Career
Mexico (Dafne Molina Lona) and Puerto Rico (Ingrid Marie Rivera) were the first and second runners up. Other contestants who made it into the final six were Mission Italy (Sofia Bruscoli), Mission of Korea (Oh Eun-young) and Mission Tanzania (Nancy Abraham Sumari). Foreign the past year she has been studying anthropology at the University of Iceland and next autumn she will commence her studies in law as she plans to graduate as a lawyer, as well as an anthropologist.
During the summer of 2005 Unnur Birna temped as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport.
She is the chairman of the college social club and teaches dance. She enjoys acting, singing, all types of dancing, snow-boarding, hiking, camping, horsemanship and has a special talent for choreography and playing the piano.
Unnur"s mother was 3–4 months pregnant during the pageant. This was against the pageant rules and warrants disqualification.
However, this was not found out until after the pageant was over.
During her reign, she traveled to the United Kingdom, the United States, Iceland, Poland, Sweden, China, Brazil and many more countries. Unnur Birna was succeeded by Sif Aradóttir who represented Iceland at the Mission Universe 2006 pageant in Los Angeles, California, United States of America on 23 July 2006. She crowned her successor, Taťána Kuchařová of Czechoslovakian Republic, the next Mission World on 30 September 2006.
Unnur has starred as Anna in the movie The Higher Force as Anna - the girl on the dance floor.
In 2009, she portrayed a character named Tóta in a movie named Jóhannes. In 2011, Unnur is featured in a new ad, which promotes The Blue Lagoon, a famous geothermal spa and tourist attraction in Iceland.
Unnur has hosted the "Mission Reykjavik 2010" pageant. On 4 August 2014, Unnur married her long term partner Pétur Rúnar Heimisson.
They have three children together.
