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.
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]
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]
2017 | Emmy Awards | Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage | Games of the XXXI Olympiad |
Title | Year | Role | Notes | ||
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Actress | Producer | ||||
2016 | 20 Episodes | ||||
Everwood | 2003 | 8 Episodes | |||
Touched By An Angel | 2001 | 1 Episode |
Year | Role | Notes | |||
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Actress | Producer | ||||
2008 | |||||
Hatching Pete | 2009 |