Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Born: January 24, 1969
in Reykjavík, Iceland
Hilmir Snær Guðnason (born 24 January 1969, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor. He is famous in his native country and has appeared in both film and on stage. In 2000 he was named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion. Hilmir graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994. He has played in a number of plays and musicals. He is married to Bryndís Jónsdóttir and has two daughters born in 1995 and 2009. He is best known for his roles in the films "101 Reykjavík" (2000), "The Sea" (2002), "White Night Wedding" (2008) & "Lamb" (2021). Three-time winner of the highest national Icelandic film and TV award - "EDDA" (also nominated 3 times).

Movies for Hilmir Snær Guðnason...

Grand Finale
Title: Grand Finale
Character: Klemens
Released: January 26, 2024
Type: Movie
In Reykjavik, a chamber orchestra on the brink of losing its funding might get a new chance at life
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Wild Game
Title: Wild Game
Character: Rúnar
Released: January 6, 2023
Type: Movie
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
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The Very Last Fishing Trip
Title: The Very Last Fishing Trip
Character: Jónsi
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Blackport
Character: Smári
Released: December 26, 2021
Type: TV
Follows a young married couple who see their livelihoods threatened when the government starts enforcing restrictive fishing quotas after they build a small fishing empire in a village.
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Lamb
Title: Lamb
Character: Ingvar
Released: August 12, 2021
Type: Movie
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
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Alma
Title: Alma
Character: Ingvar
Released: May 7, 2021
Type: Movie
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
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The Last Fishing Trip
Title: The Last Fishing Trip
Character: Jónsi
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really hard work. What was supposed to be a cozy fishing trip, turns out to be a downward spiral to Hell. Let's go fishing.
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A White, White Day
Title: A White, White Day
Character: Olgeir
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Woman at War
Title: Woman at War
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
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Fullir Vasar
Title: Fullir Vasar
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland's most dangerous man, Gulla's car dealership. To help Arnari out of the pinch, his three friends decide to help him rob robbery, gripped and armed. What could possibly go wrong?
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The Swan
Title: The Swan
Character: Frægur leikari
Released: January 5, 2018
Type: Movie
When young Sól is sent to live with her distant countryside relatives for a summer, she becomes entangled in a dramatic rite of passage with a mysterious farmhand, Jón, and the farmer’s daughter, Ásta.
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Cruelty
Title: Cruelty
Character: Pétur
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Two girls disappear from a playground and the two best detectives in the police force try to solve the case.
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In Front of Others
Title: In Front of Others
Character: Fridrik
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Hubert is a shy and introverted graphic designer who hasn't been too successful when approaching women. When he falls in love with Hanna, he tries to impress her by resorting to mimicking his boss, a notorious womanizer. This tactic works as an ice-breaker, but soon things get out of control, with unforeseen consequences.
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The Biggest Rescue
Title: The Biggest Rescue
Released: October 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Friends Sveppi and Villi discover that an old nemesis has built a doomsday machine that can trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. With the help of their friend Gói, they manage to sneak into his evil lair. But this is only half the battle - to save the country they'll have to destroy the machine.
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Brave Men's Blood
Title: Brave Men's Blood
Character: Ívar
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Ferox
Title: Ferox
Character: Drunk man
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
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Polite People
Title: Polite People
Character: Hrafnkell
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Spooks and Spirits
Title: Spooks and Spirits
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Dawn
Title: Dawn
Character: Father
Released: December 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A father and his child wake up from a bad dream.
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Stormland
Title: Stormland
Character: Árni Valur
Released: January 14, 2011
Type: Movie
The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
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Our Own Oslo
Title: Our Own Oslo
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.
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Mamma Gógó
Title: Mamma Gógó
Character: The director
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.
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Circledrawers
Title: Circledrawers
Character: Oleg
Released: January 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.
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The Nail
Title: The Nail
Character: Minister #5
Released: September 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.
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The Higher Force
Title: The Higher Force
Character: Prestur
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: I Hunt Men
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: TV
This thriller series follows two detectives, Gunnar (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) and Hinrik (Gísli Örn Garðarsson),as they attempt to track down a serial killer who has a penchant for murdering goose hunters.
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White Night Wedding
Title: White Night Wedding
Character: Jón
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
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The Quiet Storm
Title: The Quiet Storm
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Adam
Released: May 26, 2007
Type: Movie
A rare syndrome keeps Anna in a world of isolation. Desperate for human contact, she attempts to break free from the shackles of her uncontrollable body with surprising results.
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Cold Trail
Title: Cold Trail
Character: Kjartan
Released: December 29, 2006
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover what really happened.
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Thicker Than Water
Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Pétur's golfmate
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.
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Guy X
Title: Guy X
Character: Petri
Released: June 6, 2005
Type: Movie
A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
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Frozen Paradise
Title: Frozen Paradise
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A filmmaker joins a group of expert kayakers on a kayaking trip in the ice filled fiords of East Greenland. The group visit a remote inuit village, giving an insight into the habits of people in a magnificent country where, fonunately, the pace and stress of the Western world is still absent.
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Title: Every Colour of the Sea Is Cold
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: TV
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Peas at 5:30
Title: Peas at 5:30
Character: Jakob Magnuson
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: Movie
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
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Blueprint
Title: Blueprint
Character: Greg
Released: December 8, 2003
Type: Movie
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before...
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Njalssaga
Title: Njalssaga
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: Ágúst
Released: September 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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On Top Down Under
Title: On Top Down Under
Character: The Man
Released: August 31, 2002
Type: Movie
On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.
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Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike
Title: Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike
Character: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Released: March 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Jóhann is a thirty year old guesthouse owner in downtown Reykjavík who has isolated himself socially after the death of his father. The guesthouse has no visitors until his nine year old neighbour starts visiting Jóhann which leads to a unlikely friendship.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.
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The Seagull's Laughter
Title: The Seagull's Laughter
Character: Magnús
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
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101 Reykjavik
Title: 101 Reykjavik
Character: Hlynur
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
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Angels of the Universe
Title: Angels of the Universe
Character: Pétur
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.
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Witchcraft
Title: Witchcraft
Character: Reverend Jón Magnússon
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
The young and fanatical Jon is appointed pastor to a remote church in 15th century Iceland. As is custom, he marries the widow of his predecessor, a woman much older than he is. He is ardent in his fight against Satan, and the villagers don't dare to question his authority. When he falls for a beautiful young woman, Jon is convinced witchcraft is at work, and his crusade leads to cruel executions of innocent people. The stronger his lust, the deeper his madness drives him in his religious fervor.
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Flying Blind
Title: Flying Blind
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
One day a heavy smoker finally quits his habit exactly when the clock hits noon. After years of thinking about it, he has reached a point of no return. During the next hour he has to face a series of unexpected irritations. Can he resist the temptation of the seductive cigarette? Has he picked the right day for such torture?
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Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn.
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Kalt Borð
Title: Kalt Borð
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Title: Fóstbræður
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: TV
Fóstbræður was a comedy sketch show which premiered on the Icelandic Stöð 2 in October 1997.
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Agnes
Title: Agnes
Character: Guðmundur
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated with contempt by his wife. Agnes falls in love with Natan, a self taught homoeopathic doctor. The sheriff takes revenge on Natan by making it illegal for him to practice his profession. The dramatic relationship between the three main characters ultimately leads to a fatal web of events where a love affair turns into a nightmare of brutality and destruction.
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When Dreams Come True
Title: When Dreams Come True
Released: February 3, 1995
Type: Movie
The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.
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Rust
Title: Rust
Released: December 26, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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La Légende du Cavalier Fantôme
Title: La Légende du Cavalier Fantôme
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie