Nicole Leroux was born on March 21st, 1975 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the age of five she moved to Richmond, British Columbia where her parents put her into the French Immersion program. Nicole successfully graduated high school a bilingual honours student.

During high school, Nicole put her passion for the arts on hold and focused fully on sports. When graduation came, she was faced with the same problem as most teenagers: “What do I want to be when I grow up?”. It was either a professional basketball player or an actor. This next thought would change her life forever: “If I was 35 years old and never tried to make acting a career, I’d regret it for the rest of my life.”

With that, she was accepted into the professional theatre program at Studio 58 in Vancouver and deferred it for a year while studying arts at the University of British Columbia. She studied acting passionately until, at the age of 21, Nicole left Studio 58 for a solo trip around Europe. The purpose: rediscover her connection to the arts. She explored 11 countries in 4 months and never spent more than 3 days in any one city. In September of 1996, Nicole found herself back at UBC with a thirst for educating her brain.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Nicole left the continent once again, this time to study acting in Oxford, England at the prestigious Balliol College with BADA. Her studies in Oxford included learning the techniques of British Comedy and Shakespeare from some of England’s and the RSC’s finest actors and directors: Sir Ben Kingsley, Lynn Farleigh, Jane Lapotaire, John Barton, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Allan Rickman to name a few.

After leaving England, Nicole entered the professional world and in one short year after graduation was cast as Marianne in the 1999 Jessie award winning French production of Cloneage.PA. 2000 would see a national tour of Cloneage.PA which allowed Nicole to set up residence in Toronto to work opposite the infamous Mr T in the feature film Judgment. In 2001 Nicole focused on the independent theatre scene in Vancouver working on The Night Desk (WTC); Pyropornomania (Upintheair); Talking With (Barestage Prod.) as well as some indie short films including Acting Desperate; Eve; and Wet Paint (TV pilot).

2002 started off with a bang booking work in two Paramount feature films The Core (Hillary Swank, Aaron Eckhart) and Santa Clause 2 (Tim Allen). Then she was cast in Mary’s Wedding (Belfry; Vancouver Playhouse) and received rave reviews for her outstanding portrayal of Mary and Sergeant Flowerdew. Nicole’s British accent in Mary’s Wedding led to her discovery as one of Vancouver’s newest voice over actors. In four short months she worked on five different anime series including Galaxy Angel where she plays the feisty, love struck, over eating blonde bomb shell Ranpha Framboise (series lead).

We’re into the final months of 2004, and what a year. Nicole had the pleasure of originating two characters in two separate World Premieres of Canadian plays. In Omniscience (Western Theatre Conspiracy), Nicole played a soldier returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder, and in Rough Magic (The Belfry), Nicole had the daunting task of playing an aspiring actress from Brooklyn. Please go to the Press section of the website for review excerpts.

In August, Nicole had some great days on set for the Canadian television series Da Vinci’s Inquest. Following that she had the joy of working with Rolling Stone writer Ken Hegan on his new short film: Good Times: Vol. 1.

In October Nicole wrapped her 104th episode of the new anime series Galaxy Angel. There’s talk of a fifth season but for now that’s all she wrote. Galaxy Angel DVD’s are being released as we speak.

2005 starts off with a bang as Nicole returns to Theatre la seizieme with the World Premiere of Snowqueen, a one woman show debuting playwright Kathleen Oliver as a French playwright. The show runs at Studio 16 in Vancouver from January 27 – February 5th, 2005.