum finnst". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  20. ^ "Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir leikkona: nýbökið móðir". Fréttablaðið Helgarblað (in Icelandic). 16 February 2013. p. 24.

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