Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir

Hair Color: Dark BlondeEye Color: Hazel

Languages:Mother Tongue: IcelandicFluent in: EnglishFamiliar with: Danish, French

Biography

Sara started her career in films around the age of twenty when she was offered a role in the film Witchcraft by director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. She won an award at the Puchon international film festival in South Korea for that role. Sara later studied acting at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and graduated in 2005. During her studies she was offered her second role in film, the role of Anna in Kaldaljós by Hilmar Oddsson based on a book by Vigdís Grímsdóttir, that film received the Icelandic Edda awards for best film in 2004. Since then Sara has performed both on stage and in television and film. After graduation, she soon started working at the City Theatre and has been in projects there both with the theatre and in independent theatre projects.

Among her roles in film and television is Lára, the lead role in three seasons of the series Pressa, for which she won the Icelandic film award, Edda, for “Actress of the Year” in 2013. Other notable roles include the lead in the eight-episode series Vitjanir/Fractures, directed by Eva Sigurðardóttir, the role of Dagbjört in the series Stella Blómkvist, and the role of Ásdís in Elfar Aðalsteinn’s film Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttin, based on the novel of the same name by Jón Kalman for which she received a nomination for the Edda Award. .

Sara’s recent projects include roles in the True Detective series and Ljósvíkingar, a film by Snævar Sölvason. She recently completed filming for the series Everybody Loves Horses, set to premiere in late 2025. Her last role in the theatre was the role of Vanda in Venus in Fur by David Ives for which she received a nomination for Best actress in a leading role by the Icelandic theatre awards.

Curriculum Vitae

Awards

Film

Short films

TV

Theater

Showreel

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