Grace Glowicki

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Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. [1] She is most noted for directing and starring in the 2019 film Tito , which was a shortlisted finalist for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. [2]

An alumna of McGill University, Glowicki moved to Toronto, Ontario after graduation. [3] She has acted in films including Hemorrhage (2012), The Oxbow Cure (2013), Her Friend Adam (2016), Suck It Up , Cardinals , We Forgot to Break Up (all 2017), Paper Year (2018), Raf (2019), Strawberry Mansion (2021), Until Branches Bend (2022), Booger (2023), and The Heirloom (2024), and in the web series Out with Dad and Carmilla .

In 2016, she was named by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of its four "Rising Stars" of the year, alongside Jared Abrahamson, Mylène Mackay and Sophie Nélisse. [4] She won a special jury award for best actress in a short film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival for Her Friend Adam, [1] and was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, for her performance in Cardinals.

In 2020, Grace received Telefilm financing for her sophomore feature Dead Lover. [5]

She has been in a relationship with actor and filmmaker Ben Petrie, her costar in Her Friend Adam, Tito and The Heirloom. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Fish Griwkowsky, "Edmonton-born actress wins at Sundance". Edmonton Journal , February 2, 2016.
  2. Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada . Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  3. "Canadas rising screen stars: 9 talents changing the stories we tell". Now , April 10, 2019.
  4. Renée Tse, "TIFF 2016: 4 Rising Stars to Watch Out For at This Year’s Festival". Fashion , September 7, 2016.
  5. Kay2020-08-18T18:59:00+01:00, Jeremy. "Telefilm Canada announces 16 projects for 2020-21 Talent To Watch programme". Screen. Retrieved 2024-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. Johanna Schneller, "Filmmaker Grace Glowicki on breaking norms and the secret to shooting 13-15 pages of script a day". CBC Arts, May 14, 2021.