The famous Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir, also known as Ragga Ragnars is an Icelandic actress and former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a multiple-time Icelandic record holder in both long and short-course freestyle.
Ragnheiður made her Olympic debut, as Iceland’s youngest swimmer (aged 19), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She qualified for two swimming events by attaining B-standard entry times of 26.34 (50 m freestyle) and 56.74 (100 m freestyle). In the 100 m freestyle, Ragnheiður finished last in heat three and fortieth overall with a time of 58.47 seconds.
In the 50 m freestyle, Ragnheiður almost snared out of triumph in heat five by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Luxembourg’s Lara Heinz, finishing second and thirty-first overall in 26.36 seconds.
Ragnheiður has said that she always had a passion for acting and after retiring from swimming, decided to study acting. She took an 8-week Acting for Film course with New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, which she loved, and then enrolled in a one-year program.
She graduated in 2015. It was also announced in the 2020 Game Awards that she would star in an animated series based on the popular Studio Wildcard game Ark: Survival Evolved in 2022 playing the role of Queen Sigrid.
Ragga Ragnars husband
Ragga Ragnars was married to Atli Bjarnason, a business administrator, from 2013 to 2017. Their son was born in 2013
Ragga Ragnars children
Ragga Ragnars has one child.
Ragga Ragnars parents
I started swimming when I was 6 years old. My parents told me and my siblings we had to pick one sport to do and one instrument to learn. I picked swimming, her parent’s name is not known to the media.
Ragga Ragnars siblings
Ragga Ragnars has siblings.
