Mini Biography:

Born on 17 August 2005, at 12.33pm, a Leo, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK, Nancy is of Jewish German, Scottish, Irish Catholic, English and Romany descent. She was named after Boo, her mother's much loved pet cat and Nancy Spungeon, because her mother was reading 'And I Don't Want To Live This Life', a book about Nancy Spungeon, during her bed ridden later stages of pregnancy. Nancy is also a Hebrew name meaning Grace and favor, Boo means significant other, Orchis means member of the Orchid family, a rare and beautiful flower and Evans means gracious gift of Jehovah. Before this was researched her mother always called her angel, amazing grace and maintained she was a gift from God.She is a Mahayana Buddhist. Her nicknames are Nance, Boo and most notably 'The Northern Sun'. She is extrovert, entertaining, happy, enthusiastic, confident, charismatic, amiable, mischievous, full of life and energy, a HUGE personality, with eclectic clothing and matching humor.  She maintains a shingle bob, because she "wants to look like Nancy".  Nancy has the ability to learn a script within a matter of hours, as well as learning scripted accents within a matter of days and changing her appearance, as roles demand. She is home educated academically, which she enjoys, especially maths, history, science, PE and home economics. She has been studying Acting for almost five years and currently attends Act One Drama Studio, where she learns Acting on stage and to camera. Nancy is also proud to be represented by Byron's Management, one of the leading, most respected and recommended Actors Agents in the country.  She has several pets; a teacup Chihuahua called Bobbii, a guinea pig called Cloe, two fish called Sila and Rosa and a Russian long haired hamster called Jump for Joey aka Magic. She is very interested in Method Acting and enjoys watching and starring in films of a dramatic or fantasy nature. She also loves Gwen Stefani, Harajuku Girls, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, Ray Winstone, Jack Nicholson, Gospel choirs, traditional African dance, The Blues Brothers, pirates, dinosaurs, pizza, coca-cola, Jake and his Neverland Pirates and gaming. She also loves travel and particularly enjoyed Rome, America and York and she supports many charities including Breast Cancer Awareness and the Dogs Trust.

Photograph by Linda Pelling, 2007

Early Career:

Nancy began her career in 2007 when, as a beauty queen she won thirty five titles, competition prizes, three honorable mentions, one overall rating, one feature and three runner up grades. She then began modelling at which point she featured on five boutique websites, two pageantry sites, pageantry posters and featured on the websites, portfolios, exhibitions, studios and published books of Photographers; Latte Photography, Claire Curtis, Kate Laughton, Alis Pelleschi and Matilda Saul. She also had shoots with Photographers; Linda Pelling, Lucy Ridges, two agents in house Photographers, she shot some Acting family scenes, which appear in Illuminessence (Panacea Productions, 2008) and ilovepaparrazi, where she won a photo and talent contest for a days pampering and photo shoot. During her career she has had articles about her appear in Patsy's Magazine, Model Log Magazine, Star Now, Five Lamps Films, Bella, Eva and The Sun. Also in 2008 Nancy released a CD: Nancy Boo Sings Featuring Grandma, which included nursery rhymes, as well as a song she wrote herself. She was mobbed at Lime Street Station by Japanese tourists and is sometimes asked for autographs! She was photographed for a British Heart Foundation poster, for which they made a making of Video, of which there are two versions. During her career she has filmed three show reels from scratch (Showreelz 2008, 2010 and Khan Services 2009).

Photograph by Linda Pelling, 2007

Other:

She has also appeared in several Stagecoach productions - Ralph the Reindeer, as Reindeer 1, It's A Beautiful Day in Springtime, as a daffodil and a chicken, two Demonstrations, as a performer, A Nightmare Before Christmas, as a member of the chorus, A Snowman at Sunset, as the Sun and Billy No Buzz, as narrator 1, a school play called Humph the Camel, as the Star of Bethlehem and an Act One Drama Studio class show. In 2008 Nancy appeared in Hollyoaks, as Leah, after which, she announced to all on set; "that was gweeeaaaat", to the laughter and cheers of all. She has since won lead and supporting roles in films, music videos, corporate videos, commercials and television programmes, including Doctors, in which she played Aggie Radcliffe. In 2011 she attended her first three premiers for All That Glitters at QUAD, Derby, Arcane at Cineworld, Newport and Gibberish at QUAD, Derby. She was interviewed live on the Darren 'Cheeky Daz' Yates Show on Big City Radio, which featured on both websites.  Her show reel has been used as a tuition tool in a US acting class.  East (KupePictures, 2011) won Best Feature and Best Screenplay at the UK Film Festival 2012, an Award of Excellence from the Los Angeles Movie Awards 2012 and a critic on Film 2011 with Claudia Winklemann said his favorite film of 2011 was a small independent film called "East", shot in North Wales. All That Glitters (Toothpix, 2010) screened at around fifty festivals around the world, representing the UK, opened for special guest Eli Roth's Cabin Fever at the 2011 Motelx Horror Festival in Lisbonwas, was picked up for distribution by Shorts International and was shown on US and Turkish television.  Season of the Witch (Devils Avalanche, 2009) was picked up by California based company Ytinifni and Canadian based company Quiet revolution pictures with the film potentially being released in 184 territories.  Nancy has recently begun writing, filming and directing her own shorts.  She completed a head shot photo shoot with celebrity photographer Claire Grogan.  The S*** Kids Say (Academy Films, 2012), directed by Amanda Boyle, was covered by Netmums, ITV news, BBC news, several blogs and Shot Magazine.  She and her dog did a photo shoot with Martin Parr for Ibis Hotels and she competed in a competition of improvisation, monologues and poems at her drama school.

Scene From East, Copyright KupePictures, 2011

Acting Style:

Praised for her commitment to roles, stemming from her method acting, Nancy spent time talking with homeless people for her portrayal of Homeless Child in Breaking the Bank, researched Conjunctivitis for her role as Aggie Radcliffe in Doctors, learned how to fit a lock on a door for her role as Nancy in Fiver Live, Dyed her hair brown, permed it and learned a cockney accent for her role as Alice in ...And Not Heard, studied early English history and lifestyles for her role as Afriel in Arcane, leaned to strum a guitar, busk , cry on cue and slept in a tent for several nights for her role as Sammy in East, learned how to dance hip hop style for her role in the music video Surma by Nish Ezay, missed haircuts, washes and sleep for her roles in Safeguarding (Katie) and Combating Stigma (Child Jo) learned about death, how to appear dead and practiced drawing hearts for her role in Crayon (kid2) and learned about bullies, the causes of bullying, the behaviour of bullies, laws, child abuse, worked hard to look scruffy, including missing two regular haircuts and learned how to play with gender specific toys for her role in The S**t Kids Say (Featured Child), she then went on to having a very girly appearance, including lighter hair and nail varnish and mastering comic timing for her role as Lily in Christmas Dinner.  Nancy's brand of method acting includes employing whatever tactic she feels is necessary to elicit the best performance from herself and those with whom she is working. During the filming of Doctors for example, she was 'glued' to and played games with, including a messy water fight with co-star Jonathan Kerrigan in order to enhance and authenticate the closeness, love and fun demonstrated by their onscreen characters.

Scene From Safeguarding, Copyright ZED Productions, 2010