Chapelle Jaffe

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Chapelle Jaffe is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for the television film One Night Stand , [1] and receiving a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for The Amateur . [2]

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Jaffe also was in the cast of the original production of One Night Stand at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. [3]

In 1977, Jaffe's acting in Red Emma brought her a nomination for an ACTRA Award for the best acting performance in TV. [4]

She was the editor of the first edition of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Who's Who in Canadian Film and Television directory. [5]

Jaffe also worked in the administrative dimension of entertainment, including being executive director of Vancouver's New Play Festival [6] and Playwrights Theatre Centre. [7]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1975MeKathy
1977 Who Has Seen the Wind Maggie O'Connal
1980 The Kidnapping of the President Valerie Martinelli
1981 Silence of the North The Red-Headed Lady
1981 The Amateur Gretchen
1983 The Dead Zone Nurse
1985Terminal ChoiceMrs. Dodson
1986 Confidential Amelia
1989 Millennium Council Member - Stockholm
1990 Defy Gravity Mary Fiddich
2002Fifty-FiftyMargaretShort
2004 The Butterfly Effect Madame Helga

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 Performance Emma Goldman Episode "Red Emma"
1978 One Night Stand DaisyTV film
1981The July GroupJanetTV film
1983 American Playhouse DjamillaEpisode: "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"
1985, 1988 Night Heat Arlene Elizabeth, Mrs. MetcalfeEpisodes: "Innocents", "Forgive Me Father"
1988 Diamonds Episode: "Where There's a Will"
1988 Friday the 13th: The Series Tanya SloaneEpisode: "Master of Disguise"
1988, 1990 Danger Bay NoreenEpisodes: "The Only Way Down Is Up", "Looking Back"
1989 Where the Spirit Lives Miss ApplebyTV film
1989–1992 E.N.G. Dr. ForbesEpisodes: "Pilot: Parts 1 & 2", "Payment in Kind", "Harvest"
1991Drop Dead GorgeousMrs. LewinTV film
1991Mark Twain and MeSarah HardwigTV film
1992 The Broken Cord Judy JensenTV film
1993 Street Legal Frances DoneffEpisode: "Forgiveness"
1994Sin & RedemptionEmma SimmsTV film
1994 Madison LucyEpisode: "Playing Solitaire"
1995 Harrison Bergeron Head House LadyTV film
1996A Kidnapping in the FamilyJudge HarpeTV film
1996 Sliders GladysEpisode: "El Sid"
1996ReckoningMadame DurandTV film
1996 Poltergeist: The Legacy Miss ClarkEpisode: "Doppelganger"
1998 Cold Squad Myra FitchEpisode: "Jane Klosky"
1998–99 The X-Files Dr. PatouEpisodes: "The Red and the Black", "Two Fathers"
2001 Andromeda Constanza StarkEpisode: "Forced Perspective"
2004 This Is Wonderland Episode: "1.6"
2004 The Grid Catherine CrossTV miniseries
2004 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye ClerkEpisode: "The Actor"
2007 The Dresden Files Sister BeatriceEpisode: "Rules of Engagement"
2007 Instant Star Charity WomanEpisode: "Heart of Gold"
2009 Flashpoint Mrs. HillEpisode: "Perfect Storm"
2010 Lost Girl MarthaEpisode: "ArachnoFaebia"
2010 Being Erica Joyce FitzpatrickEpisodes: "The Rabbit Hole", "Being Adam", "Adam's Family"
2014The Christmas ParadeWendy ThomasTV film

References

  1. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN   0-7737-3238-1.
  2. "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail , February 4, 1982.
  3. Hicks, Wessely (20 August 1977). "Who Needs Al Pacino?". The Gazette. Canada, Montreal. p. 56. Retrieved 13 March 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "The ACTRA Awards". Edmonton Journal. Canada, Edmonton, Alberta. 7 April 1977. p. 108. Retrieved 13 March 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "'Editor by day, killer by night'". The Globe and Mail , January 28, 1986.
  6. Birnie, Peter (2 May 2002). "Aaron Buskowsky leads off the 28th Vancouver New Play Festival with a fiddle". The Vancouver Sun. Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver. p. 31. Retrieved 13 March 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Forums This Week". The Vancouver Sun. Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver. 30 December 1999. p. 52. Retrieved 13 March 2019 via Newspapers.com.