She played Lottie in a -directed staging of
Don Juan in Soho at
Stockholm City Theatre in 2007. The production received a generally negative review from in
Dagens Nyheter; she found Nasiri's character overtly stereotypical and unconvincing. The following year, she appeared in a theatre student graduation programme. In 2011, Nasiri was featured in
Yvonne, prinsessa av Burgund at
Backa Theatre in Gothenburg. She starred in a
Sveriges Radio P1 drama
Någonas heder, which was broadcast on 21 January 2012 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the
murder of Fadime Sahindal. Nasiri played Zahra, an ambitious high school student who finds herself threatened by family upheaval and
honour culture after being seen with a male classmate. That March, she was in 's adaptation of
August Strindberg's
A Dream Play, which was presented on the Klara stage of Stockholm City Theatre. It used an experimental structure, blending Strindberg's original text with real-life sociological interviews and new fictional elements. Critic deemed the production a "masterpiece" (
mästerverket) and a "miraculously vibrant performance" (
mirakulöst levande föreställning). She also appeared in
Utopia 2012, another experimental, interview-based Andersson stage production at Backa Theatre in October. In 2013, Stockholm City Theatre staged
Jag ringer mina bröder, written by
Jonas Hassen Khemiri and directed by
Farnaz Arbabi. The play, which explores themes of racial profiling and alienation in the wake of the
2010 Stockholm bombings, featured Nasiri as the protagonist's love interest, Valeria. Her performance received praise from of
Dagens Nyheter. She also appeared in the premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's play
Ungefär lika med at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She played the grieving wife of a murdered fertility doctor in the third season of
The Bridge (2015). From 2016 to 2017, she was a primary member of the ensemble cast of ''
. She appeared as Harper in a 2018 stage production of Angels in America at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. She had a minor role in Quicksand
(2019) as a compassionate prison guard. In 2021, she made her directorial debut with a production of De livrädda'' at the
National Swedish Touring Theatre. She played Maryam in
Opponent, a 2023 drama written and directed by
Milad Alami. Nasiri won a
Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for this performance. She dedicated the award to political prisoners in Iran, and had written the names of 71 of them on her upper body. Later that year, she played Polly Peachum in a Swedish-language adaptation of
The Threepenny Opera. She appeared in the 11th season of
The Sandhamn Murders as a new police chief in 2025. == Acting credits ==