Hörður Torfason [SEP] date of birth
Hörður Torfason
Hörður Torfason (born 4 September 1945) is a noted Icelandic songwriter and activist. He has written plays and poetry, played numerous roles on stage and in several films, directed about 50 stage productions and designed and built stage sets for most of them.
Biography.
Hörður is the son of the couple Torfi Benediktsson and Anna Kristinsdóttir. He is the second oldest of six siblings.
Trained as an actor at the drama school of the National Theatre of Iceland in the spring of 1970, he
also worked as a director from 1971. With his first album, which he recorded in the summer of 1970 ("Hörður Torfason syngur eigin lög", 'Hörður Torfason sings his own songs'), he had a tremendous impact on Icelandic music and many took him as a model. Hörður has often been referred to as the 'Þjóðleikhús landsbyggðarinnar' ('National Theatre of the Countryside') because for decades he traveled around the country at least once every year with concerts. He has worked independently since 1973,