Ronja Savela

Ronja Savela (born 20 September 1994) is a (Indian) Finnish actress. She was trained at a 2-year acting program at a community college in Sweden and has primarily done theater and appeared in short films such as Silverpilen (2018) and Siri (2018). Ronja Savela was born in Turku, Finland, to a Finnish mother and an Indian father, who both worked as massage therapists. Her mother was a big fan of Astrid Lindgrens stories, and named Savela after the character in Ronja the Robbers Daughter. Savela lived in Turku for one year before they moved to the Aland Islands, where her younger sister was born. Shortly after that, when Savela was about 4 years old, her parents split up, leading her mother to move with the two daughters to Sweden. When Savela was 6, she moved with her mother and sister to Grass Valley, California, where they lived for 10 years. When Savela was in 8th grade she found her love of acting while performing the end of year play, "The Princess Bride", where she played the "Boo"-lady and Miracle Max. This lead her to choose theater as an elective during her freshman year at Nevada Union High School. Shortly after her freshman year ended, her mother moved them back to Finland, where her little brother was born. Savela struggled in school with deciding what career she wanted to pursue, and ended up dropping out during the middle of her Sophomore year. She moved to the Aland Islands to live with her father, and worked as a shoes salesman and a croupier for a couple years. In 2015 she auditioned for a 2-year acting program at Katrinebergs Folkhögskola (community college) in Sweden, and was accepted. She did two years, landing the leading role in her first year production, and touring with her second year production through Sweden. After Savela's school years she joined a theater group in Falkenberg, Sweden, and performed as Bertha in the play "Gnistregn" (2019), and original play with scenes from Ingmar Bergmans works. That lead her to be cast in the play "Kungamötet at Halmstad Slott 1619" as the romantic lead, Line, in the summer of 2019.