Joe Nyri
American Actor / Extra / Character Performer Based in Sofia, Bulgaria
Profile
I am an American living locally in Sofia, Bulgaria, with a broad professional and life background that allows me to portray many realistic character types naturally. I have worked in more than 35 jobs across sales, hospitality, retail, chauffeur service, training, teaching, event planning, maintenance, food service, sports, and business development. I am comfortable playing professional, working-class, athletic, service, managerial, American tourist, executive, driver, restaurant, hotel, and everyday character roles.
My background in sales required confidence, presence, improvisation, emotional control, and the ability to step into different environments and immediately look believable. I am comfortable walking into high-end hotels, business settings, service areas, warehouses, restaurants, and athletic environments while naturally adapting to the role and atmosphere.
Basic Details
Role Types I Can Naturally Portray
Professional / Business
- Businessman
- Sales executive
- Corporate trainer
- Manager
- Recruiter / HR specialist
- American client or consultant
Hospitality / Service
- Hotel guest
- Doorman / concierge type
- Chauffeur / private driver
- Waiter / banquet server
- Restaurant worker
- Delivery driver
Working-Class / Practical
- Maintenance worker
- Handyman
- Groundskeeper
- Landscaper
- Warehouse worker
- Machine technician
Sports / Physical Roles
- Baseball player / coach
- Fitness trainer
- Golfer / caddy
- American football player type
- Basketball / tennis / bowling / billiards player
- Athletic background performer
Relevant Work & Life Experience
Sales, Business & Training
- Business development
- Product development
- Corporate training
- Cold-calling for water company
- Natek – business development
- Property Dragon – sales
- Car sales
- Digimark
- Kigzi – product development / language-learning software
- Rosenberg and Associates – courier, office cleanout
Hospitality, Retail & Service
- Aéropostale – assistant store manager
- Talbots – stock room, assistant manager, fixture sales representative
- Sports Authority – sneaker sales
- Domino’s Pizza – delivery driver, occasional pizza maker
- Pasquale’s Restaurant – delivery driver, shift manager
- Waiter at banquet hall
- St. Joe’s – lunchroom food server / kitchen helper
- Skylands Park – hot dog and newspaper sales at minor league stadium
- Sussex County Fair – short order cook
- Conroy’s Florist – delivery, wedding package sales
Maintenance, Outdoor & Manual Work
- Machine technician
- Private handyman work – lawn maintenance, painting, drywall, light plumbing, light electrical
- Queen of Peace – groundskeeper, painting, maintenance, grass cutting
- Volunteer carnival ground assistant – Queen of Peace
- Camp Auxilium – weed-whacking, painting, custodial work
- Landscaping work – tree removal, mowing, weed-whacking
- Atlas Materials – sales, maintenance, roof repair, tree removal, painting
- Weed-whacking at Agrogarant
Education, Events & Hosting
- ESL instructor
- Wyzant – private ESL tutoring
- Sineva – English teaching, business development
- Englishers – event planning, hosting, business development
- Event planning
- Pope John reunion – event organizer
- Adjudicator host – Stara Zagora dance event
- Usher at Queen of Peace
- Graphic design and video editing
Special Skills
Sports
- Baseball – college-level, top Division III player
- Assistant baseball coach – Pope John
- Golf – low 80s
- Tennis – good level
- Basketball – good level
- Wrestling experience
- Billiards – very strong
- Bowling – several 200+ games
- Ice skating – decent to good
- Soccer – able to kick approximately 50 yards
- American football – can throw approximately 50 yards, punt approximately 50 yards, and kick field goals around 40 yards
Physical / Athletic
- Athletic build
- Former 7.0-second 60-yard dash at prime
- Current estimated 60-yard dash: approximately 7.2–7.3
- Bench press around 240 lbs
- Farmer’s walk up to approximately 350 lbs
- Gym training background
- Physical therapy knowledge from college baseball rehab experience
Practical & Performance Skills
- Juggling three balls with proper form for 3–4 minutes
- Whistling
- Basic massage skills
- Landscaping and tree removal
- Painting, drywall, light plumbing, light electrical
- Driving and chauffeur presentation
- Comfortable with long workdays when needed
Learning & Preparation
- Fast learner with strong understanding of repetition, spacing effect, and skill acquisition
- Strong memorization and disciplined preparation
- Analytical, detail-oriented, and perfectionistic
- Experienced English teacher with strong communication skills
- Comfortable researching best practices and preparing deeply for a role
High-End Service & Driving Knowledge
Well-versed in the Ritz-Carlton service method, Rolls-Royce white-glove chauffeuring standards, and National Safety Council defensive driving principles. Experienced in private chauffeur work, customer service, professional presentation, discretion, and high-end client-facing environments.
Emotional Range & Acting Strengths
I have strong emotional access and can connect deeply to emotional material. I am comfortable portraying confidence, authority, vulnerability, regret, grief, pride, intensity, humor, and everyday realism. My sales background has given me extensive experience stepping into a role, adapting to a room, reading people, improvising naturally, and projecting confidence under pressure.
I am especially suited for character roles where authenticity matters: the American businessman, the driver, the hotel guest, the doorman, the waiter, the coach, the salesman, the maintenance man, the manager, the father figure, or the working professional with real life experience.
Comfort Levels / Boundaries
Comfortable with physical roles, sports-based roles, practical/manual-work roles, emotional scenes, and certain body-comfort or nudity-related situations, depending on the project and context.
Ideal Casting Opportunities
- Commercials requiring a native English-speaking American male
- Film or TV productions shooting in Bulgaria needing American characters
- Featured extra roles with professional, hotel, chauffeur, sports, or business context
- Small speaking roles of 1–10 lines
- Character roles requiring real-world credibility rather than purely theatrical presentation
- Roles involving sales, driving, hospitality, sports, coaching, business, service, maintenance, or emotional authenticity
Contact
Available locally in Sofia, Bulgaria for appropriate commercial, film, television, background, featured extra, and small speaking-role opportunities.
Stage Name: Joe Nyri
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Email / Phone:joe@captik.com / 0876 176 154
