Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Elvira Lind asks a lot of her film subjects and viewers, composing honest and insightful documentaries on tough themes; sometimes her reflective work is evolving around her own life’s challenges, and she is learning to be brave with those as well.
- The Danish documentary maker is also known as the spouse of actor Oscar Isaac.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Elvira is a documentarian, who was born in 1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006.
- Lind has a knack for showing artists at work, and was doing a piece on dancer Bobbi Jene Smith where she pushed her boundaries with the dance troupe and in her relationships!
- One of the conglomerate relationship scenes was performed by actor Oscar Isaac, which is how he met Elvira, in 2012.
- Elvira has now been married to Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada since 2017, and they have one child, a son named Eugene.
- She recollects experiencing the intense moment of having their family all in one place for long periods and their shotgun wedding with a handful of people on a friend’s roof in February 2017, back in New York.
- Oscar is a Guatemalan-American musician and former bandmember for The Blinking Underdogs, who was raised in Miami and is an actor who graduated from Juilliard.
- Isaac’s major film roles include Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Nativity Story, Body of Lies, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Show Me a Hero.
- The couple also has an ongoing project called Staircase Sessions where they film ad hoc music sessions and cover tracks with one of Isaac’s bandmates, Bruce.
Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Elvira is a director, writer, and producer who is best known for films Bobbi Jene in 2017, Songs for Alexis in 2014, and Twiz & Tuck in 2017.
- Her work has been shown on television, web, and in cinema both Nationally and Internationally.
- She has received New Talent Awards at IDFA, won at the Tribeca Film Festival, and launched a television series.
Challenging Experiences :
- During her filming actors at the theater workshop Hamlet which Oscar took part in 2017, Elvira found out she was expecting the same day that Oscar found out his mother was seriously ill with aggressive cancer.
- She describes the experience: “Sometimes life is a crazy, crazy ride, with birth and death plowing your timeline at the same speed. Like being hit by a hurricane, pants down. We hadn’t braced ourselves for the impact.”
Trivia and Interests :
- Lind is masterful at words, demonstrating wit and depth as she pre-records a possible acceptance speech from the delivery room when her film premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival. She says that being behind the camera unfiltered and honest at such moments helps her to “digest my own reality, seeing life through my camera.”
- Elvira would like to become an organic farmer and wishes she were brave enough to skydive and surf big waves.