Shalom Brune-Franklin is a British-Australian actress, known for her roles in the British series The Nation (2017), the Australian series Bad Moms (2019) and the American Netflix series Cursed (2020).
Wiki/Biography
Shalom Brune-Franklin was born on Thursday, August 18, 1994 (26 years old in 2020) in St Albans, England. Her star sign is Leo. At the age of fourteen, she and her family moved to Mooraloo, Australia. She attended Ocean Reef Senior High School; while studying there, she chose drama as her major. She enrolled at Edith Cowan University to study journalism, but after visiting the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she decided to study acting. Shalom auditioned for WAAPA and began studying acting there. During her degree, she was awarded the Chris Edmonds Performing Arts Scholarship, which was established by WAAPA graduate Hugh Jackman (an Australian-British actor).
appearance
Height: 5′ 7″
Eye color: dark brown
Hair color: Black
Family, Race, and Relationships
Her mother is Ingrid Brunet, who is Mauritian, and her father is Philip Franklin, who is Thai. Her father was an electrician who later moved to Western Australia to work as a chef. She also has a younger brother named Syme.
Shalom Brune-Franklin and her family
She is currently dating a producer with whom she worked on the TV series Doctor Who (2016-17).
Shalom Brune-Franklin and her boyfriend
Profession
She started her career by acting in short films; in 2013, she played the role of “Jennifer” in the short film “Dinner Date”.
She has appeared in the short films Tryptophan (2015) and Swiss Avalanche (2016). In 2016, she made her television debut in the Australian TV series Barracuda, playing the role of “Leanne”.
She has also appeared in the Australian TV series Doctor Who (2016-17) and Bad Mothers (2019). She made her screen debut in the British TV series The State (2017) as “Umm Khulthum”.
She has appeared in the British TV series Our Girl (2017-2018) and Line of Duty (2020). She made her American television debut as Igraine in Netflix’s Cursed (2020).
Shalom Brune-Franklin, Cursed (2020)
She made her Australian film debut in Otherlife (2017) playing the role of “Coder #2”.
She made her American film debut in 2017 as “College Girl #1” in Thor: Ragnarok.
Shalom Brune-Franklin (Thor: Ragnarok) (2017)
She voices the character of “Seahorse” in the British-Finnish animated series Moominvalley (2020).
Favorite things
- Starring: Ruth Negga, Thandie Newton, Viola Davis
- Podcasts: The Vanished by Marrisa Jones, Invisibillia by Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin
- Book: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Travel destination: Bahamas
Facts/Trivia
- She is a sports fanatic and her sports coach trained her to be a professional 800m runner for the London Olympics in 2012. As a student, she also served as captain of the netball and basketball teams, a gymnast and a member of the school cheerleading team.
- When she was a student, she won the school drama award for her outstanding performance.
- Acting was not her first choice, in fact, she did not consider it a practical career option. Talking about it, she said,
When I started acting I didn’t even know who Shakespeare was – I’m from London, which is embarrassing, but it’s true. But now I love it.
- She has also appeared in the following theatre productions: The Grapes of Wrath, Blood Wedding, Playboy of the Western World, Macbeth and Girl Shut Up.
- She was one of the finalists for the 2017 Heath Ledger Scholarship, established by the Australian Film Institute, a non-profit foundation supporting Australian actors working in the United States, in memory of the late Heath Ledger.
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