Kaitriona Balfi is a famous model and actress of Irish descent. Most of the viewers are familiar with her on the television series Alien, in which she played the main role.
Biography
The future celebrity was born in 1979, on October 4. It happened in the small Irish town of Monahan. Her family was large. So, Caitrion became the fourth child of her parents. She has four siblings, as well as two adopted. Caitrion's parents were a police sergeant and marriage counselor. Kaitrion’s whole childhood was spent in a village called Tedavnet, located in the vicinity of Monakhan. Until the age of 17, the girl had never left her 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 in order to study acting.
Model work
In 1998, Kaitriona Balfi was spotted by an agent of the Asset Irish agency and will offer her to try herself in the role of model. The 19-year-old girl agreed. For a year she worked as a model in Dublin, and then, after accepting the Ford Models offer, she went to Paris. She had to quit her studies at the institute. Caitrione's first work in Paris was to participate in the Kenzo anniversary show. The girl’s career developed rapidly. In 2002, she became the first model of Irish descent to take part in the Victoria's Secret lingerie show. In 2003, Elite invited Balfi to move to New York. Over the years, as a model, Caitrion has taken part in many fashion shows. However, in 2007, she decided to end her career and devote herself to the profession of an actress.
Movie work
The first time on the big screens of Caitrion Balfi, films with whose participation will subsequently become known throughout the world, appeared before the model’s career ended. It happened in 2006. Caitrion’s film debut was The Devil Wears Prada, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.
Having a successful modeling career, in 2007 the girl realized that this was not her vocation. Therefore, she decided to completely devote herself to the long-standing dream of becoming an actress. Although by Hollywood standards, she was already not at all young to start a film career. In 2008, the girl began to take acting lessons. And a few months later she settled in Los Angeles to take up a career closely. Another year, Balfi devoted exclusively to her studies. So, she visited Warner Laughlin Studios, Sanford Meisner Center and Judith Weston Studios.
For more than six months, Caitrion unsuccessfully attended castings in various Hollywood projects. As a result, in 2011 she got a cameo role without words. The girl played the mother of the protagonist in the fantastic film "Super 8", directed by JJ Abrams. A year later, the filmography of the aspiring actress was replenished with another work. She was the picture "The Illusion of Deception." Kaitrion Balfi again got a silent role in it, but the girl managed to work on the same set with Morgan Freeman, Michael Kane and Woody Harrelson.
In 2012, the actress took part in two digital projects at once. These were the web series "H +" created by Google and Beauty Inside, which received three Grand Prix at the prestigious Cannes Lions advertising festival. In the first project, Caitrion played the role of the head of the computer transplant corporation, and in the second, she played one of the incarnations of the main character, Alex, who woke up every day with a new person.
Continuation of film career
The voice of Caitrion was first heard by the audience of a big movie in 2013. This happened thanks to Belfi playing the role of CIA agent in Michael Hofstrom’s “Escape Plan”. The main characters in the film were played by Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In 2014, the TV series “Alien Woman”, based on the novel by Diana Gabbledon, which became a bestseller, began to be broadcast on television. In this project, Caitriona Balfi played the main role, playing Claire Randall, a nurse who once in the most mysterious way moved in time from 1945 to 1743. Both the series and the work of the actress received the highest praise from both the audience and critics. Rolling Stone magazine included Balfi in the list of 25 sexiest people of the year, and Entertainment Weekly named her one of the 12 most successful breakthroughs of 2014. In 2015, working in the series brought Caitrione the Saturn Award in the category "Best Actress". She was also nominated for an award from the Irish Academy of Film and Television for Best Supporting Drama.
Kaitriona Balfi: personal life
Not much is known about this aspect of the actress's biography as her fans would like. So, there is information that right after Caitrion settled in New York, she met Dave Milone for several years, the guitarist of the popular rock band Radio 4. Caitrion can even be seen in two music videos of the band.
It is also known that Balfi had an affair with screenwriter Jamie Moss. Their relationship lasted from 2008 to 2011.