Nicola Correia-Damude


Nicola Correia-Damude is a Toronto-based actress and singer.

Career

Television and film

Correia-Damude has had recurring roles on Shadowhunters, Annedroids and The Strain. Additional television credits include Haven, , and Stargate SG-1. Film credits include Margarita, Havana 57, and Memory. She also had a recurring role as the mother in the Canadian children's show, "Dino Dana".

Theatre

Correia-Damude is a graduate of Etobicoke School of the Arts, Studio 58, and the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Her theatre credits include Coriolanus and Much Ado About Nothing at the Stratford Festival, Serious Money and The Women and Albertine in Five Times at the Shaw Festival, as well as premieres of new Canadian works The Madonna Painter, Within the Glass and Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom.

Voice acting

Correia-Damude has supplied voice overs for CBC's The Passionate Eye, Afghanada, The Fifth Estate, , and David Suzuki Explores.

Personal life

An actress of mixed heritage, Correia-Damude is "an advocate of increased cultural diversity in film, television and theatre; expanding roles for women; and improving conditions for mothers and families in the film and television industry." As well as an actress, she is also a singer-songwriter, plays piano and guitar, and has a dance background in modern, classical, jazz, step and tap.
She is bisexual. She is married to actor Carlos Gonzalez-Vio.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Correia-Damude has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her guest performance on Remedy and received the Best Actress in a Feature Film award at the San Diego FilmOut Festival for her work in Margarita.