# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjorn-hlynur-haraldsson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:47:26.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bjorn-hlynur-haraldsson"
name: "Björn Hlynur Haraldsson"
slug: "bjorn-hlynur-haraldsson"
description: "Björn Hlynur Haraldsson is an Icelandic actor and director. Björn was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and graduated from the Icelandic Arts Academy in 2001. He co-founded the theatre company Vesturport the same year. In spring of 2015, he starred in the psychological thriller TV series Fortitude. He has previously been noted for roles in the films Eleven Men Out and Jar City. Most recently he appeared as King Eist in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, as Pétur in the A24 horror film Lamb and as Rikki in Cop Secret."
tagline: "Icelandic actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/o3Th2T9TewVBg87jFqtnyHBKSd6.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.869444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1155349/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump