Nina Lauren

Nina completed a BFA and MFA in Theater at Laval University, has acted in many Shakespeare plays in the Connecticut College Arboretum and performed in numerous productions at the National Puppetry Conferences at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She transitioned into film to work as Jennifer Lawrence’s stand-in, hand and body double in several X-Men movies. Her extensive training in puppetry and movement includes workshops in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Race

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However,…

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Fluent in French and English.

Writer and translator.Was awarded 2017's Best New Comedy by The Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Started ice skating at age 3. Finished first at the Junior World Synchronized Skating Championships.

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