Violet Nelson

{{short description|Canadian actress}} '''Violet Nelson''' is a Kwakwakaʼwakw and Honduran actress from Canada.<ref>Robert Sullivan, [https://www.vogue.com/article/the-body-remembers-when-the-world-broke-open-interview "In The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, Two Women Grapple With Trauma and the Past"]. ''Vogue'', December 5, 2019.</ref> She is most noted for her performance as Rosie in the film ''The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'', for which she received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019,<ref name=mack>Adrian Mack, [https://www.straight.com/movies/1337036/marriage-story-dominates-vancouver-film-critics-circle-noms "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms"]. ''The Georgia Straight'', December 13, 2019.</ref> and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.<ref>Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/canadian-screen-awards-nominations-2020/ "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show"]. ''Now'', February 18, 2020.</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nelson, Violet}} Category:Canadian film actresses Category:Actresses from British Columbia Category:First Nations actresses Category:Kwakwaka'wakw people Category:Canadian people of Honduran descent Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century Canadian actresses Category:21st-century First Nations people Category:21st-century First Nations women