Gunnar helgason ben stiller biography

Does it ever feel like life can make us a little… bland? It’s not like we set out to make it that way. Sometimes things happen that we just can’t predict, and, in the wake, we put our heads down and make the responsible decisions. Then, when we finally lift our heads to survey our surroundings, we realize that our dreams and ambitions were lost along the way, usually shuffled off because they weren’t practical or conducive to survival, and it was easier to leave them behind than to bring along the heartache they pack as baggage.

Walter Mitty knows this all too well. He had to face the music that was the swan song of his dreams years ago as a seventeen-year-old kid when his father died unexpectedly. He was dutiful, leaving his passion for skateboarding and Mohawks behind in favor of a job at Papa John’s…, and he has loved his sweet, but flighty sister (Kathryn Hahn) and helped take care of his mother (Shirley MacLaine) ever since.

Now he spends his days as a negative assets manager for Life magazine, a job he’s held for the better part of two decades. It’s not that he doesn’t like his work, because he does. It’s just that he has begun to realize that his life lacks both color and flavor, but he doesn’t have a clue what to do about it. His half-baked, half-hearted plan to woo his office love interest, Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig), via an eHarmony account is the proof in the pudding. He simply isn’t noteworthy or mentionable. Not as far as he can tell, at least.

He has coped with this for years by getting lost in his daydreams, which find him frequently crossing the line between what he would like to do and what he will actually do. In his dreams he is bold and empowered, calm and suave, and even brave and courageous. But these attributes he doesn’t believe he holds or is capable of in the real world.

His real world is shaken and brought crumbling down when the rumblings of the end of Life in its print form come to fruitio

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Icelandic-American actor (born 1973)

For other people named Ólafur Ólafsson, see Ólafur Ólafsson (disambiguation).

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ólafur.

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (born 3 March 1973) is an Icelandic-American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for Fangavaktin, Children, Trapped and The Deep. On the international stage, he is known for his appearances in Severance, Lady Dynamite, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Early life

Ólafur was born to Icelandic parents in Connecticut, United States, where his father studied medicine. His family returned to Iceland when he was around four years old.

Career

Ólafur graduated from the Icelandic Drama School in 1998. Afterward, he became involved in numerous productions with the National Theatre of Iceland and Reykjavík City Theatre, also working with various independent theatre groups. He is one of the founders of Vesturport Theatre in Reykjavík.

Ólafur is best known internationally for his role as Andri, the chief of police in the small town of Seyðisfjörður in the east of Iceland, in the series Trapped. Baltasar Kormákur, who devised the series, has said that the actor was chosen because he was not a typical leading man. In the UK, the Guardian TV critic called his performance "as remarkable as the landscape". Ólafur himself has said that he based the character on his own father.^[4&#