Episode 39: Nicole Chamoun (Actor)

Chookas

Nicole Chamoun, is from the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne who found her self in love with the craft of acting. We were very lucky and fortunate to have an actor of her calibre on today. Nicole is best known for her for playing a Iraqi refugee Zahra Al Bayati in SBS's critically acclaimed Safe Harbour, for which she was nominated both for a Logie for Most Outstanding Supporting Actress and an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama; as well as the series lead role of Amirah Al-Amir in On The Ropes, directed by Shannon Murphy, for Lingo Pictures and SBS; and for which Nicole was nominated for the Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress. Nicole's other leading TV roles include Laila in Romper Stomper for Stan network, Afina in the ABC's The Dr Blake Mysteries, Selma in City Homicide for the Seven Network, the comedy series Ronny Chieng International Student and in Esben Storm's Kick for SBS, playing a lead role, Layla. On stage Nicole has appeared as Jomana in Tales Of A City To The Sea for La Mama Theatre which was nominated for a Green Room Award. With such a great journey thus far it was a privilege to have Nicole come and speak to us about some of her roles and also further educate us about being in the industry. We also touched on some of her challenges that she had to face and how she overcome them. Nicole thank you so much for coming past on the podcast and sharing your story and supporting our podcast. We also would like to let the audience know that we had video issue so there is no video version of this podcast. We deeply apologies and thank Nicole for being so generous with her time. LEAD WITH LOVE (Nicole Chamoun). CHOOKAS!!!