Adriana Maggs

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Adriana Maggs
Born Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Occupationactress, screenwriter, director
NationalityCanadian
Years active2000s-present
Notable works Grown Up Movie Star
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Adriana Maggs is a Canadian film and television actress, writer and director, best known for her debut feature film Grown Up Movie Star . [1]

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The daughter of academic and poet Randall Maggs, [2] she is originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. [1] She was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland's Grenfell College campus in Corner Brook, where she was a classmate of Sherry White, Susan Kent and Jonny Harris. [3]

She has appeared as an actress in the television series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching , Three Chords from the Truth and Call Me Fitz and the films Down to the Dirt and Rabbittown , and she has written for the television series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, Call Me Fitz, Three Chords from the Truth, The Wilkinsons , The Smart Woman Survival Guide , Rookie Blue and King .

She was a Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011 for Grown Up Movie Star, [4] and was a cowinner of the Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009 for Three Chords from the Truth. [5]

Maggs directed season two of How to Buy a Baby . [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "She knows no boundaries". The Globe and Mail , January 24, 2010.
  2. "NIGHT WORK: THE SAWCHUK POEMS – an interview with Randall Maggs". The Toronto Quarterly, September 2010.
  3. "Meet 22 Minutes’ Susan Kent: Misfits, weirdos and (of course) Celine Dion". The Globe and Mail , December 2, 2013.
  4. "Genie Awards go from 'huh' to 'wow'". National Post , February 3, 2011.
  5. "Local actor wins Gemini as part of show she wrote". The Western Star , November 19, 2009.
  6. Wilner, Norman (2019-11-06). "The 10 best TV shows to stream on CBC Gem". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-03.