Deragh Campbell

Deragh Campbell
Campbell at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1989-05-04) 4 May 1989 (age 36) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupations	Actress, filmmaker
Years active	2013–present
Known for	Collaborations with Sofia Bohdanowicz and Kazik Radwanski
Parent(s)	Benedict Campbell Jackie Maxwell

Deragh Campbell (born May 4, 1989) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.

Campbell is known for her performances and filmmaking work in the independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz —including Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), Point and Line to Plane (2020), and Measures for a Funeral (2024)—have screened at film festivals internationally. Campbell has also starred in three of Kazik Radwanski's feature films; she played a small role in How Heavy This Hammer (2015), the lead role in Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), and opposite Matt Johnson in Matt and Mara (2024).

Campbell received the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association and Best Actress in a Canadian Film from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Early life

Born on May 4, 1989 in Toronto and raised in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ^[1] Campbell is the daughter of actor Benedict Campbell and artistic director of the Shaw Festival Jackie Maxwell. ^[2]

Career

Campbell made her film debut in Matthew Porterfield's 2013 independent feature film I Used to Be Darker. ^[3] She was named as one of the Toronto International Film Festival's "Rising Stars" in 2015, alongside Stephan James, Aliocha Schneider, and Karelle Tremblay. ^[4] Since then, she has appeared in several films, including How Heavy This Hammer (2015), and Fail to Appear (2017). ^[3]

Campbell's collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz have screened at festivals around the world. Since 2018, she has portrayed the character of Audrey Benac in five of Bohdanowicz's films: Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), Point and Line to Plane (2020), A Woman Escapes (2022), and Measures for a Funeral (2024). Campbell was a credited co-director of MS Slavic 7 as well. ^[5]

In 2019, Campbel starred in Kazik Radwanski's third feature film, Anne at 13,000 Ft. , which premiered in the Platform Prize competition and received an honourable mention from the jury at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. ^{[6] [7]}

Campbell starred opposite Michaela Kurimsky in Hannah Cheesman's short film, Succor; the short film was an official selection for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. ^{[8] [9]}

Campbell with her Matt and Mara director Kazik Radwinski and her co-star Matt Johnson at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

In 2023, Campbell appeared in Houston Bone's directorial debut, I Don't Know Who You Are , which premiered in the Discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival. ^{[10] [11]} She also starred in Lucy Kerr's directorial debut, Family Portrait, premiering at the 76th Locarno Film Festival. ^[12]

In 2024, Campbell starred opposite Matt Johnson in Radwanski's fourth feature film, Matt and Mara . ^[13] That year, Campbell also reprised the role of Audrey Benac under Bohdanowicz's direction in Measures for a Funeral. In this film, Benac is a graduate student researching the life and career of classical violinist Kathleen Parlow. ^[14] The film premiered in the Centrepiece program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. ^[15]

Pledge

In September 2025, she signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." ^[16]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	I Used to Be Darker	Taryn
2014	Person to Person	Julia
2015	Stinking Heaven	Lucy
	Beach Week	Yeardley
	How Heavy This Hammer	Schoolteacher
	O, Brazen Age	Anna
2016	The Other Half	Anna
	Never Eat Alone	Audrey Benac	Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actress in a Canadian Film
	The Intestine	Patricia
	Let Your Heart Be Light
2017	Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog	Camille
	Mobile Homes	Actress
	Fail to Appear	Isolde	Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actress in a Canadian Film
	All Shook Up	Slain beauty queen
2018	It's Hard to Be Human	Victoria
	Veslemøy's Song	Audrey Benac
2019	MS Slavic 7
	Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You	Emily
	Project Ithaca	Sera
	Anne at 13,000 Ft.	Anne	Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actress Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actress in a Canadian Film
	Pick	Teacher
	Chubby	Heather
	Foreign Powers
2020	Point and Line to Plane	Audrey Benac
	Succor	Abigail
2022	You Can Live Forever	Amanda
	A Woman Escapes	Audrey Benac
	So Much Tenderness	Nancy
2023	I Don't Know Who You Are	Agnes
	Family Portrait	Katy
2024	Matt and Mara	Mara
	Measures for a Funeral	Audrey Benac
TBA	Two Cuckolds Go Swimming	Molly
	The Christmas Card	Katy
	An Evening Song (for three voices)	Martha

References

1. Chan, Tim (September 9, 2015). "Meet the four up-and-coming Canadian actors in TIFF's Rising Stars program". The Globe and Mail .
2. Hertz, Barry (September 6, 2024). "The family matters of Jackie Maxwell and Deragh Campbell, the mother-daughter duo dominating Canadian culture". The Globe and Mail .
3. Andrew Parker, "Want to know what’s next for Canadian cinema? Look for Deragh Campbell". TheGATE.ca , September 5, 2019.
4. Cassandra Szklarski, "Films from Rozema, Falardeau, McDonald, Maddin highlight TIFF's Canuck lineup". Canadian Press, August 5, 2015.
5. Mantagni, Ian (February 20, 2019). "Berlinale first look: MS Slavic 7 draws strength from the written word". Sight and Sound . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
6. "Anne at 13,000 ft". TIFF. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
7. Barry Hertz (September 5, 2019). "TIFF 2019: With Anne at 13,000 ft., Kazik Radwanski and Deragh Campbell hit the heights of Canada's micro-budget indie movement". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved November 11, 2019.
8. "Short Cuts Programme 05". TIFF. Archived from the original on 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
9. Leiber, Sarah Jae. "Hannah Cheesman and Aiken Heart Film's SUCCOR Bows at TIFF20". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
10. Talty, Caitie (2023-09-18). "TIFF 2023: Our Review of 'I Don't Know Who You Are'". In The Seats. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
11. Rizov, Vadim (2023-09-09). "TIFF 2023: Evil Does Not Exist, I Don't Know Who You Are | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine | Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
12. Petkova, Savina (June 28, 2024). "Purgatory, Almost: Intimacy as Ritual in "Family Portrait"". Mubi.
13. Roxborough, Scott (2024-01-22). "Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael Garcia Bernal Films Set for 2024 Berlinale". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
14. Jennie Punter, "Totem Films Nabs World Sales Rights to Sofia Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral,’ Releases Exclusive Clip Ahead of Toronto Premiere". Variety , August 27, 2024.
15. Jennie Punter, "Totem Films Nabs World Sales Rights to Sofia Bohdanowicz’s ‘Measures for a Funeral,’ Releases Exclusive Clip Ahead of Toronto Premiere". Variety , August 27, 2024.
16. "Film Workers Pledge to End Complicity". Film Workers For Palestine. Retrieved 2025-09-09.

External links

• Deragh Campbell at IMDb