Görel Elisabeth Crona (born 23 August 1959) is a Swedish film director, actress and singer/songwriter.

She grew up in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and moved back to Sweden to attend college and study at the Birkagårdens folkhögskolas theater-line.

[1][2] In 1978, she received her first major lead in the theater role of Eleonora in August Strindberg's drama Easter at the Strindbergsmuseet.

[3] In 1980, Görel Crona was admitted into the two-year theater education in New York City at SUNY Purchase.

Her big breakthrough was in the SVT television series Varuhuset where she played the ex-prostitute "Ylva" between 1987 and 1988.