Biography

Nicole Elizabeth Berger is a multi-talented actress, model, singer, and musician known for her roles in the films Black Spines (2024), Runt (2020), Clover (2020), The Place of No Words (2019), All At Once (2016), Prescient (2015), The Longest Week (2014) and Goldberg, P.I. (2011). Nicole is also known for her lead roles in three short films, Killing Myself for the Industry (2024), Ali's Realm (2020) and Five Teenagers Walk into a Bar (2019), which premiered at film festivals in the past several years. This brings Nicole to 12 movie credits.

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 passion for acting and music. She has experience in commercials and voice-overs and enjoys film and theatre. Nicole studied in the Drama Studio at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts in New York, NY and graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, MA in 2022. Nicole also attended the Yale University Summer Drama Conservatory for Actors (2021) and the Margie Haber Studio, Hollywood, CA (2022). She is an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University with a concentration in Theater, Dance, and Media.

After discovering her passion for the performing arts, 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 on the World Trade Center towers. Nicole plays the younger of the two daughters, Grace. The film premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in 2016 and was released on streaming services in March 2018.

In 2017, Nicole filmed Clover, a comedic crime drama and played the movie's 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 the Indie thriller, Runt, in which she played the lead, Cecily, opposite Disney-star, Cameron Boyce. The film premiered at the Mammoth Film Festival in February 2020 and was released in select theaters in the US and on streaming channels in October 2020. Nicole played a supporting role in Black Spines, a horror thriller, which premiered at the Telluride Horror Film Festival in October 2024.

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 foot tall alien, Charlie, who walks through the streets and parks of New York City along with his dear friend, Ali. This film premiered 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. Most recently, she had the lead role of Mickey in the short film about the challenges of the film industry, Killing Myself for the Industry, which will be released at film festivals in 2025.

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. In 2021, Nicole was chosen as the Best Teen Actress in a Streaming Film released in 2021 by the Young Artist Academy Award for her work in Clover. She also received recognition with an Award of Excellence for her role as lead actress in Ali's Realm, which was chosen as the 2020 winner of the Best Shorts Competition in Los Angeles, CA.

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 studied acting with Susan Batson and Stacey Pianko, vocal and musical theater with Trapper Felides, Jennifer Yormak, and Peter Jones, and ballet with Ina Haybaeck-Rogers (AMDA College of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA). At LaGuardia, she worked closely in all aspects of drama and film with Naima Moffett-Warden, her lead drama instructor. At Harvard, Nicole has had the privilege of studying with renown artists and directors, such as Diane Paulus, Ryan McKittrick, Stew Stewart, Shira Milikowsky, Remo Airaldi, Erika Bailey, and Tania Bruguera. She is also a member of the long-standing Harvard a Capella group, the Harvard Callbacks, which is competing in the 2025 ICCA global tournament.

In addition to her passion for the arts, she is dedicated to helping animals along with her younger sister, Isabella Grace Berger. Nicole is an avid reader, enjoys studying astronomy when she is not immersed in movies and reading contemporary plays, is accomplished in water skiing and other water sports, and loves to travel. She loves the serenity and beauty of the outdoors.

Keep up with the latest about Nicole on Instagram (@OfficialNicoleBerger), Facebook (Nicole Elizabeth Berger), and X (@NicoleEBerger) and the Callbacks on Instagram (@harvardcallbacks). Updated as of November 27, 2024.

- IMDb mini biography by: Nicole's PR Team