Nathalie Morris
Film Prize Jury
Nathalie is best known for playing the lead role Oly in the popular Stan series BUMP, for which she also co-wrote an episode for the final season. She recently starred in Josephine Stewart Te-Whiu’s New Zealand feature WE WERE DANGEROUS, which had its World Premiere at SXSW, winning the Special Jury Award for Filmmaking in the Narrative Feature Competition, and in 2022 she portrayed the lead role in acclaimed filmmaker Alena Lodkina’s feature PETROL, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Nathalie can currently be seen in the third season of the award-winning Foxtel/Binge drama THE TWELVE, and will next be seen in the highly anticipated BUMP: A CHRISTMAS FILM.
Nathalie graduated from New Zealand’s leading Drama School Toi Whakaari in 2018. Since graduating, she has appeared in the US feature film BLACK CHRISTMAS for Blumhouse Productions and seasons 1 and 2 of Great Southern Television’s ONE LANE BRIDGE. She played the role of Nina in Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL, which screened online during COVID and was met with worldwide acclaim, and most recently, she performed on stage in Canberra Theatre Company’s one-of-a-kind production of Nassim Soleimanpour’s ECHO.
Nathalie was named one of the Casting Guild of Australia’s Rising Stars of 2023.
