 Guðrún S. Gísladóttir, who is Icelandic, played one of the major roles in Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's 1986 film, "The Sacrifice".Anita Briem, known for her performance in Showtime's "The Tudors", is also Icelandic.Briem starred in the 2008 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth", which shot scenes in Iceland.