Karen LeBlanc

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Karen LeBlanc
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LeBlanc in 2017
OccupationsActress, singer
Years active1992–present

Karen LeBlanc is a Canadian musical theatre actress and singer.

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Early life

LeBlanc grew up in Tottenham, Ontario to family from Nova Scotia. She attended the musical theatre program at Sheridan College. [1] [2]

Career

Starting with a minor role in the 1992 television movie Split Images, LeBlanc's credits include guest appearances in television series including Trailer Park Boys , Producing Parker , Soul Food , Mutant X , and most notable The Playboy Club (2011) playing Tina Turner and singing two of Turner's signature songs, "Shake a Tail Feather" and "I Want to Be Made Over". [3] As regular, she first starred in the final season of the CBC sitcom Material World from 1992 to 1993. She appeared in 2000 fantasy-comedy film Santa Who? starring Leslie Nielsen. She co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies, including Snap Decision (2001), Guilt by Association (2002), Lucky Day (2002), Martha: Behind Bars (2005), Knights of the South Bronx (2005), and Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012). On stage, she has appeared in productions of Outrageous! , [4] Rent . [5] and Cinderella . [5] She has also performed as a backing vocalist for Chaka Khan, Rik Emmett and Glass Tiger. [5]

LeBlanc starred in the short-lived the CW drama series Runaway in 2006. For her recurring role in ReGenesis , she was nominated for Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series in 2008. [6] In 2009, LeBlanc received positive reviews and Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in the drama film Nurse.Fighter.Boy . Her other film credits include Make It Happen (2008) and Dolan's Cadillac (2009). Also that year, she starred in the ABC drama series, Defying Gravity . [7] Her other series regular credits including Soul (2009), Shattered (2010–11), Cracked (2013), Insomnia (2018), Frontier (2017–18), and Ransom (2018-19). She also had a recurring roles in Motive , Trailer Park Boys and Killjoys . As regular, LeBlanc starred on the second season of Peacock series Departure in 2021, and in 2022 starred in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera The Kings of Napa . [8] Also in 2022 had the role of as Dr. Lilly Crawford, in CBS's Fire Country. [9]

She was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for the web series For the Record . [10]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2008 Gemini Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series ReGenesis Nominated [11]
2009 ACTRA Award Outstanding Performance - Female Nurse.Fighter.Boy Nominated [12] [13]
Atlantic Film Festival Best ActressWon [14]
Canadian Screen Awards Best Actress Nominated [15]
2022 Canadian Screen Awards Best Supporting Performance, Web Program or Series For the Record Nominated [10]
2023 Canadian Screen Awards Best Supporting Performance in a Drama Program or Series Departure Nominated [16]

References

  1. ↑ Before Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Karen LeBlanc wore many hats The Georgia Straight
  2. ↑ Biography Karenleblanc.com
  3. ↑ Mike Hale (2011-09-18). "Cigars? Cigarettes? Catty Rivalries?". New York Times . Archived from the original on 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  4. ↑ "New Musical, Outrageous, Has World Premiere in Toronto Sept. 19-Oct. 21". Playbill , September 19, 2000.
  5. 1 2 3 Ken Eisner (2009-02-04). "Before Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Karen LeBlanc wore many hats". Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Karen LeBlanc". IMDb.
  7. ↑ Lesley Goldberg (2012-03-09). "ABC's 'Beauty and the Beast' Adds 'Defying Gravity' Actress". The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  8. ↑ Petski, Denise (April 8, 2021). "'The Kings Of Napa': Ebonee Noel, Rance Nix, Karen LeBlanc, Yaani King Mondschein To Star In OWN Drama".
  9. ↑ Coffman, Taylor (2023-01-17). "Amazon Adds Sharon Taylor to 'Cross' for Re-Casting". The Nerd Stash. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  10. 1 2 Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada , February 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ "The Gemini nominees are..." at Playback: Canada's Broadcast and Production Journal (29 Sept, 2008) Retrieved from ProQuest   196342946
  12. ↑ "Dreamer. Director. Acting Coach" by Jennie Punter, The Globe and Mail (9 Feb, 2009) Retrieved from ProQuest   382653468
  13. ↑ "Actors nominate Baby, Nurse" by Marise Strauss at playbackonline.ca
  14. ↑ "Quebec tale of 10-year-old boy wins prizes at Atlantic film fest". Canadian Press, September 19, 2008.
  15. ↑ Cassandra Szklarski, "Denis Villeneuve's 'Polytechnique' lands leading 11 Genie nominations". Canadian Press, March 1, 2010.
  16. ↑ Vlessing, Etan (February 22, 2023). "Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama 'The Porter' Leads With 19 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter .
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