Caitrion Balfee: Biography and Career

Caitriona Balfi is a famous model and actress of Irish descent. For most viewers, she is familiar on the television series "The Stranger", in which she played the main role.

Biography

The future celebrity was born in 1979, on October 4. It happened in a small Irish town of Monahan. Her family had many children. So, Caitriona became the fourth child of the parents. She has four siblings, and also two reception rooms. Kaitrioni's parents were a police sergeant and a marriage counselor. All the childhood of Caitrion passed in a village called Tedavnet, located in the vicinity of Monakhan. Until 17 years, the girl never left his native Ireland. At the age of seven, the future star began to participate in the performances of the local youth theater group. And in 1997 she entered the Conservatory at the Dublin Institute of Technology to learn acting skills.

Working as a model

In 1998, Caitriona Balfi was seen by an agent of the Irish agency Asset and offered her to try herself as a model. The 19-year-old girl agreed. For a year she worked as a model in Dublin, and then, having accepted the offer of Ford Models, went to Paris. She had to give up studying at the institute. The first work of Caitria in Paris was to participate in the anniversary show of Kenzo. Career girl quickly developed. In 2002, she became the first model of Irish origin to take part in the Victoria's Secret underwear show. In 2003, Elite Agency invited Balfey to move to New York. Over the years, the model Kaitriona has participated in a variety of fashion shows. However, in 2007 she decided to end her career and completely devote herself to the profession of an actress.

Working in a movie

The first time on the big screens of Caitrion Balfi, the films with which later will be known throughout the world, appeared before the career of the model. It happened in 2006. Kennedy's film debut was the picture "The Devil Wears Prada", starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.

Having made a successful modeling career, in 2007 the girl realized that this is not her vocation. Therefore, she decided to fully shine her long-standing dream of becoming an actress. Although by Hollywood standards, she was already not young at all for the beginning of film career. In 2008, the girl began to take acting lessons. A few months later, she settled in Los Angeles to get involved in a career. For another year, Belfi has solemnly focused on her studies. So, she attended Warner Locklin's studio, Sanford Meisner's center and Judith Weston's studio.

More than half a year, Kaitriona unsuccessfully attended castings in various Hollywood projects. As a result, in 2011 she got an episodic role without words. The girl played the mother of the main character in the fantastic picture "Super 8", directed by JJ Abrams. A year later the filmography of the beginning actress was supplemented with one more work. She became the picture "Illusion of deceit." Caitrion Balfi again had a silent role, but the girl managed to work on one set with Morgan Freeman, Michael Kane and Woody Harrelson.

In 2012, the actress took part in two digital projects. It was a web-seraglio "N +" created by the company "Google", and "Beauty inside", which received three Grand Prix at the prestigious advertising festival "Cannes Lions". In the first project, Caitrione performed the role of the head of the corporation-manufacturing transplant corporation, and in the second she played one of the incarnations of the main character Alex, who every day woke up a new man.

Continuation of film career

The voice of Caitrion, the audience of the big cinema was first heard in 2013. This was due to the fulfillment of Balfey's role as a CIA agent in Michael Hofstrem's "Escape Plan". The main characters in the film were played by Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2014, the television series began to broadcast the series "The Stranger", based on the novel by Diane Gabldon, which became a bestseller. In this project, Caitriona Balfi played the lead role, playing Claire Randall - a nurse who once in the most mysterious way moved from time to time in 1945 in 1743. Both the series itself and the work of the actress received the highest praise from both viewers and critics. The Rolling Stone magazine included Balfee on the list of the 25 most sexy people of the year, and Wickley Interactive called it one of the 12 most successful breakthroughs of 2014. In 2015, work in the series brought Caitria the "Saturn" award in the category "Best Actress". She was also nominated for the Irish Film and Television Academy Award for Best Dramatic Secondary Act.

Caitrion Balfee: personal life

About this aspect of the biography of the actress is not known as much as her fans would like. So, there is information that right after Kaitriona settled in New York, she met with Dave Milone, the guitarist of the popular rock band Radio 4. For several years, you can even see Cayitrion in two clips of the band.

It is also known that Balfi had an affair with screenwriter Jamie Moss. Their relationship lasted from 2008 to 2011.