Bert Cardozo

Bertrand (Bert) Cardozo was born on January 7, 1983 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The son of two Telecom entrepreneurs, Martine (Deas) and Patrick Cardozo, Bert is the oldest of three siblings, having a brother and sister, Jean-Sebastien and Valerie. Very early, Bert demonstrated exceptional abilities to easily assimilate concepts on top of having the most surprising memory. Intrigued by Bert's language skills and his learning aptitude, his grand-mother, Jacqueline Turian, who held a pedagogy degree from one of the most prestigious French universities, decided to use Bert's skills as part of a study showing that kids can learn at any stage of their lives. Teaching her own reading method "Ti Malice aux pays des Lettres" Jacqueline obtained unprecedented results and at 18 months Bert knew his entire alphabet and was able to assemble words. The most captivating part was that during his preschool years Bert was showing the mental maturity of a 10 years old and was only 4 ½. Deemed to be on the gifted side, Bert was then fully assessed and admitted in 2nd grade at the French Lycée (Lycée Alexandre Dumas). When he was 13, over the summer vacation, Bert figured out that he could make his own movies using his parent's camcorder. He wrote and directed a short film that was shot in sequence to avoid post editing. He cast his siblings and cousins as actors and decided to not act in it himself to ensure production quality. At the age of 14, Bert's parents took the decision to send him to boarding school in Boca Raton, Florida to continue high school and complete his academic cycle. It is there, at Saint-Andrew's School, that Bert discovered his passion for everything acting related when he took Stagecraft as his required arts elective. The course was taught by Ms. Teresa Vignau who encouraged Bert to be a stage manager for 6 plays over the course of 3 semesters. As much as Bert wanted to audition for these plays and get to be on stage instead of off, he had to make some difficult choices and fulfill his other obligations as a tri-athlete. But this was only the beginning, with his newly sparked passion, on a whim, Bert was eager to pursue acting in college. However, like any concerned parent, his father had other ambitions and strongly believed that the entertainment industry was filled with too much uncertainty. Putting his acting ambitions on hold Bert reluctantly applied and got accepted to the Computer Science program at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.