Sarah Nicolazzo

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS 2025 Westgate World Premier at Melbourne International Film Festival 2022 Melbourne Webfest The Survivors (ABC) Official Selection 2022 AFTRS: The Directors Journey with Elissa Down Course Completion ABC 2020 Fresh Start Innovation Fund Recipient REVIEWS: "Sarah Nicolazzo dominates the film, and does not waste the spotlight. There is a realism to Netta, and an angry and brittle quality that feels well grounded in emotional truth. She does a particularly strong job emotionally linking Netta to her son Julian...If Westgate feels like a cut above a typical Australian urban drama, and I believe it does, it is because of their performances and Ortega’s sensitive direction of them." - Fiction Machine, 2025 "Nicolazzo presents Ortega’s new benchmark for sharpened characterisation, as her fierceness at the world around her and stubbornness is palpable to witness." - Filmink, 2025 "Westgate is a quietly intense character drama that honours working parents whose days feel like entire weeks. Sarah Nicolazzo’s superb central performance anchors the exacting but effective characterisation, telling a culturally and temporally precise story that ends up speaking a lot of truth even for those outside of its margins. It’s an empathetic and understanding depiction of the effects of grief and being cornered by circumstance, conveying disturbance as smoothly as it does hope and love." - Filmink, 2025 "Finally, some southern-European female blood kicking goals on stage (The Apology Tour). But not in the typical “wog” comedy way that degrades women and keeps us behind the kitchen sink. Sarah sits in the ranks of a few women in this space trying – pushing – to move things forward, not winding things back. Sarah has it all. Spunk, charm – she’ll have you laughing so hard just by the way she pouts her lips. But she’s got the smarts to back it up." - The Plus Ones by Koraly Dimitraidis "Sarah Nicolazzo (in Q44's Savage in Limbo) is the shining star of this production as Linda Rotunda, the local girl that all the men know. Her boyfriend has just announced to her he wants to see ugly girls and she is just a little distraught. Nicolazzo delivers a brilliant performance and the excellent physicality and subtle facial expressions she uses to portray Linda are highly natural." - Theatre Press by Myron My "Sarah Nicolazzo (Linda) is fabulous as the sexpot who is shattered that she might be replaced by “Ugly” women. Her vulnerability and lack of self worth are palpable, and her Bronx accent is the most impressive I have ever heard." - Stage Whispers by Coral Drouyn AWARDS Winner Best Actress (The Holiest One) - New Jersey Webfest 2019 Winner Best Ensemble (The Holiest One) - Sydney Webfest 2019 Winner Best Actress (The Holiest One) - ASIA Web Awards, 2019 AWARD NOMINATIONS Best Dramatic Performance (The Holiest One) - Minnesota Webfest 2019 Best Actress (The Holiest One) - New Zealand Webfest 2019. Best Actress (The Holiest One) - Seoul Webfest 2019. Best Actress (Maddalena) - NYC Web Fest, 2018.