--- name: "Noomi Rapace" canonical: "https://film.one/person/noomi-rapace" roles: ["Actor"] born: "28 December 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-19T16:06:36.030348+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Noomi Rapace Actor. Born 28 December 1979 in Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 28 December 1979, Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden - **Also known as:** Hilda Noomi Norén, Noomi Norén, Hilda Noomi Rapace - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noomi_Rapace, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228676, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87722 ## Streaming the US now - **Peacock:** [*Prometheus*](https://film.one/film/prometheus.md) (60) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Noomi Rapace > Noomi Rapace acts with her whole body and treats wanting as something physical, and she is at her best when a film gives that force a person to belong to. Too often since Lisbeth Salander it has handed her a survivor and called that a character. Watch Noomi Rapace want something. In *Prometheus* (2012) her Elizabeth Shaw wears a cross and wants to meet the beings who made her, and Rapace plays it not as faith or as curiosity but as appetite, held in the jaw and the shoulders. Few actors can make a longing look like a physical strain. The script gives her a dead father in a dream and calls that a character; she makes something of it anyway, and it is her doing, not the writers'. That physical commitment is how she got here. The career began small, with a non-speaking part aged seven in the Icelandic film *In the Shadow of the Raven* (1988), then a move away from home at 15 to study acting in Stockholm, stage work, Swedish television and independent films such as *Daisy Diamond* (2007). In 2009 came Lisbeth Salander in *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* and the rest of the Millennium trilogy, for which she trained in martial arts, had herself pierced and changed her hair, and became known abroad almost overnight. *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* and *Prometheus* followed as the English-language phase, and the later work moves between the arthouse and television: *What Happened to Monday* (2017), in which she plays all the Settman siblings, *Lamb* (2021), an Icelandic folk horror she also executive-produced, and the series *Constellation*. The trouble with a breakthrough like Salander is that it fixes you. For years the international press took the character for the woman, an angry and aggressive presence, a reading Rapace has said does not match her, and a good deal of what she has done since looks like an attempt to get out from under it. She has put it this way: "I’ve always seen myself as a human rather than a woman." That is as good an account of her acting as anyone has offered. She plays a person under pressure first and lets everything else arrive afterwards. We will admit that in *Prometheus* we believed in Shaw's hunger to meet her makers more than the film deserved, and that was Rapace: the script cannot say why Shaw wants it, but she can show that she does, and for a few minutes at a time the film's large questions felt like one woman's rather than a studio's. What she has not had, on the evidence of what we have reviewed, is a part that matches the force with a fully written person. Ridley Scott, who has worked with her twice, gave her Shaw and then gave Shaw a cross and a dream and left the rest to her. The body is always ready; the pages are not always there. We would like to see a film patient enough to let her sit still and find out what happens. Until then, see her in *Prometheus* for the hour the pictures are good, and watch the woman who keeps wanting after the script has stopped explaining why. ## Biography Noomi Rapace is a Swedish actress. Born Hilda Noomi Norén on 28 December 1979 in Hudiksvall, Sweden, she is the daughter of actress Nina Norén and flamenco singer Rogelio Durán. She began acting as a child and later studied theatre in Stockholm. Rapace gained international attention for portraying Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish Millennium trilogy films released in 2009: *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*, *The Girl Who Played with Fire* and *The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest*. She played Elizabeth Shaw in *Prometheus* (2012). Her other film roles include appearances in *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), *The Drop* (2014), *Child 44* (2015) and *What Happened to Monday* (2017). She has also worked in television, including the series *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these - *Prometheus* (2012), Fi1m 60, as Elizabeth Shaw — [page](https://film.one/film/prometheus.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Alien: Covenant* (2017), Fi1m 57, as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-covenant.md) ## Complete filmography (56) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *In Alaska* (2026), Actor - *Hot Spot* (2026), as Rana - *The End* (2026), as (voice) - *The End of It* (2026), as Martha - *Mother* (2025), as Mother Teresa - *Garbo: Where Did You Go?* (2024), Executive Producer - *Constellation* (2024), series, as Johanna 'Jo' Ericsson - *Hearts of Stone* (2024), as Paula - *Assassin Club* (2023), as Falk / Agent Vos · Executive Producer - *Django* (2023), series, as Elizabeth Thurman - *You Won't Be Alone* (2022), as Bosilka · Executive Producer - *Black Crab* (2022), as Caroline Edh - *Lamb* (2021), as María · Executive Producer - *The Trip* (2021), as Lisa - *Here Are the Young Men* (2021), as Angel Dust - *Oxygen* (2021), Executive Producer - *The Secrets We Keep* (2020), as Maja · Executive Producer - *Angel of Mine* (2019), as Lizzie · Executive Producer - *Stockholm* (2019), as Bianca Lind · Co-Producer - *Close* (2019), as Sam Carlson · Executive Producer - *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), series, as Harriet 'Harry' Baumann - *Bruce Lee and the Outlaw* (2018), Executive Producer - *Bright* (2017), as Leilah - *What Happened to Monday* (2017), as The Settman Siblings - *Alien: Covenant* (2017), as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (uncredited) — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-covenant.md) - *Unlocked* (2017), as Alice Racine - *Rupture* (2016), as Renee - *Child 44* (2015), as Raisa Demidov - *The Drop* (2014), as Nadia - *Dead Man Down* (2013), as Beatrice - *Passion* (2013), as Isabelle James - *Prometheus* (2012), as Elizabeth Shaw — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/prometheus.md) - *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), as Madam Simza Heron - *The Monitor* (2011), as Anna - *Beyond* (2010), as Leena - *Millennium* (2010), series, as Lisbeth Salander - *The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest* (2009), as Lisbeth Salander - *The Girl Who Played with Fire* (2009), as Lisbeth Salander - *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* (2009), as Lisbeth Salander - *Daisy Diamond* (2007), as Anna - *Labyrint* (2007), series, as Nicky - *Du & jag* (2006), as Maja - *Lovisa och Carl Michael* (2005), as Anna Rella - *Bloodbrothers* (2005), as Veronica - *Capricciosa* (2003), as Elvira - *Röd jul* (2001), as First woman in the bar - *Truth or Dare* (1997), as Nadja - *Tre kronor* (1994), series, as Lucinda Gonzales - *The Technique*, Actor - *Reckoner*, Actor - *Stratagem*, as Stella Turner - *No Man's Land*, as Magda · Executive Producer - *The Kellys*, Actor - *Mr. Nawashi*, Actor - *Traction*, as Kate - *Palette*, as Latrice ## Gallery - ![Noomi Rapace](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-92e17b9a810e.jpg) Noomi Rapace — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Noomi_Rapace_%2835974082192%29.jpg/1280px-Noomi_Rapace_%2835974082192%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![David Ayer, Noomi Rapace, Joel Edgerton, Will Smith, Edgar Ramirez and Lucy Fry speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Bright", at the San](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-0a9a08aab6c5.jpg) David Ayer, Noomi Rapace, Joel Edgerton, Will Smith, Edgar Ramirez and Lucy Fry speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Bright", at the San — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/David_Ayer%2C_Noomi_Rapace%2C_Joel_Edgerton%2C_Will_Smith%2C_Edgar_Ramirez_%26_Lucy_Fry_%2835335177313%29.jpg/1280px-David_Ayer%2C_Noomi_Rapace%2C_Joel_Edgerton%2C_Will_Smith%2C_Edgar_Ramirez_%26_Lucy_Fry_%2835335177313%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![David Ayer, Noomi Rapace, Joel Edgerton and Will Smith speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Bright", at the San Diego Convention Center ](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-c5ffb5f4042f.jpg) David Ayer, Noomi Rapace, Joel Edgerton and Will Smith speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Bright", at the San Diego Convention Center — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/David_Ayer%2C_Noomi_Rapace%2C_Joel_Edgerton_%26_Will_Smith_%2835335130053%29.jpg/1280px-David_Ayer%2C_Noomi_Rapace%2C_Joel_Edgerton_%26_Will_Smith_%2835335130053%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Attending "In Alaska" Premiere at TIFF 2026](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-bf89937eede1.jpg) Attending "In Alaska" Premiere at TIFF 2026 — Sarran Hamilton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Jaap_and_Noomi_-_In_Alaska_-_TIFF_2026-1.jpg/1280px-Jaap_and_Noomi_-_In_Alaska_-_TIFF_2026-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - 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![Noomi Rapace](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-7f690546d2cb.jpg) Noomi Rapace — Image via TMDB - ![Noomi Rapace](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-7bd6ad461fac.jpg) Noomi Rapace — Image via TMDB - ![Noomi Rapace](https://film.one/media/person/216/gallery-9900704e56df.jpg) Noomi Rapace — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 6 won, 1 nominated - Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 2021: Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award (won), for *Lamb* - Amanda Award for Best Actress 2012: Amanda Award for Best Actress (won), for *The Monitor* - Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize 2010: Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize (won) - European Film Award for Best Actress 2009: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* - Satellite Awards 2009: Satellite Awards (won) - Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 2008: Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (won), for *Daisy Diamond* - Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 2008: Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (won), for *Daisy Diamond* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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