Benjamina Bollag
My name is Benjamina Bollag, I was born in Geneva, Switzerland and have spent most of my life there until I moved to university in London 2 years ago. I was 4 years old when I joined the International School of Geneva (La Grande Boissière) where I graduated in 2012 with an International Baccalaureate. I then joined Imperial College London where I am currently in my third year on a four years course towards a MEng in Chemical engineering. I am fluent in three languages( French, English and Hebrew) and have a conversational level in Spanish.
Throughout my education I have always attempted to help people around me from tutoring a seventh grader to volunteering at a camp for autistic children and fundraising for several organisations (currently vice president of finance for water brigades Ghana society) and more recently volunteering at an orphanage and school in Nepal (mostly tutoring in English and mathematics). My goal throughout those activities has mostly been to help children, as I believe they are the ones who need the most help. I was lucky to meet my current associate Lara Pictet 11 years ago and am thrilled to be on this project with her to help you achieve your goals while helping a bigger cause by giving our revenues to Teenage Cancer Trust.
Grades obtained:
Chemical Engineering at Imperial College : 1st in first year, pass with distinction in extra course in Business and 2 :1 in second year
International Baccalaureate 43/45 and 6/7 in extra subject (physics) : Chemistry (Higher Level) 7/7,
Economics (HL) 7/7, Mathematics (HL) 7/7, French (Standard Level) 6/7, English (SL) 6/7,Spanish (SL) 7/7,
Bonus points 3/3, Physics (SL) 6/7
Certificates:
TOEFL score of 101 (2011)
Score of 99 with Certificate of distinction at the AMC12 (American Mathematics
Competition),1st place in my school (2011)
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Lara Pictet
Lara Pictet, was born in Geneva, Switzerland on June 9th 1994, to Veronique who is a consultant for Welcome Service Sarl in Geneva and Fabien Pictet, who is the managing partner of FPP Asset Management LLP.
Lara has spent most of her life in Geneva where she obtained her first lead role in a short film called Orloj by Jeanne Rektorik when she was 12 years old. The film was picked at various Film Festivals including: Solothurn Film Festival; Kerala Film Festival; Geneva Film Festival as well as the Locarno Film Festival.
At the age of 13, Lara books a commercial for renowned Telephone brand in Switzerland: Sunrise.
Lara then moves to the UK to pursue her acting skills by doing her GCSE’s in Millfield School in Somerset followed by doing her A-Levels in renowned Theatre Sixth form college: Hurtwood House, where Lara played various roles such as: Medea in Medea; Patrizia in Push up By Roland Schimmelpfennigsd; Gruschenka in The Brothers Karamazov; Marie in Woyzeck. Lara was also part of the Charity committee.
During the summer 2011, Lara goes off to Los Angeles to attend a 4 weeks Advanced Acting Program with New York Film Academy where she makes a lot of very good contacts within the industry.
Lara decides to do a foundation course with Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts Associated with RADA (The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts) where she gets the role of Dionyza in Shakespeare’s Pericles for their end of year show. At the age of 19, Lara decides to return to Los Angeles to test the grounds and have certain meetings for her career where she met very popular manager Lena Roklin from Luber Roklin Ent. And decided to sign within 20 minutes of their first meeting.
Lara then came back to London and found her current agent at a Micksing Productions showcase Sara Sehdev from Core MGMT.