Nanna Blondell


Nanna Terese Blondell is a Swedish actress. She has acted on stage, on television and movies. She will soon be seen in Marvel Studios's Black Widow.

Education

She has a degree from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts

TV and Film Career

Blondell made her on screen debut in the SVT drama series Livet enligt Rosa in 2005. After working for a while as a VJ with MTV Sweden she landed a role in an episode of police procedural Beck the following year, and a recurring role in soap opera Andra avenyn.
She raised her profile when she joined the cast of popular sci-fi drama Real Humans, a TV series that was exported around the world including the United Kingdom and France.
She made her English language debut with Ø, an English-Language French TV series filmed in Denmark.
In 2018, she landed one of the roles in French feature film :fr:Sœurs d'armes |Soeurs d'armes, inspired by a real military unit with female Kurdish, Yezidi and resistance fighters fighters taking on ISIS, and was the only actress who did not speak any French. She portrayed an African-American sniper.
She can also be seen in Immortal as Sha Dishi - the leader of nation of immortals. This was also an English language French production, and could be seen via the French streaming app :fr:Blackpills|Blackpills.
Blondell had the female co-lead in gritty crime drama Hassel alongside James Bond: Skyfall actor Ola Rapace, and TWIN starring Game of Throne's Kristofer Hivju.
In 2019, she announced on social media that she had a secret role in Marvel's Black Widow.
Her latest project is Red Dot, the first Netflix feature film coming out of Sweden, co-starring with Anastasios Soulis.

Theatre

Since 2013, Nanna Blondell is working at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, but has been on unpaid leave to work on film and television projects.

Other

Blondell runs the podcast Fenomenala kvinnor, where she interviews successful Swedish women of color. As a child she wanted to be an actress, but since there were hardly any Swedish actresses of color at the time, she did not think this was a possibility.
In 2016 she did her directorial debut with the short film Noni & Elizabeth. This film was in official selection at LA Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest and Giffoni Film Festival.
Her agent is Finnish-Swedish talent manager Laura Munsterhjelm, the same agent as Swedish actresses Rebecca Ferguson and Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander.

Filmography