Nadia Hatta

Nadia Hatta (Chinese: 張瑀希) is a Popular TV Personality and Actress made her global television debut as the Co-host & Writer for Discovery Channel's TLC 2010 at Fun Taiwan 瘋台灣 Season 11 (2009-2011) which airing across Asia Pacific. A pivotal moment in her career, was quickly known to be a bilingual (Mandarin and English), cross-cultural actress and TV personality, bridging East and West.

Early life

Hatta was born in Taipei and raised in Taiwan and Canada. She received the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and Theatre from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Nadia began her performing career at the Experimental Wing Studio in New York City, appearing in various Independent films and off-Broadway stage parts. She returned to Taipei for a lead role on the series Hank's Place with LiveABC ^[1]

Acting career

Television work

In 2005, Nadia co-starred with MTV VJ Andy Chen on E4kids, a 5 star award winning bilingual TV show airing daily across Taiwan on Domo Channel as well as all the public buses for 265 episodes. She continued TV presenting in both languages for in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before returning to film acting in 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.^[2]

Films

Nadia starred in Fell In Love With A Girl, a short film, circulating in film festivals such as Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival and won an Audience Award for Best Short in NYC Channel 13 (REEL13). Nadia Hatta made her film debut in Beijing, China with film Uphill, Downhill (2011), filmed during her desert trek in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, with first-time Chinese director Zhang Feng-Lei, which premiered at the Beijing on May 23, 2011. Her other film work include “My Life is Bali”], a directed by Kim Kindersely, filmed and premiered in Bali, Indonesia in 2011. Nadia also guest starred in So Long, My lonesome, a Taiwanese feature film released at spring of 2011, Mister French Taste, a Euro-Asian series, and “Ruin,” (Los Angeles, 2011) a short film in which she also co-wrote.

Television

• Fun Taiwan, Discovery Channel: Travel& Living
• Taichung Travel, HOST Stella Yeh/Government Project
• MTV-The Games, Nadia/Contestant,MTV Asia
• Live Earth 2007, TV HOST, Public Television Station, TAIWAN
• "Hank's Place" Sitcom Sonja/Reoccuring, LiveABC/Andrew Gregg
• MTV-N Summer Promo, Teenage Punk/Support, MTV-N/Snap Films

Films

"My Life In Bali", TV Presenter

• "Fell In Love With A Girl", Girl/Lead
• "Maya", Violet/Lead
• "In The Coming of Surprise", Taiwan Film
• "The Circle",Taiwan Film
• "MixTape"
• "Fortune"
• "Taipei"
• "Holy Heretic"
• "Sunless"
• "Newlywed"
• Flea Circus

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