Helga Vala Helgadóttir (born 14 March 1972) is an Icelandic lawyer, former member of the Althing, and an actress.

[1] She was educated at Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð and then in 1998 trained in acting at the Icelandic Academy of the Performing Arts.

[1] Helga Vala is married to Grímur Atlason, a former manager of the Iceland Airwaves music festival.

[5] Helga Vala attracted much attention for her criticism of Sigríður Á. Andersen how served as Minister of Justice.

In 2017 Sigríður did not follow the recommendations of a special committee list of the most qualified judges for the newly formed Icelandic court of appeals and instead hand-picked 4 of them, including the wife of fellow Independence Party parliamentarian Brynjar Níelsson.

[6] On 12 March 2019 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the appointments had been made illegally.