Years active 2000–present Movies The Quiet Storm | Occupation Actor Grandparent Baltasar Samper | |
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Full Name Baltasar Breki Baltasarsson Parents Baltasar Kormákur, Ástrós Gunnarsdóttir Similar Baltasar Kormákur, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Guðný Halldórsdóttir, Ómar Ragnarsson | ||
Baltasar Breki Samper (born 22 July 1989), sometimes referred to as Baltasar Breki Baltasarsson, is an Icelandic actor. He is the son of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur. Before graduating from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2015 Samper helped his father on several films as second assistant director. He is known for his role as Hjörtur in the Icelandic TV series Trapped.
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Early life
Samper was born in Reykjavík, Iceland to parents Ástrós Gunnarsdóttir, choreographer and Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (better known as Baltasar Kormákur) in 1989. He graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 2008. During the first two years he was part of the school's drama department, but decided to quit in his third year to focus on other studies.
When Samper was a boy he attended ballroom dancing classes. His mother recalls in an 2008 interview: "I think he only attended because he had a crush on the girl that he went with. He is a fine dancer and also very musical. He learned to play the guitar and has music in all of body not just the fingers as some musicians do."
When Samper was 18 years old, his mother threw him out of the house. This is how he recalls that time in an 2015 interview:
"I was a troubled teen and not very interested in school. I was mainly there for the drama department. When you're 18 and thrown out there's not much else to do than find an apartment with the two Swedish girls you worked with at a bar. It all worked out in the end and I graduated, although my grades could have been better."
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