Arlen Aguayo-Stewart
Arlen Aguayo-Stewart is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film Roads in February , for which she won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film. From 2021 to 2022, Aguayo-Stewart starred in the hit Freeform show Motherland: Fort Salem, as Nicte Batan. Her Instagram bio notes that she prefers “any pronouns”.
Roads in February was her first-ever starring role in a film. She previously had small supporting roles in film and television, and played the lead role in a stage production of Sarah Carlsen's play Unseamly. Alongside Deborah Drakeford, Carlos González-Vío, Ryan Hollyman, Andre Sills and Aviva Armour-Ostroff, she was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding Ensemble in 2019 for ARC Stage's production of Stef Smith's play Human Animals.