Kaelen Ohm Talks Bringing Inner Extreme Skier to Film Roles: “I Want to Find the Steeper Hill to Go Down”

Kaelen Ohm says what got her as a fearless young skier better and faster down mountains in small-town Canada now drives her climb onto everyone’s call sheets as a go-for-it actor, filmmaker and musician.

“For some reason, I have branched out from everything I’ve known from my childhood, in following this path completely into the unknown,” Ohm tells The Hollywood Reporter about having gone from being a powder hound in Fernie, British Columbia as a child to her latest film, The Betrayers, world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival . That’s whether she’s executing a steep cliff drop as a skier, where “you have to trust and be really present,” or her Betrayers role as Leora, a mistress to a powerful Israeli politician who ultimately decides “to go off on her own and make a mark in any way she knows.” Related Stories Movies 'Back in Black' Director on Lovable Serial Killer Doing "Bad Things for the Right Reasons" in Christopher Walken-Starrer Movies Fina Strazza to Star in, Produce Romantic Drama 'Any Way You Want Me' (Exclusive)