# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gar-ar-thor-cortes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:04.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gar-ar-thor-cortes"
name: "Garðar Thór Cortes"
slug: "gar-ar-thor-cortes"
description: "Garðar Thór Cortes is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album Cortes, released in Iceland in 2005, that Garðar came to prominence. His debut album in the UK, also titled Cortes, was released on 16 April 2007 and entered the UK Classical Charts at number 1."
tagline: "Icelandic tenor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GardarThorCortes-Iceland-20071221.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             1.044537537206482
  historical:           6.614904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181259/"
    handle:    "nm0181259"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gardarthorcortes.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1010422"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جاردار ثور كورتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ar_Th%C3%B3r_Cortes"
    title: "Garðar Thór Cortes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ar_Th%C3%B3r_Cortes"
    title: "Garðar Thór Cortes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ar_Thor_Cortes"
    title: "Garðar Thor Cortes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ar_Th%C3%B3r_Cortes"
    title: "Garðar Thór Cortes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cbebf243-fa8d-44d1-a6f7-2d0896dd6d7d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338203"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246498"
    title: "Garðar Thór Cortes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump