Nicole Elizabeth Berger

Nicole Elizabeth Berger is a multi-talented actress, model, singer and pianist, known for her roles in the films Clover (2020), All At Once (2016), Prescient (2015), The Longest Week (2014) and Goldberg, P.I. (2011). Nicole recently filmed The Place of No Words, Runt, Ali's Realm and Five Teenagers Walk Into a Bar, all of which are completing post-production and are anticipated for release in 2020. This brings her to nine movie credits, including five with major roles. Nicole was born on November 27, 2003 in New York, New York to parents, Dr. Harvey J. Berger and Chrysanthi C. Berger. Her father is a entrepreneur, physician-scientist, life-sciences executive and philanthropist, with an M.D. degree from Yale School of Medicine. Her mother is a philanthropist and classical violinist with advanced degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and was concertmaster at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. Nicole began studying piano and violin at age 5 and began her career in modeling and print advertising at a young age, having worked for Toys "R" Us and Saks Fifth Avenue before appreciating her love of acting and singing. She has experience in commercials and voice-overs and enjoys film and theatre. Nicole is studying in the Drama Studio at Fiorello H. LaGuardia HIgh School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. After discovering her passion for acting, Nicole starred in several films. In 2016, Nicole was cast as the lead in All At Once, which tells the story of a young artist who takes in his best friend's daughters after they died in the 9/11 attacks. Nicole plays the younger of the two daughters, Grace. The film premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in 2016 and was released in March 2018. In 2017, Nicole filmed Clover, a comedic crime drama and played the movie namesake, a young girl named Clover. The film was released in April 2020. In 2018, Nicole played one of the lead roles, Esmeralda, an enchanted fairy, in the fantasy-reality film, The Place of No Words. This film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019. Nicole also completed filming Indie thriller, Runt, in which she played the lead, Cecily, opposite Disney-star, Cameron Boyce, and the film premiered at the Mammoth Film Festival in February 2020. Most recently, she starred in the short-film, Ali's Realm, a stunning story in which Nicole played Ali, a teenager who stands up to bullying and deals with the death of her closest friend. The film highlights a 7' tall alien, Charlie, who walks through the streets and parks of New York City along with his dear friend, Ali. This film will be premiering at the New York Film Festival in May 2020. She also starred in the short film, Five Teenagers Walk Into a Bar, a current-day story of high school students lost in the desert and coming across a very unexpected environment and unusual people. The Place of No Words received the award for best film by the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy, and Runt received the audience award at Mammoth Film Festival for best feature-length film, and its director/writer received recognition as best director by the Festival. Nicole has performed in renditions of The Nutcracker and played one of the lead roles as Miss Honey in Matilda and Maria in West Side Story in a Palm Beach Community Theater. She has training in acting, singing, ballet, and theatre, including studying musical theater at StarStruck Academy in Florida (with Jennifer and Peter Jones), acting with Susan Batson in New York, and vocal training with Badiene Magaziner and Trapper Felides in New York. She has studied piano for many years at with Bow-Dien Pow (Mannes College in New York) and ballet with Ina Haybaeck-Rogers (AMDA College of the Performing Arts). At LaGuardia, she works closely in all aspects of drama and film with Naima Moffett-Warden, her lead drama teacher. In addition to her passion for music, she is dedicated to helping animals, along with her younger sister, Isabella Grace Berger. She is an avid reader, enjoys the study of astrophysics and anthropology when she is not immersed in theater and reading contemporary plays. Nicole and Isabella recently took up skiing while at Mammoth mountain and now have a new sport to keep them even more active.