BIO
Estelle Bajou is a critically praised, award-winning actor, Drama Desk Award-nominated composer, visual artist, and writer.
A first-generation French-American raised in a furniture factory town in the North Carolina mountains, she's loved traveling across North, Central, and South America, Europe, and the Middle East, including Iraq, for projects, and is now based in Harlem.
Credits include Broadway: Once. TV: “Boardwalk Empire”; Ken Burns’ “Prohibition”. Feature Film: 6 Feet Apart; 7th Secret; Charming the Hearts of Men (opposite Anna Friel); Person Woman Man Camera TV; Spielberg’s The Post; Chaplin of the Mountains; subHysteria; Fireworkers; Beneath Disheveled Stars. Shorts: Dead + Alive; Malala; Elle; Glimpses; Sentimiento Es La Bomba; Paper Year; klutz., Starring Austin Pendleton; Lullaby for Ray; Broke, Henry Buys a Hat. Theatre: Labyrinth Theater Co, PS122, Edinburgh Fringe, LaMaMa, 59E59, One Year Lease Theater Co, 14th St Y, New Ohio, NJ Rep, FringeNYC, Under St. Marks, Shadowland, A.R.T. Oberon, Barrow Street, three National Tours, et al.
At nineteen years old, she earned a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She then earned an MFA in Acting from the School of Drama at The New School in New York City.
Member: SAG-AFTRA, AEA, American Federation of Musicians, and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.