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Lorna Balfour
Born
Alma materThe University of Utah
Occupation(s)Television Personality, Actress, Producer
AwardsEmmy 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.

Early life and education

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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

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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

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Year Award Category Nominated Work Result
2017 Emmy Awards Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage Games of the XXXI Olympiad Won

Filmography

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Television

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Title Year Role Notes
Actress Producer
2016 Rio Olympics: Games of the XXXI Olympiad 2016 No Yes 20 Episodes
Everwood 2003 Yes No 8 Episodes
Touched By An Angel 2001 Yes No 1 Episode

Film

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Title Year Role Notes
Actress Producer
High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008 Yes No
Hatching Pete 2009 Yes No

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni Profiles". Waterford School. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  2. ^ Stories, Local (25 June 2020). "Meet Lorna Balfour of Looma|TV and Looma Media in Sandy Springs - Voyage ATL Magazine | ATL City Guide". voyageatl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  3. ^ Michaelson, Jenniffer. "Dietitian Stephanie Parker takes on the healthy student challenge". KSL TV – via KSL.com.
  4. ^ Dec. 14, Lorna Balfour | Posted-; A.m, 2015 at 10:02. "'Active Classroom' program gets kids moving in order to learn". www.ksl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Lorna Balfour". Bold TV. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  6. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (2017-05-10). "Sports Emmys: NBCUniversal's Rio Olympics Coverage Tops Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  7. ^ "NBC Sports Group Wins 9 Sports Emmy Awards". Comcast. May 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 38th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS" (PDF). TheEmmys.tv. May 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021.
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