Portia Badham, Actor, Entrepreneur, Runner

Actor and Entrepreneur, Portia Badham

Portia Badham has worked as a print model and commercial actor since 2005, having appeared in campaigns for Cologuard, Fidelis Healthcare, Emblem Health, MetLife, American Express, Sprint, Fuji Film, Fidelis Healthcare, Emblem Health, Lipitor, Oxygen cable channel, and Comcast. In addition to her acting credentials, she also works as a casting assistant at Donnas Grossman Casting agency in Manhattan.  

 

Outside of the talent industry, Portia spent more than 20 years as a PR and marketing consultant providing communications counsel to a variety of clients including Higher Purpose Productions/Orchestra Moderne NYC, Smartypants Pictures, Children’s National Medical Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, NAMIC, Comcast, Time Warner, AMC, Oxygen, the Harlem Y and UNCF.  And, she has held senior communications roles in healthcare and the advertising industry.

 

A resident of Union, New Jersey, Portia is an avid runner and devotes much of her time running to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through its Team in Training program. She has participated in several half marathons around the country and completed her first full marathon in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2017. As a lymphoma survivor, she is a regular speaker at LLS events to share her personal journey through cancer to inspire and lend support to patients and their families and to encourage others to support cancer research.

 

Find Portia on social media

Instagram: imsoportia

Twitter: pradgal