Nicole Alejandra Wallace del Barrio (Spanish pronunciation: [niˈkol aleˈxandɾa ˈwalase ðel ˈbarjo] ; born 22 March 2002) is a Spanish-American actress. After her television debut in the teen series Skam España, she has starred in the films My Fault (2023), Your Fault (2024), One Year and One Day (2025), and Our Fault (2025), and the miniseries Raising Voices (2024).
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Early and personal life
Nicole Alejandra Wallace del Barrio was born in Madrid on 22 March 2002. She holds Spanish and U.S. citizenship, and her father is American and her mother Spanish. Because of this, Wallace is bilingual, and can speak both Spanish and English fluently. She grew up learning how to play the viola and piano, and took singing lessons from an early age. Wallace has also practiced hip-hop, funk, and modern dance for more than eight years. She also has an older sister, Chloé, who is a director, writer, and photographer, who directed the Netflix limited series A Perfect Story and the Wattpad adaptation film Mala influencia.
Wallace also studied psychology through a distance-learning program at a university for a year, while continuing her career as an actress.
Career
Acting (2008; 2017–present)
Wallace got her start in short films, first appearing in the 2008 horror short Excision in a small role, opposite actress Tessa Ferrer of Grey's Anatomy fame. She continued working in short films, appearing in Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam as Vicky, co-starring with horror film legend Robert Englund, best known for portraying Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise.
In 2018, Wallace then rose to fame after being cast as Nora Grace in the Movistar+ series, Skam España, based on the Norwegian teen series, Skam. The third season of the show centered around her character, Nora, and the character of Viri, played by Celia Monedero. Nora and Viri's season, in particular, was awarded the "Cima TV Award for Equality" from the FesTVal de Vitoria for how it promoted themes of feminism and empowerment to a youth audience.
Since her breakout role as Nora, Wallace has been featured in many publications, such as SModa, Glamour, and Vogue.
She has continued this success into other acting roles as well, starring in the TVE 2021 drama, Parot, and the 2023 Prime Video romance film, My Fault as Noah, who is drawn into a forbidden romance with her stepbrother, Nick, who's involved in the dangerous street racing scene. Nick is played by Wallace's Skam España co-star, Gabriel Guevara. My Fault is based on a popular novel series originally published on Wattpad, called Culpables, by Mercedes Ron. According to Amazon Prime Video, My Fault attained the highest opening three-day viewership figures of any non-English local original film in the history of the service after its release in June 2023. Prime Video then confirmed in July 2023 that they would produce two more movies based on the final two books in Mercedes Ron's trilogy, Your Fault and Our Fault, confirming that Wallace would reprise her role as Noah in these two films.
Your Fault and Our Fault began concurrent production on August 31, 2023.
The same month, Wallace appeared in the Steffy Argelich film, Vera, as Vera, a teenager discovering her sexuality as a young man comes to stay with her and her mother on an island retreat, away from his responsibilities as a lawyer and a son.
Music (2020–present)
In 2020, Wallace signed with Universal Music and Sony Music, releasing her first single, Bella, in February 2021. Bella debuted as one of the Top 50 viral songs in Spain that year, which was quickly followed up by singles Devuélveme and Impatient Eyes. A fourth single, Cuídate, was released in 2022.