Nicole Elizabeth Berger is a multi-talented actress, model, singer, pianist, and screenwriter with 13 film and TV credits, who is dedicated to pursuing her passion for the performing arts. She is known for her roles in the films Down and Out in the Valley (2025), He’s Watching You (2024), Runt (2020), Clover (2020), The Place of No Words (2019), and All At Once (2016).

Nicole began playing piano and modeling when she was six years old. She subsequently studied in the Drama Studio at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York and graduated from Concord Academy in Concord in 2022. Nicole also attended the Yale University Summer Drama Conservatory for Actors (2021) and took an acting intensive at the Margie Haber Studio, Hollywood, CA (2022). She is an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University with a concentration in Theater, Dance & Media and is also a member of the well-known a cappella group, the Harvard Callbacks.

In 2016, she was cast as the lead in All At Once, which tells the story of an artist who adopts his best friend’s daughters after their parents died in the 9/11 attacks. Nicole plays the younger daughter, Grace, a piano prodigy. The film premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in 2016 and was released on streaming services in March 2018.

In 2017, Nicole filmed Clover, a comedic crime drama, and played the movie’s namesake, Clover. The film was released in April 2020. In 2018, Nicole played one of the lead roles, Esmeralda—a guardian angel—in the fantasy-reality film, The Place of No Words. This film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019. Nicole also filmed the Indie thriller, Runt, in which she played the lead, Cecily, opposite Disney-star, Cameron Boyce. The film premiered at the Mammoth Film Festival in February 2020 and was released in select theaters in the US and on streaming channels during the pandemic in October 2020. She played one of the lead roles, Lisa—alongside Boo Boo Stewart, Kal Penn, Charlie Gillespie, and Til Schweiger—in the drama thriller Contra, about the underground chess circuit in New York City, which will be released later this year (2026).

She starred in the short-film, Ali’s Realm in which Nicole played Ali, a teenager who stands up to bullying and deals with the death of her closest friend, who comes to life again as a 7′ tall alien, Charlie. This film premiered at the New York Film Festival in May 2020. She also starred in the short film, Five Teenagers Walk into a Bar, a current-day story of high-school students lost in the desert and coming across a very unexpected environment and unusual people. Nicole played a supporting role in the thriller, He’s Watching You, which premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Festival in October 2024. Most recently, she played the leading role of Mickey in the short film, Down and Out in the Valley, about the challenges of the film industry, which is being submitted to 2026 film festivals.

The Place of No Words received the award for best film by the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy, and Runt received the audience award at Mammoth Film Festival for best feature-length film, and its director/writer received recognition as best director by the festival. In 2021, Nicole was chosen as the Best Teen Actress in a Streaming Film released in 2021 by the Young Artist Academy Award for her work in Clover. She also received recognition with an Award of Excellence for her role as lead actress in Ali’s Realm, which was chosen as the 2020 winner of the Best Shorts Competition in Los Angeles.

At Harvard, Nicole has had the privilege of studying with renown artists, including Diane Paulus, Stew Stewart, Ryan McKittrick, and Remo Airaldi for acting and Shira Milikowsky for directing; she has also worked with several acting coaches: Margie Haber, Susan Batson, Stacey Pianko, and Naima Moffett-Warden. Nicole is currently co-writing a science-fiction screenplay set in Regency-era England with the Emmy-nominated Artisha Mann-Cooper; she will also be acting in the film.

In addition to her passion for the arts, she is an avid reader, enjoys helping animals, and loves the beauty of the outdoors.

Keep up with the latest about Nicole on Instagram (@OfficialNicoleBerger) and X (@NicoleEBerger) and the Callbacks on Instagram (@harvardcallbacks).