Lorna Balfour

Lorna Balfour
Lorna Balfour
Born	Atlanta, Georgia
Alma mater	The University of Utah
Occupation(s)	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, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 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
2017	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage	Games of the XXXI Olympiad	Won

Filmography

Television

Title	Year	Role		Notes
Title	Year	Actress	Producer	Notes
2016 Rio Olympics: Games of the XXXI Olympiad	2016	No	Yes	20 Episodes
Everwood	2003	Yes	No	8 Episodes
Touched By An Angel	2001	Yes	No	1 Episode

Film


Title	Year	Role		Notes
Title	Year	Actress	Producer	Notes
High School Musical 3: Senior Year	2008	Yes	No
Hatching Pete	2009	Yes	No

References

^ "Alumni Profiles". Waterford School. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
^ Stories, Local (25 June 2020). "Meet Lorna Balfour of Looma|TV and Looma Media in Sandy Springs - Voyage ATL Magazine | ATL City Guide". voyageatl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
^ Michaelson, Jenniffer. "Dietitian Stephanie Parker takes on the healthy student challenge". KSL TV – via KSL.com.
^ Dec. 14, Lorna Balfour | Posted-; A.m, 2015 at 10:02. "'Active Classroom' program gets kids moving in order to learn". www.ksl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Lorna Balfour". Bold TV. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
^ Nordyke, Kimberly (2017-05-10). "Sports Emmys: NBCUniversal's Rio Olympics Coverage Tops Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
^ "NBC Sports Group Wins 9 Sports Emmy Awards". Comcast. May 9, 2017.
^ "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 38th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS" (PDF). TheEmmys.tv. May 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021.

External links

Official Website

[1] "Alumni Profiles". Waterford School. Retrieved 2022-09-18.

[2] Stories, Local (25 June 2020). "Meet Lorna Balfour of Looma|TV and Looma Media in Sandy Springs - Voyage ATL Magazine | ATL City Guide". voyageatl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.

[3] Michaelson, Jenniffer. "Dietitian Stephanie Parker takes on the healthy student challenge". KSL TV – via KSL.com.

[4] Dec. 14, Lorna Balfour | Posted-; A.m, 2015 at 10:02. "'Active Classroom' program gets kids moving in order to learn". www.ksl.com. Retrieved 2022-09-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[5] "Lorna Balfour". Bold TV. Retrieved 2022-09-18.

[6] Nordyke, Kimberly (2017-05-10). "Sports Emmys: NBCUniversal's Rio Olympics Coverage Tops Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-09-27.

[7] "NBC Sports Group Wins 9 Sports Emmy Awards". Comcast. May 9, 2017.

[8] "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 38th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS" (PDF). TheEmmys.tv. May 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021.

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