Elín Hall is a critically acclaimed Icelandic-Canadian multidisciplinary artist working across music and film. Raised between Montréal and Reykjavík, her work is rooted in emotional honesty, vivid storytelling and a deep sense of place. Whether on screen or through song, Hall explores the complexities of intimacy, grief, desire and identity with remarkable restraint.

Born in Montréal to Icelandic parents, Hall grew up between Canada and Iceland in a family shaped by science and music. The daughter of a geophysicist and a professor of music education, she began exploring songwriting and filmmaking at home, while training as a dancer from an early age. She later studied acting at Iceland University of the Arts, graduating in 2022.

Hall's screen career began while she was still a teenager, before her breakthrough performance in Let Me Fall earned her her first Edda Award nomination. She later appeared in Cold, receiving a second Edda nomination, before taking the lead role of Una in Rúnar Rúnarsson's When the Light Breaks. The film opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and Hall's performance earned her the Silver Hugo for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival and Iceland's Edda Award for Best Leading Actress.

In 2025, Hall was selected as one of European Film Promotion's ten European Shooting Stars and presented at the Berlin International Film Festival. That same year, she portrayed a young Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in the television series Vigdís, a performance that earned her the 2026 Edda Award for Best Leading Actress in Television.

Running parallel to her screen career is an equally ambitious musical trajectory. Hall emerged as one of Iceland's most distinctive musical voices through deeply personal songwriting, pairing literary lyricism with expansive, cinematic production. Her second album, heyrist í mér?, received widespread critical acclaim in Iceland, was named Album of the Year at the Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards and produced three #1 radio singles.

Driven by a desire to share her stories with a wider audience, Hall began developing her first English-language album with GRAMMY-winning producer Martin Terefe at London's historic Eastcote Studios. Written from the perspective of an artist navigating ambition, belonging and the experience of growing up on an island while looking toward the wider world, the record expands Hall's sonic palette without losing the emotional clarity at the heart of her work. Rich with vivid imagery, cinematic arrangements and fearless vulnerability, it includes ten original songs alongside a reimagining of David Bowie's As The World Falls Down, which Alternative Press named one of its Best Songs of 2025.

Hall's international music career has continued to grow through performances at Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Great Escape, NXNE and WFNM in Los Angeles, alongside performances with Laufey, YUNGBLUD and The Smashing Pumpkins. Her appearance at Eurosonic earned a four-star review from Rolling Stone Germany.

At the centre of both sides of Hall's work is the same instinct: storytelling. Whether inhabiting a character on screen or writing from lived experience, she approaches each project with an interest in complicated interior lives and the stories people tell about themselves and one another. Moving between music and film not as separate careers but as interconnected forms of expression, Elín Hall has built an artistic world shaped by the places that formed her — Montréal, Reykjavík and the space between them.