ABOUT ME

Gender     Female

Industry Arts

Occupation Acting mainly, on-camera and voiceover, but a long history including theatre and film writing and directing

Location Vancouver, BC, Canada

Introduction I live with my husband and two boys in a renovated 110 year-old house in East Van’s cultural blender, Commercial Drive. An average day outside of family time includes recording in my home voice studio, maybe doing an on-camera audition or voice job in town, or taking a float plane over to Vancouver Island to shoot Spooksville, a new TV show in which I play mom to a teenage genius, one of the series’ leads. Yoga class several times a week. I’m muscling my way out of a long bout of writer’s block, and plan to get back on that horse presently. I’ve written and directed short films and theatre, and had feature films in development. I also had the unique experience of co-writing a story that was used in a Stargate SG-1 episode that saw my recurring character Nirrti killed off. I’ve acted for thirty years, on stage, in films and television and I still love it fiercely, even though it can be a bitter business at times. Kind of like rhubarb.


Interests Metaphysics, cooking, culture, armchair science, psychology and philosophy, feng shui, gardening (although it’s been a while since I really got my hands dirty), yoga, cats


Favourite Films Groundhog Day, Amelie, Coen Brothers’s pictures especially Blood Simple and Fargo, Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson’s films in particular the long European release version of The Big Blue and the original La Femme Nikita, Hitchcock’s films on the whole, pretty much all the old song and dance movies with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse, everything I’ve seen by Pedro Almodovar, Denys Arcand’s films especially Jesus of Montreal, Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing


Favourite Music Bob Marley, Bach (especially the Brandenburg concertos, Vivaldi, Getz/Gilberto, Thelonius Monk, Chet Baker, Leonard Cohen, Sean Paul, 50 Cent, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Peggy Lee


Favourite Books Everything Dostoevsky has written in particular The Idiot, The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts


Favourite Plays Many by David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley, Tom Walmsley, Shakespeare especially Hamlet and King Lear, The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone, Book of Mormon by Matt Stone and Trey Parker


Favourite TV Rome, Game of Thrones, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Project Runway, most darn cooking shows especially Top Chef, The Voice, and I’ve never enjoyed acting in a TV show more than Stargate SG-1.

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