Gudmundur Thorvaldsson

Gudmundur Thorvaldsson is an Icelandic actor based in Iceland.

He graduated from the Icelandic Acting School in 1998, has an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University in 2009 and an MBA degree from The University of Reykjavik in 2014. Gudmundur starred in his first film Sporlaust (No Trace) in 1997 and has been very active as an artist ever since.

Early on in his carreer Gudmundur started doing all kinds of voice work and has continued to do so to this day. He reads novels on a regular basis for Storytel, and he is currently the voice of the Iceland National Broadcasting service, channel 2.

He has dubbed in Icelandic for numerous characters in various projects like Spiderman, Spies in Disguise, Asterix, Garfield, Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness. He has, over the years, been the voice for numerous brands in Iceland like, Suzuki, Sýn sports channel, Duracel, Maxwell‘s house Coffee, Corny, Opal Háls, Tópas, Snickers etc.

Gudmundur‘s first work in games was playing (mocap) Sigurd Styrbjornsson in Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla. Then he voiced Hero of Slaanesh 2 ub Total War, Warhammer III. He plays Fargrimr (mocap) in Hellblade II Senua‘s Saga and just voiced for Aurick in an upcoming game with the working title Echoes of the End by Myrkur Games.

His acting credits include playing Marcellus in the feature Mary directed by DJ Caruso, co–starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. (Which apparently is the most successful biblical film on Netflix ever!) He plays John the Baptist in Terence Malik‘s The Way of the Wind with an expected premiere in 2027 and Skallagrim in a new series, Bloodaxe, created by the same team as did the Vikings. The series is expected to air on Amazon in the 3rd quarter of 2026.

With a neutral European accent and a natural delivery with a gravitas style, his voice can work easily in an international space.