Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicole Sky.
So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
I’m an actress, I’m a transgender women, my pronouns are her, she, miss. And I’m a beautiful Afro-Latina women. My journey starts with me being adopted as a baby out of the hospital out of an unstable and uncomfortable home by a very unconditional loving family god has placed me with on my upbringing. If it wasn’t for my mom(Melissa Brown), there is no way in this world I would have made it this far or would have had the one of the best childhood’s only a kid could ask for if it wasn’t for her. My upbringing I was an army brat my dad at the time was in the army so me and my family bounced around a lot from state to state. The longest place I’ve lived and went to school 3rd grade till I graduated was a small town in Florida called Ocala, Fl. I knew at a very young age something was very different and odd with me I was a very flamboyant child didn’t know why or where I got it from but I always did my own thing never really did what boys would do. I know I was very fascinated looking at my mom get dressed putting her makeup on doing her hair putting on heels and just starting her day, I always envisioned me doing it lol I remember when I would be home and she would be running a quick errand I’ll turn some Beyoncé on and go grab a pair of her heels, put some pink lipstick on get a shirt put it on my head as if I had like 24 inch weave and I will Naomi Campbell myself around the house until I heard that car come in the driveway I would run back to her room put her shoes back run to the bathroom scrub the lipstick off my face, I was always wanting to stay in the house, I used to have these Barbie’s that I would play with that none of my family knew about lol. I know at school I remember students looking at me crazy cause the way I dressed the way my hair was I always took care of my skin, I was just not boyish at all lol. Middle school around 8th grade is when I came out as just gay, it was really tough for me because I was having all these emotions of my own plus being bullied I asked my mom to pull me out of school and just home school me for the rest of my 8th grade year. As me being home schooled I really came into grips with what I want to do with my life and who I want to be. I know I was so fascinated with watching films and just being in the living room pretending to be the actors on the TV and I would act out the whole movie, I fell in love with it grew such a passion for it, besides me being homeschooled I started getting in acting classes right away cause I knew this is what I wanted to do this is my purpose in life. I would say 9th grade freshman year started for me and I knew there was just something off like I wasn’t feeling like I was being myself still, I felt like I was just in the wrong body, I told my mom one day I said mom I feel like a girl on the inside, I feel like as a parent it could be hard when your child tells you that there coming out as gay or transgender because they might think that your life is going to go a certain way and it’s a whole 360 turn to where they might felt like they lost their child because the plans that they had for you are not going to be that. It was very tough at first but my family finally came around and accepted all of me. I at the time was going through some self-identity issues where I felt ok well I’m transgender I own that! I’m living my truth! But is me being an actress going to even work out anymore? I gave up on it I lost hope, I felt discouraged, I just literally let my dreams go and focused on something else that most people feel is a norm which is just work a 9 to 5 and go to school. So I was doing the norm and I was just so depressed like this girl with a big personality in such a close small town in Florida just feels like her dreams are just crushed it’s not going to happen I’m not even going to see the light of day, there was this show called orange is the new black that came on and when I see levee Cox on there I cried because I just thought being transgender was such a we can’t get the same opportunity as cis gender women, and then all these other shows like pose and star with amazing talented trans cast was on these major network shows I was like omg it’s definitely our time our lives our stories are being told on such bigger platforms. It’s like life slapped me in the face and I knew what I wanted to do in my life I knew that this was a for sure In my life cause I’ve always been asked well Nicole what do you want to do with yourself I would shrug my shoulders and be like idk. When I say god places people in your life for a reason there is a good friend I’ve known for years that stayed in Atlanta and he told me last year November 2018”Nicole come to Atlanta”. At this time I was still kinda in doubt in fear just undetermined, I was really stable in the small town I was living in at the time so I was battling with letting that go to chase my dreams but u had to come to grips with it and realize look Life is way too short, I don’t want any regrets, I don’t want I should have this or that I just need to do. So January of 2019 I moved to Atlanta to follow my dreams as an upcoming actress. You haft to have your goal set in your mind and in your heart. I know for me I want to push my horizons more than the normal.
Has it been a smooth road?
Lol! Woah a smooth road? Well if it was that easy, Absolutely Not and I’m still pushing for that smooth road and I know even when I reach my peak I’m going to still be searching for that smooth road I don’t think that goes anywhere. For me the struggles that I’ve faced is leaving my stability in Florida where I had my own place had a great job in the mental health field had amazing friends and a loving supporting family to leave all of that with your car packed with all your belongings to have only $200 in pocket to living on a friend’s couch trust the road isn’t smooth. To be a transgender women of color, being plus sized, feeling like it’s never going to work I will never get there to be in a group that I know is the most misunderstood and a target for hate crimes are transgender of color individuals. There’s been times and I still have times where I don’t feel the most passable or the prettiest because there is a standard of what society feels like a transgender should be and it goes way past the physical look. It starts with your heart and with your mental and being one of the strongest humans out here. I’ve been blessed to be in non-paid short films and I have no problem with that at all. I’ve learned and still learning and will never stop learning so much about the film industry/ and me being an upcoming actress just gaining so much knowledge. My passion what I ask god for is cast a series regular recurring role, cast as a character on film, commercials, etc. I know I’m not ashamed of my journey and I’m still going through my journey lord knows I am, I know my testimony is the good the bad and the ugly. It’s time for me to focus on my mission, work hard, and STOP THINKING just do.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
I will say Atlanta is one of the first places I would have moved to out of Florida. I love that half this city if not most is ran by African Americans. There are so many people chasing their dreams here weather it’s acting, directing, modeling, photography, producer, rapper, singer, dancer it really warmed my heart cause I’ve never seen so much of me in one city at one time, I’ve realized half the people have or still am going through the same situation I’m in trying to survive while making it. Being so hungry and determined for the craft there reaching I would tell anyone that’s wanting to get in the entertainment industry Atlanta is definitely the first place you haft to stop and try it out and give it its time because it’s here.
Contact Info:
- Email: Nicoleskybookings@gmail.com
- Instagram: @theNicole_sky
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