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A Gemini Award winner last year for her starring role in CBC-TV's Nights Below Station Street, her stage credits include an achingly fragile turn in The Glass Menagerie at London's Grand Theatre and a feisty role in Go Chicken Go's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.
- ↑ Glenn Sumi (2001-08-30). "Liisa Repo-Martell: She's poured her soul into Soulpepper's classics, but is the city's most serious actor having a good time?". Now . Retrieved 2012-05-17.
Perhaps her commitment comes from her parents, political activists and academics who co-founded This Magazine (then called This Magazine is About Schools). "It was almost a religious upbringing," says Repo-Martell. "They had this sense of justice, of utopia. They were passionate. It was inspiring".
- ↑ "Company Theatre: Liisa Repo-Martell". Company Theatre.
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- ↑ "The One: Chris Abraham & Liisa Repo-Martell". National Post. 2012-02-11. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
