Liisa Repo-Martell

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Liisa Repo-Martell
BornFebruary 1971 (age 53)
OccupationActress
Years active1988-present
Known for Gemini award winner

Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist. [1]

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Repo-Martell's parents, Satu Repo and George Martell, were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as This Magazine . [2]

Repo-Martell grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. She received a Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street. [1] She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint . [3]

She portrayed Mrs. Genest, the estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), in the 2006 made-for-TV-movie Jesse Stone: Night Passage . [4] In February 2012, the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband; actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple". [5] Repo-Mertell portrayed Sir Reginald Hargreeves' wife Abigail in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Cocktail Young girl in deli
1989 American Boyfriends Julie La Belle
1992 Unforgiven Faith
1996Can I Get a Witness?SamShort film
The English Patient Jan
2000Washed UpBrains
InfidelityMaidShort film
Hold-UpWoman
2003BastardsFinnie
2004 Touch of Pink Delia
2007Diamonds in a BucketVivianShort film
Lars and the Real Girl Laurel
2015 King Lear Regan
2016 Lavender Jennifer
2020 Flashback Mrs. Fitzell
Happy Place Nina

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1989 Street Legal Kate Quinlan"Soul Custody"
1992The Good FightSandraTV film
1993 E.N.G. Terry"The Big Sleepover"
Class of '96 Miranda"The Adventures of Pat's Man and Robin"
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Patty"The Lacquered Box"
1994TekWar: TekLabGalahadTV film
Lives of Girls and Women Naomi
1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Trish"May I Walk with You"
1996Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw YearsBilly Jean"Partners"
Hidden in America AngelaTV film
Critical ChoicesAmy
1997 Once a Thief Nikki"Rave On"
1998 Thanks of a Grateful Nation Kristie SchuermannTV film
Nights Below Station Street Adele Walsh
1998–1999 Emily of New Moon Maida Flynn"Falling Angels" & "The Return of Maida Flynn"
1999 Earth: Final Conflict Amanda Hayes"Volunteers"
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Jenny Turner"Body and Soul"
2000 Strong Medicine Jessie"Pilot"
2002Scared SilentCarole BakelinTV film
2003 Missing Stacy Drake"Thin Air"
2005–2006 This Is Wonderland Sandy FisherRecurring role
2006 Jesse Stone: Night Passage Carole GenestTV film
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Puppets Who Kill Lottie"Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation"
2007 Trapped! First Officer Maiju Saari"Ocean Emergency"
2008 ReGenesis Marie Gervais"The Kiss"
2009 Diverted Eileen NorthbrookTV film
The Listener Rebecca Cahill"My Sister's Keeper"
2010 Republic of Doyle Shannie Malone"The Fall of the Republic"
Flashpoint Claire Williams"Acceptable Risk"
2011, 2020 Murdoch Mysteries Lydia Howland/Bridget Mulcahy"Dead End Street"/"Rigid Silence"
2011CommittedDonneymeadeTV film
2012 King Dot Fuller"Freddy Boise"
2013 Cracked Angie Coturno"Spirited Away"
2014 Remedy Cynthia"Homecoming"
2016 Saving Hope Tracy"Not Fade Away"
2019, 2022–2024 The Umbrella Academy Abigail Hargreeves7 episodes
2019 Anne with an E Mrs. Rose"The Summit of My Desires" and "Great and Sudden Change"

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References

  1. 1 2 "Actress comfortable in Chekhov's shorts". Toronto Star. 1999-11-11. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-17. 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.
  2. 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".
  3. "Company Theatre: Liisa Repo-Martell". Company Theatre.
  4. credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie
  5. "The One: Chris Abraham & Liisa Repo-Martell". National Post. 2012-02-11. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.