The day after graduating early (with honors) from high school, actress Nadia Litz moved from her home town of Winnipeg to Toronto, at the age of seventeen. The child ballet dancer and theater actress promptly enrolled in York University's prestigious Theatre Studies Program. It was during her first year at York, she answered an open casting call and was subsequently handpicked to audition for the title role of "Lolita" in Adrian Lyne's 1998 remake. Although she did not get the part she was a top choice and garnered attention from agents and casting directors alike. She was discovered soon after by critically acclaimed director Jeremy Podeswa, after she won a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Actress at the age of eighteen for her starring role in the Canadian Film Center's short film, "Shift" (written by. "New Waterford Girl" screenwriter Trisha Fish). Podeswa then cast her in a starring character role alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Molly Parker in his 1999 movie, "The Five Senses". The Genie nominated film garnered Litz a trip to the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and critical acclaim from many Canadian and International publications including Variety Magazine, Blackbook Magazine, Toronto Life, Flare, The New York Times and the cover of the prestigious "25 People Under 25 To Watch" millennium issue of Macleans Magazine. She then went on to star in Podeswa's follow up CTV movie based on the famed Martha Ostenso novel, "Wild Geese. Litz's performance beside acting veterans Sam Shepard and Alberta Watson won her a Gemini nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Dramatic Miniseries. From that success she went on to star in Brad Peyton's Slam Dance Award winning short film, "Evelyn: The Cutest Little Evil Dead Girl Ever". She then starred with Don McKellar in Kris Lefcoe's, "Public Domain" (winner of the Beverly Hills Film Festival Audience Choice for Best Feature Film), "Rhinoceros Eyes" (winner of the Discovery Award at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival) and Andrea Dorfman's critically adored Canadian comedy, "Love That Boy". NOW Magazine voted Litz as on of the ten Canadians to watch in Film in 2004 for her performance in, "Love That Boy." During her success as an actress, Nadia keeps busy with "real life". She has studied Film Producing and Screen Writing at UCLA, traveled extensively, had he own weekly DJ night, and continues to learn as much as she can about people.
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