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Kasha Kropinski (born Katarzynka Kropinski on August 27 1991) is a film and television actress, and a classical ballerina.

Personal Life:

Kasha was born in South Africa, the daughter of Jacek Kropinski and Debbie Cochrane. Jacek is a film maker ( HYPERLINK "http://www.kropinski.net" www.kropinski.net) and Debbie is a former international model.

Career:

Kasha started out at the age of 6, performing lead roles on stage with a Cape Town theatre troupe, Stagecraft. Her roles included Christopher Robin, Peter Rabbit, Noddy, Mowgli, Frankie Fox (all boy roles, evidently no girl roles in children’s theatre!) and she earned high praise from theatre critics: quote from Glyn Spaans of the Argus, “… beautifully enunciated by Kasha Kropinski, somehow rousing vague memories of the most precocious little dynamite of all time, Shirley Temple”. At this time, Kasha also gained distinction in her London Trinity College exams.

Concurrently, Kasha also performed in Ballet Eisteddfods and earned 5 gold medal awards.

At the age of 9, Kasha and her parents moved to Los Angeles where she began doing guest roles on TV: Angel, Without a Trace, State of Grace, Crossing Jordan, ER, The Shield, Dirt, and Zoey 101. She also did ADR work for features Big Fish, The Hunted, The Village and Mrs. Harris. She voiced the puppy Penny in 101 Dalmatians: Patch’s London Adventure and Miss Holly in Disney’s Prep and Landing 2009 Christmas Special. She also continued with her ballet and danced roles in the 2003 and 2004 productions of the Nutcracker ballets.

On graduating from a Studio City elementary school, she received the President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence. Due to her ballet and acting schedule, it was decided she should do her schooling via a home-school program where she was offered to join the National Honor Society.

At the age of 11, Kasha was chosen to perform the lead role in the proposed musical, A Little Princess, and flew to New York to take part in a Broadway presentation for investors.

When she returned to LA, she was cast in a South African production, Story of an African Farm, as one of the lead characters Lyndall, playing opposite Richard E. Grant and Armin Mueller-Stahl. This movie was based on a famous literary work by Olive Schreiner. Kasha spent 2 months filming in the Karoo outside Cape Town. The film was No.1 at the box office on its opening weekend in South Africa.

Kasha has attended the Royal Ballet summer school in England, the San Francisco Ballet summer school and was a finalist in Tomorrow's Stars which showcases the very best young adult performers from Southern California in music, dance and voice. She appeared in the 2009 movie Fame in the role of Ballerina.

In the summer of 2009, Kasha attended the LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) summer school in England, and on returning to LA, danced two roles in the ballet Cinderella. _{Subscript textSubscript textaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa}

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