Jackie Torrens

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Jackie Torrens is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] She was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Acting

She began her career as an actress, most notably being cast as the frumpy but shrewd office manager Wanda Mattice in the television series

Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Performance by a Female, Television at the 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards in 2002.[7]

In 2013 she was cast as social worker Drucie Mackay in the television series Sex & Violence, for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.[8]

She has also won an award from the Nova Scotia chapter of the

ACTRA Awards for her performance in the film Across the Line, and was nominated for both Sex & Violence and the film Heartbeat
.

Writing

Her stage plays have included Live! Nude! Animal!,[9] Five Fables,[10] Strange Antiques,[11] That Is My Heart[12] and Georama.[13]

She has received several Robert Merritt Award nominations both as a playwright and as a stage actress.

Filmmaking

In 2014 she released the documentary film Edge of East.[14] With Jessica Brown, she is a partner in Peep Media, and has also released the documentary films My Week on Welfare,[15] Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown, Radical Age and Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille.[16]

Bernie Langille won the award for Best Atlantic Documentary at the 2022

FIN Atlantic Film Festival.[17]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. Halifax Chronicle-Herald
    , December 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Alex Strachan, "Mercer's Made in Canada is satire for a slow night". Vancouver Sun, October 16, 2000.
  3. Canadian Press
    , October 29, 2001.
  4. Halifax Daily News
    , November 5, 2002.
  5. Montreal Gazette
    , December 14, 2004.
  6. Canada NewsWire
    , September 9, 2003.
  7. Halifax Daily News
    , March 19, 2002.
  8. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Performance categories". Playback, January 13, 2015.
  9. Halifax Daily News
    , April 23, 1999.
  10. Halifax Daily News
    , February 5, 2002.
  11. Halifax Daily News
    , March 9, 1996.
  12. ^ Shawn Ohler, "Tales From The Glockenspiel; That Is My Heart". Edmonton Journal, August 20, 1996.
  13. Halifax Daily News
    , May 8, 2003.
  14. Halifax Chronicle-Herald
    , June 21, 2014.
  15. Halifax Chronicle-Herald
    , August 28, 2015.
  16. Point of View
    , April 30, 2022.
  17. ^ Stephen Cooke, "Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Bernie Langille among Atlantic International Film Festival award winners". SaltWire Network, September 22, 2022.

External links

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