Orto Ignatiussen

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Orto Ignatiussen (born February 19, 1959 in Skjoldungen , † March 4, 2019 in Tasiilaq ) was a Greenlandic actor and theater director .

Life

Orto Ignatiussen was born in the residential group Skjoldungen in the then still populated south-east of Greenland. He moved from place to place when he was young as his mother was the area's only midwife. His father denied paternity and even threatened to shoot him while drunk with his hunting rifle. Orto Ignatiussen tried to deal with his childhood trauma with acting. As a boy he wrote and instructed acting performances for other children. He was discovered when he was 17 years old and, having previously worked as a hunter and painter, began training as an actor in Greenland at Tuukkaq-Teatret in Fjaltring, Denmark in 1981 . He later founded the Qinngorniit children's and youth theater in Greenland . He was extremely popular with children and won the Danish Children's Affairs Award in 2006. When his wife and children left him, he became an alcoholic. He later lived with the Danish director Karen Littauer and her son. Orto Ignatiussen was the only Greenlandic actor who worked in films internationally. In 2000 he had a role in the Icelandic-Danish-Norwegian coproduction Ikíngut . In 2006 he was a production assistant for the US film Antarctica - Caught in the Ice . In 2013 he had a speaking role in the Oscar-winning film Gravity and had the lead role in its spin-off Aningaaq . Orto Ignatiussen died on March 4, 2019 at the age of 60 from alcohol poisoning.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Et liv er forbi: Orto Ignatiussens liv var som Østgrønland: Barskt og smukt at information.dk
  2. ↑ Orto Ignatiussen at danskefilm.dk
  3. ↑ Orto Ignatiussen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Dødsfald: Skuespilleren Orto Ignatiussen he GaEt bort in Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Ignatiussen, Orto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Skjoldungen
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2019
Place of death Tasiilaq