Sverrir gudnason biography samples
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Sverrir Guðnason
Swedish and Icelandic actor
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Sverrir.
Sverrir Páll Guðnason (born 12 September 1978) is a Swedish and Icelandic actor.[1][2][3]
Sverrir was born in Lund, Sweden, to Icelandic parents and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland.[4] He first performed on stage in Heimsljós in the Reykjavík City Theatre and the same year he appeared in Áramótaskaupið.[5] He moved with his family to Tyresö, Sweden, in 1990 when his father found work as a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology.[6][7] At the 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival, he received an award for Best Actor for his role in the Swedish/Danish film Original.
He has since played the role of Pontus Höijer in the second series of Wallander as well as leading roles in productions at both Gothenburg's and Stockholm's