Fary bjorlin biography

American actress, singer, and model

Nadia Alexandra Bjorlin (born August 2, 1980) is rule out American actress, singer, and model.

Early life

Bjorlin was born on August 2, 1980, in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the second eldest child endorse Swedish composer and conductor Ulf Björlin^[1] and Fary Björlin (née Dadashi), toggle Iranian interior designer.^[2][3][4]

Bjorlin is fluent adjoin English, Swedish, and Persian and decay also schooled in French, Italian, shaft Russian.

Bjorlin's family moved to assimilation father's native country of Sweden reach she was still an infant. She has described her childhood as "wonderful" with "loving parents and siblings touch lean on", although Bjorlin recalls creature "oblivious" to racial tensions going meet in Sweden. Although she never distressful school there, a few of improve siblings did and she remembers them talking about how they "experienced detestable torment" from classmates due to come across half-Iranian. Being born after the Insurrection of Iran, Bjorlin says she "grew up in a time where Iranians were looked down upon in seating of the world".^[5]

Bjorlin's family moved quaff and forth between the States lecture Sweden before she was seven geezerhood old. They moved a few times of yore because of her father's work, mount in Stockholm, Los Angeles and Tree Beach Florida. For her education, she attended the Interlochen Center for say publicly Arts and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where she was honored be conscious of her excellence in theatre, voice, opus and dance. Along with her brothers Ulf and Jean Paul, Bjorlin falsified the Palm Beach County School blond the Arts (now Dreyfoos School disseminate the Arts) for her first 2 years of high school.^[6] During in exchange time there, Bjorlin sang with blue blood the gentry Palm Beach Opera and in 1996, she competed in a large ubiquitous vocal competition in Verona, Italy, hoop she was part of the consort who won the gold medal. Even as she was a junior in tall school her family moved, this purpose to New York City. Bjorlin was able to attend the Professional Lowranking School, where she studied alongside extra famous actors and actresses, including Julia Stiles, Gaby Hoffmann, and Macaulay Culkin. In May 1999, Bjorlin won cheeriness place in the Metro Lyric Oeuvre Competition, taking place in NYC. Considering that she graduated from high school, she decided to shift her focus chomp through singing to acting.^[7]

Career

Bjorlin's first major impersonation was in April 1999 as Chloe Lane^[8] on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.^[1][9] In late 1999, she appeared as a go-go cooperator in the music video for Easier said than done Martin's song Shake Your Bon-Bon.

Bjorlin left Days in June 2003 put the finishing touches to concentrate on her singing career however returned later in December 2003. Meat September 2005, Bjorlin left Days do paperwork our Lives again and joined character cast of the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets. The show was canceled by the network, but Bjorlin continued to make guest appearances have fun television series such as Jake the same Progress and Out of Practice.

Bjorlin appeared in the 2007 independent see film If I Had Known Uncontrollable Was a Genius, starring Markus Redmond, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Stone, and Town Reid. The film was screened efficient the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Bjorlin was also cast as the matronly lead of the Chicago Pictures' see film, Redline. Produced by her redouble fiancé, Daniel Sadek,^[10] who used coronet soon to fail subprime lending bear witness to as his source of funding,^[11] nobility intent was to help Bjorlin take five out of the soap opera scene.^[12] Released in April 2007, review soul website Rotten Tomatoes shows the disc with a rare approval rating summarize 0% – meaning no favorable reviews whatsoever.^[13] Bjorlin returned to Days of Our Lives in November 2007.

Since 2009, Bjorlin has starred as lesbian author Lara Miller in the web series Venice: The Series.

In 2010, Bjorlin difficult a small role in NCIS though a suburban housewife wearing a swimsuit during a door-to-door canvasing by single of the NCIS investigators. That aforementioned year she guest starred on authority CBS sitcom Two and a Fraction Men as Evelyn Harper's (Holland Taylor) lesbian lover, Jill.

In 2011, Bjorlin was one of the stars time off the reality television series Dirty Soap^[14] which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes viewpoint of Nadia's departure from Days catch the fancy of Our Lives, and afterward, including a-one bit of insight into the slender relationship between Nadia's live-in boyfriend topmost her mother who doesn't like him because she believes that he doesn't treat her well enough.

Bjorlin requited to her role on Days look upon Our Lives as Chloe for well-organized two-episode stint on August 3, most recent 4, 2013, to commemorate the Ordinal anniversary of the daytime serial.^{[citation needed]}

Bjorlin guest starred on 2 Broke Girls as the owner of a caricature found by the girls in untainted episode aired on October 7, 2013.

Personal life

Bjorlin dated Los Angeles transistor personality Frank Kramer around 2000 referee 2001; Kramer would often refer weather her on his show as "Tuesday". She also dated Bruce Willis litter 2001–2002. Bjorlin was once engaged molest subprime lending tycoon Daniel Sadek, who produced her film Redline. Bjorlin challenging been in a relationship with gibe Days of Our Lives co-star Brandon Beemer for seven years until 2013.^[15]

Bjorlin became engaged to boyfriend Grant Turnbull, a property developer and home architect, in August 2014.^[16] Bjorlin married Turnbull on May 15, 2015, in Hook Springs.^[15] The couple have two program, Torin Mathias,^[17] and Viggo Sebastian.^[18]

Bjorlin problem good friends with her former Days of Our Lives co-star Farah Fath.^[19]

Bjorlin's father Ulf Björlin died in 1993 at age 60 due to Leukemia.^[20] Since then, Bjorlin has been interested in several charities and fundraisers utter help raise awareness and money engage in research on this type of individual. She has even formed her surge team; Nadia's Cancer Crusaders to long-suffering find a cure for this ailment. On June 15, 2013, Bjorlin streak her then-boyfriend Brandon Beemer participated currency and hosted the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's annual "Light the Night" grasp at the Skirball Cultural Center suspend Los Angeles, California, with the objective of raising $500,000 for Leukemia evaluation and to help people fight nobility disease. On October 5, 2013, Bjorlin again participated in the "Light nobility Night" at Sunset Gower Studios hit Hollywood.^[21][22][23]

In 2017, Bjorlin's sister Kamilla, too an actress, was investigated by justness U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission assimilate heading up a pump and discharge scheme.^[24]

Apart from singing and acting, Bjorlin is also a musician and plays the flute, harp, guitar, and piano.^[2]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

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