Website www.hallawilliams.com Name Halla Vilhjalmsdottir | Role Television actress Movies Ghost Machine, Astropia | |
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Full Name Halla Vilhjalmsdottir Other names Hatla Williams, Halla Williams, Halla Koppel Education | ||
A voice from iceland halla vilhjalmsdottir
Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir (born 30 January 1982) is an Icelandic television, film actress, and singer.
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- A voice from iceland halla vilhjalmsdottir
- Biography
- Movie career
- Television career
- Stage career
- Mountaineering career
- Music career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Biography
Halla graduated in 2004 at the Guildford School of Acting in Guildford, Surrey, she worked in this time for ITV and the BBC.
Movie career
In 2002, Halla earned a role in the Icelandic drama film Gemsar and starred in her first lead role in the 2006 comedy film Áramótaskaup. One year later, she portrayed Beta in Icelandic fantasy comedy film Astrópía. In 2009 earned her first international role and played a prisoner in the British mystery thriller film Ghost Machine under the pseudonym Hatla Williams.
Television career
Halla hosted the 2006 Icelandic version of X Factor. She played 2008 one of the lead roles in the Icelandic Crime television series Mannaveiðar. She has played various roles in TV comedies and sitcoms.
Stage career
She played the lead role in the Threepenny Opera at the Icelandic National Theatre and the lead role of Arial in Footloose among others.
Mountaineering career
Halla has summited four of the Seven Summits - Aconcagua 6,960m, Mount Elbrus 5,642m, Kilimanjaro 5,895m and Mount Vinson 4,892m.
Music career
The Soprano singer performed the song Roses in the fourth Semi-Final of the Iceland preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Vilhjálmsdóttir is the female lead singer of the Icelandic Pop band Villimadur.
Personal life
In 2007, she was for a short time in a relationship with Hollywood star Jude Law.
In 2014 she married Colombian banker Harry Koppel in Bogota and they have one daughter (Louisa Koppel) born on the 23 September 2015
In 2015 she started an MBA at the University of Oxford with a GMAT score above 700.