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Actor

1999-09-29 · Female

5 series in the catalog

Nora Rios (born 29 September 1999) is a Swedish actress. Her breakout role was in Caliphate (2022). She had main roles in Heartbeats (2022–2023) and An Honest Life (2025). She also starred in the series Life on Seacrow Island (2025).

Life and career

She was born on 29 September 1999. She is of Peruvian and Swedish descent; her parents met while working as cultural guides in Cusco and moved to Sweden before her birth. She has two younger siblings. She grew up in Eriksberg, Uppsala and initially considered pursuing a career in journalism. She moved to Stockholm after being accepted to a theatre programme at Södra Latin. As of December 2025, she was studying directing at HDK-Valand.

She appeared in Bankrånet (2013), Arne Dahl: Mörkertal (2015), Beck – Sista dagen (2016), and Arkeologens dotter (2018). Her breakout role was in Caliphate (2020) as Sulle, as a 15-year-old high school student whose previously normal life transforms under the influence of Islamic State propaganda. She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival the same year.

Rios played a young radical named Max in An Honest Life (2025). She starred as Malin Melkersson in the SVT production Life on Seacrow Island, which was released on 31 October 2025. The series was a remake of a series of the same name, which was written by Astrid Lindgren and premiered in 1964.

Nora Rios at the Swedish Film Database