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This is the official website and biography for award winning actress Nicola Correia-Damude. Nicola hails from Toronto Canada and is known for her role as Maryse Lightwood on Shadowhunters, and other successes on film and television including Margarita, The Strain, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.  Liz Hampton is her Agent at Catalyst TCM.

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About

Nicola Correia-Damude is an award winning Guyanese-Canadian Film, Television and Stage Actor. She is best known for her work in several television series including Shadowhunters, Burden of Truth, Nurses, Coroner and The Boys.

Film and Television credits include Shadowhunters, Burden of Truth, October Faction, The Boys, Coroner, The Bold Type, Endlings, The Strain, Northern Rescue, Ghostwriter, Nurses, Remedy, Annedroids, Haven, Republic of Doyle, Saving Hope, Private Eyes, Dino Dana, Endlings, Stargate: SG1, Mayday, Young Blades, Degrassi: TNG, Republic of Sarah, The Hot Zone: Anthrax and the upcoming Pillow Talk. Nicola has also appeared in the Feature Films Margarita, Havana 57, Hellmington, Christmas Calendar, My Spy, A Royal Queens Christmas, The Good Father: The Martin MacNeil Story and Die in a Gunfight.

Nicola has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award’s for her Guest Starring performances on Remedy and Coroner and she received the Best Actress in a feature film award at the San Diego FilmOut Festival for her work in Margarita.

A graduate of Studio 58 and the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Nicola has also performed on stages across North America including the Shaw Festival of Canada, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canadian Stage, and Tarragon Theatre. Her theatre credits range from celebrated classics like Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing (Stratford Festival), Serious Money, The Women and Albertine in Five Times (Shaw Festival), to world premieres of brand new Canadian works like The Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre), Within the Glass (Tarragon Theatre) and Botticelli in the Fire (Canadian Stage) and Marine Life (Tarragon Theatre).

Nicola is also a Motion Capture performer for video games and has appeared in Assassin’s Creed:Unity, Far Cry 4, The Division and Far Cry 6. She is also a singer/song-writer in her spare time. As a female actor of mixed heritage she is passionate about seeing more cultural diversity on our screens and stages, about expanding roles for women and about improving conditions for mothers and families in the film and television industry.

Keep in touch: 
Instagram @nicolasummer
Twitter @nicolancd
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