X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Icelandic American


Icelandic American

Leslie Stefanson is an Icelandic American actress best known for playing the title role in The General's Daughter.

Helgi Tómasson is a former ballet dancer and current artistic director for the San Francisco Ballet and its ballet school is originally from Iceland.

Journalist Jón Ólafsson, one of the first Icelanders to emigrate to the United States, was renowned for his attempt to establish a community for Icelandic American political dissidents on Kodiak Island in Alaska via petition to Ulysses S. Grant.

Hansen reconnected with his Icelandic roots by starring in the 2009 Icelandic horror film Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.



see also