Ásdís Thoroddsen (born 26 February 1959) is an Icelandic director, producer, screenwriter, and actress.
She started her career in film as an assistant on the set of an adaptation of Halldór Laxness's novel Le Paradis for the German channel NDR in 1979.
In 1983, she starred in the film Skilaboð til Söndru by Kristin Pálsdóttir.
[1][2] She shot her first feature film in 1992, Ingaló, the story of a rebellious girl and her brother in an Icelandic fishing village.
[7] In September 2016, Sæmundur published the first novel on Ásdís Thoroddsen, Utan þjónustusvæðis – krónika.