Þorfinnur Ómarsson (born 25 October 1965) is an Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic media personality and film and TV producer.

Thorfinnur has worked in the Icelandic media and entertainment industry since the late 1980s. He was the Managing Director of the Icelandic Film Fund and the Icelandic Film Centre from 1996 to 2003. During this period, some of Iceland's most prolific film directors made their debuts, such as Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven , and a film based on the book Mýrin by Arnaldur Indriðason...

 (101 Reykjavík

101 Reykjavík

101 Reykjavík is a 2000 film set in Reykjavík, Iceland based on a book of the same name by Hallgrímur Helgason. It was directed by Baltasar Kormákur and stars Victoria Abril and Hilmir Snær Guðnason. The name of the film is taken from the postal code for down-town Reykjavík, "the old city"...

) and Dagur Kári

Dagur Kári

Dagur Kári is an Icelandic film director.He was born in Paris, France to Icelandic parents and returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. Dagur graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, with art house short movie Lost Weekend...

 (Nói albínói

Nói Albínói

Noi the Albino is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói Kristmundsson in a remote fishing village in western Iceland. It won multiple awards....

). Thorfinnur was one of the founders of the Icelandic Film and TV Academy, which runs the Icelandic Edda Awards. He was the live-broadcast host of the first ceremony in 1999. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Director of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Iceland

University of Iceland

The University of Iceland is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern comprehensive university, providing instruction for about...

, and was then hired by Dagur Group to head its production arm, BaseCamp. He has been host of Ísland í dag (Iceland today) on Stöð 2

Stöð 2

Stöð 2 is an Icelandic television channel, owned and operated by 365. Founded in 1986, It was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting...

 (Icelandic Channel 2) and of Vikulokin (The End of the Week) on Rás 1

Rás 1

Rás 1 is an Icelandic radio station belonging to and operated by Ríkisútvarpið , Iceland's national broadcasting service. Rás 1 carries primarily news, weather, current affairs coverage, and cultural programming dealing with the arts, history, the Icelandic language, literature, and social and...

. He is a member of the European Film Academy

European Film Academy

The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :...

.

Thorfinnur was the Chief Spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission

Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission

The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission was established on 22 February 2002 under the terms of a ceasefire agreement signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as a body that would monitor the ceasefire and enquire into reported violations of the ceasefire agreement...

 in 2006 and 2007, and spokesperson for the Icelandic Ministry of Economics and Commerce from October 2008 to April 2009. In spring 2010 he became editor of Eyjan.

Thorfinnur Omarsson was educated in France, where he also worked as a correspondent. He is a son of Omar Ragnarsson

Ómar Ragnarsson

Ómar Ragnarsson is an Icelandic politician and environmentalist as well as a former entertainer and news reporter. He is the founder and chairman of the environmentalist party Iceland's Movement – Living Land which took part in the 2007 parliamentary elections.Ómar is the father of media...

. Thorfinnur lives with Astros Gunnarsdottir, a theatre director, choreographer, dancer and Pilates

Pilates

Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates in Germany, the UK and the USA. As of 2005, there were 11 million people practicing the discipline regularly and 14,000 instructors in the United States....

instructor. He is also an award-winning chef.

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