Nadia's exotic looks are from her mixed Swedish-Persian background. Her father was the Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin (1933-1993). Her mother, Fary, whose background is Persian, is an interior decorator. Nadia speaks Swedish, Farsi, French, Italian, Russian and English

Nadia appeared on Days of our Lives in the contracted-role of 'Chloe Lane' beginning in November 1999, and her character was placed in the middle of the most heated and contested love triangles on the show (Broe vs. Phloe).

Since working with Days of our Lives, Nadia has also appeared in such primetime shows as Jake in Progress starring John Stamos, Complete Savages starring Keith Carradine, Erik von Detten, and Vincent Ventresca, and Sex, Love & Secrets starring Denise Richards and Eric Balfour. She also starred in a Marriage Undone, a film short that was featured in the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the Pacific Palisades Film Festival in 2002-2003.

Nadia just recently shot an episode of Out of Practice, and is set to begin filming the feature film, If I Had Known I was a Genius which will star Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Pink.