Nicole Kian-Sadighi

Nicole, the daughter of two prominent Iranian journalists, was born in Tehran, Iran until her parents were assigned to the United Kingdom as London correspondents when she was just two years old, where she remained and grew up in a little town called Richmond upon Thames. And it was those little early years that she remembers wanting to grow up to be an actress.<br><br>At the age of nine she auditioned for her school's rendition of The Wizard of Oz and landed the role of Dorothy where she threw herself into the role with all her creative might. From that moment on she wanted to relive those magical moments on the stage and soon joined the local church theater and got involved in amateur dramatics at local community theater companies.<br><br>Once she graduated from high school, she went on to obtain her A levels in Business Studies, English Literature &amp; Language and Art, after which she attended Kingston University, and received her BA in Fine Arts with Hons.<br><br>Hungry to satisfy her creative desire to act, she applied for performing arts school at Brooklands College, the only place she was able to obtain a grant to attend. At the end of her 3 year performing arts academy, she graduated with distinctions and merits. Now armed with a grounding in Stanislavski, Chekov, and the Alexander Technique, Nicole was ready to take her career to the next level.<br><br>She wanted to learn everything there was about the industry and started her film career as a volunteer PA for film and television production companies. She quickly gained a positive reputation as an upbeat, super friendly worker who wasn't afraid to go the extra mile. Soon production companies took notice and Nicole found herself being headhunted by "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Producer Georgia Masters, whom she'd worked with previously on the BAFTA nominated "One Night Stand" starring Jemma Redgrave and James Purefoy. During this time she accumulated the experience and hands on education she needed to follow her passion in the movie industry business as an actress and a writer.<br><br>Several plays and a couple of independent films later, she soon came to the realization that her future was in Los Angeles. Since moving to L.A. she began to see the fruits of her labor, landing a lead road in the independent short "When the Lights go Down" and more recently a pilot "S.O.S I'm a Woman".<br><br>Being a passionate advocate of many causes, Nicole is keenly committed to exposing human rights violations across the globe and is often approached as a keynote spokesperson on behalf of numerous non-profit human rights and nongovernmental organization. She not only has an artistic flair as a creative writer but has been a freelance writer for many leading publications and newspapers, for a number of years.<br><br>Nicole has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, AP, Paris Match, Christian Science Monitor, Radio Vaticana, Le Monde, France24, Politica Online, CCTV and CSpan to name but a few.

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