Lorna Balfour Explained

Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia
Alma Mater:The University of Utah
Occupation:Television Personality, Actress, Producer
Awards:Emmy Award

Lorna Gabrielle Balfour is an American Emmy Award-winning producer and journalist. She is Caribbean-American, with both of her parents hailing from the West Indian country of Trinidad and Tobago.

Early life and education

Raised in Salt Lake City, Balfour attended private liberal arts institution, The Waterford School.[1]

Balfour then attended The University of Utah, where she created her own interdisciplinary bachelor's degree. Her studies focused mainly on broadcasting, production, and marketing. She graduated May 5, 2016.[2]

Career

Balfour had roles in productions filmed in Salt Lake City, such as Touched By An Angel, Everwood,, and a few other Disney Channel movies.

KSL-TV is the station where Balfour spent time working as a weekend news producer and reporter. Balfour reported on the on-air segment of ‘Your Life Your Health’[3] and wrote articles for the KSL 5 website’s news features.[4] [5]

Balfour worked at NBC Sports as an Associate Producer for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. On May 10, 2017, Balfour earned an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage"[6] [7] for the "Games of the XXXI Olympiad".[8]

Awards

!Year!Award!Category!Nominated Work!Result
2017Emmy AwardsOutstanding Trans-Media Sports CoverageGames of the XXXI Olympiad

Filmography

Television

TitleYearRoleNotes
ActressProducer
201620 Episodes
Everwood20038 Episodes
Touched By An Angel20011 Episode

Film

Title! rowspan="2"
YearRoleNotes
ActressProducer
2008
Hatching Pete2009

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alumni Profiles . 2022-09-18 . Waterford School . en-US.
  2. Web site: Stories . Local . Meet Lorna Balfour of LoomaTV and Looma Media in Sandy Springs - Voyage ATL Magazine ATL City Guide . 2022-09-18 . voyageatl.com . 25 June 2020 . en-US.
  3. News: Michaelson . Jenniffer . Dietitian Stephanie Parker takes on the healthy student challenge . . KSL.com.
  4. Web site: Dec. 14 . Lorna Balfour Posted- . A.m . 2015 at 10:02 . 'Active Classroom' program gets kids moving in order to learn . 2022-09-18 . www.ksl.com . en.
  5. Web site: Lorna Balfour . 2022-09-18 . Bold TV . en-US.
  6. Web site: Nordyke . Kimberly . 2017-05-10 . Sports Emmys: NBCUniversal's Rio Olympics Coverage Tops Winners . 2022-09-27 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
  7. Web site: May 9, 2017 . NBC Sports Group Wins 9 Sports Emmy Awards . Comcast.
  8. Web site: May 9, 2017 . THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 38th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20211105150750/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/sports_38th_winners_v04.pdf . November 5, 2021 . TheEmmys.tv.