Grace Glowicki

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Grace Glowicki
Grace Glowicki at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (1).jpg
Glowicki at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
Alma mater McGill University
OccupationsActress and filmmaker
Notable work Tito
Her Friend Adam
Dead Lover

Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. [1]

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Glowicki directed and starred in the feature film Tito (2019), which was nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards. She is also known for starring in the short film Her Friend Adam (2016), which earned her a special jury award for best actress in a short film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She has also written, directed, and starred in the feature films Tito (2019) and Dead Lover , the latter of which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. [2]

Career

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), The Heirloom (2024), Measures for a Funeral (2024) and Honey Bunch (2025) 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.

She attracted notice 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. [5]

In 2020, Glowicki received Telefilm financing for her sophomore feature Dead Lover , which she worked on for five years before it premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. [2]

In 2025, she starred in Honey Bunch , directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, which had its world premiere at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlinale Special. [6]

Personal life

Glowicki is in a relationship with actor and filmmaker Ben Petrie, her costar in Her Friend Adam, Tito and The Heirloom. [7] They have one child together. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Fish Griwkowsky, "Edmonton-born actress wins at Sundance". Edmonton Journal , February 2, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Kay, Jeremy (2020-08-18). "Telefilm Canada announces 16 projects for 2020-21 Talent To Watch programme". Screen. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  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. ↑ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada . Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  6. ↑ Economou, Vassilis (December 17, 2024). "The Berlinale announces the first Berlinale Special, Panorama and Generation titles". Cineuropa . Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Canadian filmmakers Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie turn love and art into a grave affair". Richmond News. 2025-09-12. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
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