Sean Talo

Is an actor and producer born and raised in Ghent, Belgium. He was found to have an acting talent at a very young age and was cast in the leading role in a school production at the age of 15, which started off his career as an actor. He began acting in youth theater productions while he was still at school and was a member of various local drama groups for many years. Sean first started taking acting classes at the Eva Bal's youth theater school, and at age 16 he went to study at the Academy of Performing Arts for 4 years, where he received the highest distinction in acting, while in the meantime he got his first supporting role in "Jungle Book" on national TV. After graduating, he stayed at the same school for another 3 years, before he was introduced by a friend to the National Opera Hall company to join the small group of regular actors to perform on international productions and to train the local extras in performances such as Aïda, Carmen, La Bohème and Nabucco.

After leaving the Academy of Performing Arts Sean started off in local theaters to play leading and supporting roles in both dramatic and humorous plays. Among the parts he has played are "Macbeth" in a production of Shakespeare's eponymous play, "Walter Ampe" in Alan Ayckbourn's "A Chorus Of Disapproval" and "Le Duc Donald von Westerwald" in "Crevette es de vedette" (adaptation of "La Dame de chez Maxim") directed by the famous Belgian actor and director Anton Cogen. The following year he started working as a freelance producer and founded his own small production company Intalo Film Productions.

To deepen his knowledge even further into making beautiful films, Sean fulfilled another long live dream, film school. In 2006, after 15 years theater, he started a full time training for 2 years at the School for Audiovisual and Performing Arts RITSC in Brussels, while being a manager of his own company and a full time father to his children. A thoughtful change which also prepared him to switch from stage to screen acting. Following film school, in 2009, Sean went to Paris where he met and studied with Primetime Emmy Award winner and Casting Director Nancy Bishop (Mission Impossible, The Chronicles of Narnia, Casino Royal), before meeting acting and success coach Bernard Hiller in 2011, with whom he studied for yet another year throughout Europe in Paris, London, Hamburg, Rome and Ischia.

To continue his Artistic education Sean went to Los Angeles to study with famed acting coach Ivanna Chubbuck (House M.D, Bones) and at the Bernard Hiller Acting Studio, where he had the pleasure of meeting and being taught by producers Erwin Stoff (I am legend, Water for Elephants) and Richard Middleton (The Artist). Actors Emilio Riveira (Sons of Anarchy, Traffic), Bryan Cranston (Bracking Bad, Drive), Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) and actress Virginia Madsen (Sideways). Casting director April Webster (Star Trek, Mission Impossible 3 & 4) and directors Brad Ratner (Rush hour, X-man, Prison Break) and Andy Tennant.

Trainings which will make it very worth! It brought Sean acting roles with BAFTA Award winner Tom Riley (Da Vinci's Demons), SAG nominee Jason Flemyng (The Missing), and in the Award winning film The Spy, with SAG nominee Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, directed by Jens Jonsson.