Clara Rugaard
Birthdate: Dec 5, 1997
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Clara Rugaard (birthname: Clara Rugaard-Larsen) was cast in her feature debut in director/co-writer Martin Miehe-Renard’s Danish family adventure, My African Adventure (2013), with Peter Mygind, Mathilde Hogh Kolben, and Lasse Guldberg Kamper, and produced by Michael Obel. Rugaard was the lead in the Danish-language voice cast of Disney’s Moana (2016) and the sequel, Moana 2 (2024), performing the title role in both.
Rugaard co-starred in director/writer Rebecca Daly’s Irish-Belgian-Danish-Dutch co-production, Good Favour (2018), with Alexandre Willaume, and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Rugaard joined the cast of director/writer Max Minghella’s musical drama, Teen Spirit (2018), starring Elle Fanning, Rebecca Hall, and Zlatko Buric, and released by Bleeker Street (U.S.) after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
Clara Rugaard starred in another musical, the Spain-U.K. co-production, Love Gets a Room/El amor en su lugar (2021), directed, co-written (with David Safier), and edited by Rodrigo Cortés, and then Rugaard co-starred with Lewis Pullman in director/co-writer Greg Björkman’s sci-fi romantic drama, Press Play (2022), with Matt Walsh and Danny Glover, and released to little business by The Avenue. Rugaard took on the role of Juliet in Juliet & Romeo (2025) director/writer/producer Timothy Scott Bogart’s contemporary musical version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, co-starring Jamie Ward (as Romeo), Jason Isaacs, Rupert Graves, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett and Derek Jacobi, and released by production company Briarcliff Entertainment.
Rugaard co-starred with Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen and Til Schweiger in the U.K.-backed WW2 drama, Desperate Journey (date to be announced), with Steven Berkoff and Sienna Guillory, directed by Annabel Jankel and written by Michael Radford. Then Rugaard took on the role of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley in the literary drama, Mary’s Monster (date to be announced), co-starring Sebastian De Souza (as Lord Byron), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (as Percy Shelley) and Kit Harington (as Frankenstein’s Creature) under Farren Blackburn’s direction for producers Fulwell 73 and Rose Pictures.
Personal life
Clara Rugaard was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, by her parents, a Danish-born father in the Royal Danish Navy, and her mother, born in Northern Ireland. Rugaard moved from Copenhagen to London when her father was stationed there by the Royal Dutch Navy, but when her parents returned to Copenhagen, Rugaard stayed in London to pursue a career in acting and singing. Rugaard graduated from the Arts Education Schools London in 2018, after performing with the Fairy Tale Theatre in Søborg, Denmark, as well as the Det Ny Teater and Tivoli’s Glass Hall in Copenhagen. Rugaard’s height is 5’ 7 ¼ ”.
Clara Rugaard Movies
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- 2025 |
Juliet & Romeo
asJuliet
Based on the real story that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, follows the greatest love story of all time, set as an original pop musical.
- 2019 |
Teen Spirit
asRoxy
A shy teenager dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. She enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. A spin on the Cinderella story.
Facts About Clara Rugaard
Danish Disney: Clara Rugaard became Disney’s go-to singing star in Denmark, first as the Danish-dubbed voice of Violetta for the Disney Channel’s Violetta, and then as Moana in the Danish-dubbed versions of both the original Moana and its sequel, Moana 2.
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