Cast Biographies

 

Keith Carradine (SIMON)
Keith Carradine (b.1949) started his acting career in the late 1960 in the Broadway musical Hair. He got his first film role in 1971 in the Kirk Douglas-Johnny Cash western A Gunfight and later the same year in he was featured in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Carradine was first seriously put on the show-biz map when he started working with Robert Altman in 1974. He earned the Best Song Oscar for "I´m Easy" which he composed and preformed in Altman's Nashville in 1975. Carradine continued to work in film and television showing up in movies like A Thousand Acres (1997) and various TV series.

Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir (DUA)
Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir started her acting career at early age. She graduated from the Drama Academy of Iceland in 1994 and has kept up a busy schedule since. Upon graduation she joined the ensemble of the Reykjavík Theater Company and preformed in many classic plays and several new Icelandic productions. Since 1997, she has been an ensemble player at the Icelandic National Theater and has participated in numerous productions. She has preformed extensively in television and radio. For her role in the feature film Seagull´s Laughter by Agust Gudmundsson, she won the Icelandic Film Award for Best Actress in 2001. Vilhjálmsdottir represented Iceland at the European Shooting Star event in Berlin 2002.

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (COP)
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (b. 1963) graduated from the Drama Academy of Iceland in 1990. Since then he has played leading roles, both dramatic and comic, in many of Iceland's theaters and participated in both independent productions and others with the National Theater of Iceland. Besides Ingvar has played many film and television roles and worked in commercials. He most recently appeared in the Hollywood production K-19: The Widowmaker. He has received a number of prizes and nominations for his work, twice he has received the Icelandic Film Prize - Edda as Iceland's Best Actor; in 1994 he was awarded The European Film Award for  Best European Actor - People's Choice and represented Iceland at European Shooting Star event at the 1999 Berlin Festival.  Ingvar first worked with Fridrik Thor Fridriksson in Devil´s Island in 1996 and followed by that he played the leading role in Angels of the Universe.  Now they join forces again in Falcons.