Elín Hall is a multi-talented performer with a list of impressive screen credits. Born in Canada, the Icelandic star began to showcase her ability in the likes of Let Me Fall [+see also:
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film profile] (2018) and Cold (2023). Her performance exploring the complexity of grief in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks [+see also:
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film profile] (2024), which opened the Un Certain Regard strand at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, has awarded her numerous awards. She also portrays a young Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the world’s first democratically elected female president, in the series Vigdís. Elín also straddles the line between music and film, with two albums already to her name.

Now selected for EFP's 2025 European Shooting Stars, she talks to us about his emerging career.