Nicole C. Page

Nicole Christine Page was born May 25, 1988, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA to Susan Cooper and, veterinary oncology professor, Dr. Rodney Page. Nicole started voice, dance, and acting training at the age of 10 in Ithaca, NY and as a teen was invited to the prestigious Actor's Workshop of Ithaca, a Meisner studio founded by Eliza VanCort and Katie Spallone, She was also a part of the Ithaca-based children's professional character-education singing group - Vitamin L. In 2006, Nicole attended Brown University where she joined the belly dance team, Amira, majoring in Russian and International Relations. She studied abroad in Russia three times, twice during undergrad and once more through a US State Department scholarship while a graduate student at the University of Washington Seattle, where she received an MA in Slavic Linguistics. Pivoting to software programming and corporate learning and development in 2012, in 2015 Nicole created her own burlesque performance art character while studying at Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque in Seattle. Later, she certified as a yoga instructor, publishing her first book "Bite-Size Yoga: A Better Way to Beat Burnout." In 2019, while studying Kaula Tantra yoga and shamanism in Ecuador, Nicole decided to return full-time to performance, so she developed a musical one-woman show of her life story as an artist-in-residence at Durga's Tiger School in Tumbaco, Ecuador under the mentorship of German directors Iris Disse and Christoph Baumann. After Ecuador, she set up a home base with family in Colorado, where she signed with Wilhelmina Denver and trained in scene study with Todd Babcock of Babcock Studios, on-camera training with Krista Upton Gano and Laura Carson of the Working Artist Group, and dialect coaching with Chris T. Lang as well as an intern for Andrea Caban with the Knight-Thompson Speechwork council. After workshopping a surrealist art film representation of her one-woman show, multiple horror sizzle reels for director James Seale, and a proof-of-concept dark comedy web series with friend/creative collaborator Tyler Laracca, Nicole booked her first lead in a feature film from contacts made during the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Nicole starrer in her first feature, Todos, in Baja California Sur, Mexico from 2020-2021, where she continues to live part-time, rotating between Todos Santos, Colorado, and LA as needed. She is of English, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Latvian descent and speaks English, Russian, French, and Spanish. Her goal is to continue to work on international award-winning productions with talented directors and production crews. Her childhood favorite films include Jim Hensen/David Bowie's the Labyrinth (1986), the Beatle's Yellow Submarine (1965), and the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Her female actor role models include Jennifer Connelly, Uma Thurman, and Glenn Close.