Actress/Author/Producer/Mom Nicole Arlyn

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James Lott Jr chats with Nicole about Brooklyn, LA and more!
Actress/author/producer Nicole Arlyn currently stars as a retired killer opposite Natalie Burn, Cam Gigandet and Jason Patricv from Jeffrey Reddick, the creator of Final Destination in director Timothy Woodward Jr.’s action/thriller Til Death Do Us Part. From Cinedigm in theaters and vod everywhere. In writer/director Eric Weinstock’s romantic short, Love Don’t Fade Away, she stars opposite Ronnie Marmo’s Lenny Bruce character as Cindy Vaughn, a Connecticut housewife caught up in her husband’s drama, and in director David Lipper’s horror film, Wolf Mountain, she plays writer/actor Kelli Price’s deceased mother, seen in flashback. A Brooklyn-native who grew up on Long Island, New York, Nicole graduated from Lynbrook High School, where she did plays and modeled. But her film debut came many years earlier, at the age of six months, when she appeared in cult filmmaker Philip Marshak’s feature film Potluck. She later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was the lead actress in the short experimental film, Femme de Versaille, directed by Andre Duclos. She also studied at Ohio State University, where she was in the Miss Ohio State Beauty Pageant. However, she considers The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City as her true educational home. She later studied with celebrated acting teacher Susan Batson, whom she considers her key mentor. After the Playhouse, she worked in numerous off-Broadway productions, and made several indie films, including Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots with Michael Imperioli, and writer/director Carrie Ansell’s comedy Flushed. Nicole then moved to Los Angeles where she continued to study the craft of acting with Susan Peretz (Dog Day Afternoon) at the Third Street Theatre. She was soon cast in Clay Pigeons, directed by David Dobkin, playing opposite Joaquin Phoenix, and also starring Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, and Georgina Cates. Her other film credits include: Frogs For Snakes, The Wedding Planner, Chinese Whispers, Lunch Break, Greasewood Flat, Brooklyn Bound, and Reboot Camp.