Award-Winning Actress Nadège August On the Five Things You Need To Shine In the Entertainment Industry

The more you know, the richer your life is and the characters you may end up portraying will be the beneficiary of all of your life experiences.

I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Nadège August.

Actress Nadège August is a multiple award-winning actress. Currently, she can be seen as ‘Joan’ on Tyler Perry’s drama Ruthless on BET. Audiences will recognize her from Nickelodeon’s Young Dylan as the titular character’s wayward mom, ‘Darlene Wilson’, and prior to this recurring on Zach Braff’s ABC comedy Alex Inc. Nadège is also the creator, producer and host of the edu-taining podcast What The Fockery; and continues to gain fans as the creator, writer and lead of the hit comedy web series, Bougie Dilemma. She won 2019 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer winning play, Good People; and has earned two NAACP Theatre Awards nominations for her talents on stage.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series Nadège! Can you tell us the story of how you grew up?

The pleasure is all mine! My origin story is pretty complicated. Born in Brooklyn, NY to…