Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir

Margrét graduated as an actress from the Iceland Academy of Arts in 1994. Since then she has played over 50 roles on stage, in films, in TV-projects and on radio. She has also composed and directed her own work and plays. Big roles in recent years include Madame Thénardíer in Les Misérables, Lady Macbeth, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, for which she received the Gríma award. In 2020 she moved to Norway and worked for three years at the Hålogaland theatre. In 2024-2025 she will be starring in a new play by Hrafnhildur Hagalín at the National Theatre of Iceland.

Recent TV-work is her role as Ása in Trapped 3.

Margrét has been nominated multiple times for both the Gríma awards and Edda awards for her performances, on both stage and in films. She has won a Gríma award twice and an Edda award once. She got awarded “Shooting Star” at the Berlinale Film Festival and in 1997 she received Stefaníustjakinn, which is an honorary award for her contribution to the Icelandic acting and theatre scene.