Juliette Kenn De Balinthazy

Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy was born in New York City. Her father is a photographer, born in Morocco and is of Haitian, Taino and Hungarian descent, her namesake comes from her Hungarian grandfather who fled Europe for the Caribbean after WW2. Her mother is a psychotherapist and first generation Filipina/Chinese/Spanish descent. Juliette grew up in an immigrant, multi-cultural household with two younger brothers; overhearing her elders speaking Haitian Creole, French, Tagalog and Spanish while being raised in Connecticut. She is fluent in French. In 2019, she graduated from the Drama Division of Juilliard School with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Acting. She has traveled across the world on road trips, backpacking trips (and briefly hitchhiking) in a search to find peace, placement and harmony in the natural world. She is interested in environmental rights, indigenous rights, educational outreach in arts and athletics as a means of connectivity and uplift. She is curating the role of Phiona, a film trilogy under the direction of Sharon Chang and Monihan Monihan. Her feature film debut is as Lex in Trim Season, a thriller set to release in 2021 directed by Ariel Vida. She interviewed the Laru Beya Surf Collective and wrote a piece for Teen Vogue on environmental racism and surfing in Rockaway Beach, Queens where she enjoys surfing and running.