Lorna Balfour

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Lorna Balfour
Born
Alma mater The University of Utah
Occupation(s)Television Personality, Actress, Producer
Awards Emmy Award

Lorna Gabrielle Balfour is an American Emmy Award-winning producer and journalist. She is Caribbean-American, with both of her parents hailing from the West Indian country of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Early life and education

Raised in Salt Lake City, Balfour attended private liberal arts institution, The Waterford School. [1]

Balfour then attended The University of Utah, where she created her own interdisciplinary bachelor's degree. Her studies focused mainly on broadcasting, production, and marketing. She graduated May 5, 2016. [2]

Career

Balfour had roles in productions filmed in Salt Lake City, such as Touched By An Angel, Everwood, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and a few other Disney Channel movies.

KSL-TV is the station where Balfour spent time working as a weekend news producer and reporter. Balfour reported on the on-air segment of ‘Your Life Your Health’ [3] and wrote articles for the KSL 5 website’s news features. [4] [5]

Balfour worked at NBC Sports as an Associate Producer for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. On May 10, 2017, Balfour earned an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage" [6] [7] for the "Games of the XXXI Olympiad". [8]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryNominated WorkResult
2017 Emmy Awards Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage Games of the XXXI Olympiad Won

Filmography

Television

TitleYearRoleNotes
ActressProducer
2016 Rio Olympics: Games of the XXXI Olympiad 2016NoYes20 Episodes
Everwood 2003YesNo8 Episodes
Touched By An Angel 2001YesNo1 Episode

Film

TitleYearRoleNotes
ActressProducer
High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008YesNo
Hatching Pete 2009YesNo

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