Nicole Schoen

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Nicole is an Australian actor of German and Filipino heritage. She is passionate about multilingual and multicultural stories in an Australian setting. Raised in Adelaide, in an immigrant household, Nicole was surrounded by many languages, cultures, flavours and attitudes… both opposing and complimentary! Steadily on a journey to discover more about herself through performance and producing, Nicole is eager to work in screen projects with diverse scope. She has trained with Kim Krejus and Iain Sinclair of 16th Street, Adrian Barnes, Rob MacPherson, Jamie Harding and Don Kountouris, Casting Directors; Angela Heesom, Lou Heesom, Ally Reynolds, and Micaeley Gibson. Nicole’s debut screen role was Ruby in Conor Mercury and Ben Golotta of Repeater Productions’ short film ‘Lean’ (2022) starring Harry Greenwood and Nicholas Hope. She appears in two of Richard Coburn’s Art films ‘Future Commissioners’ for MOD. Exhibition space, and ‘Anomalous’ which screened exclusively at ILA on Light Square. In late 2023, she appeared as Shelley in ‘Quirky Turkey’ directed by Kirk Cameron and DOP Kris Jenkinson for the 48 Hour Project. Earlier this year, Nicole worked on Karu-Karu’s series ‘Wishes’ supported by Screen Australia. She coached the main teenage voice actor, and voiced the support role of Teacher. More recently, Nicole portrayed Alice in Manuel Ashman’s short film ‘7 Minutes to Rice’. Currently Nicole is working on an independent feature based in the Riverland of South Australia, with the working title ‘Orange Boy’.