Liisa Repo-Martell | |
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Born | February 1971 (age 53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1988-present |
Known for | Gemini award winner |
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist. [1]
Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools , an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as "This". [2]
Liisa grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s.
Her 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 played Mrs. Genest, estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin) in the 2006 Jesse Stone: Night Passage made-for-TV-movie. [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]
She currently portrays Reginald Hargreeves wife Abigail in seasons 1, 3 & 4 of The Umbrella Academy
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | American Boyfriends | Julie La Belle | |
1992 | Unforgiven | Faith | |
1996 | Can I Get a Witness? | Sam | Short film |
The English Patient | Jan | ||
2000 | Washed Up | Brains | |
Infidelity | Maid | Short film | |
Hold-Up | Woman | ||
2003 | Bastards | Finnie | |
2004 | Touch of Pink | Delia | |
2007 | Diamonds in a Bucket | Vivian | Short film |
Lars and the Real Girl | Laurel | ||
2015 | King Lear | Regan | |
2016 | Lavender | Jennifer | |
2020 | Flashback | Mrs. Fitzell | |
Happy Place | Nina |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Street Legal | Kate Quinlan | "Soul Custody" |
1992 | The Good Fight | Sandra | TV 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" | |
1994 | TekWar: TekLab | Galahad | TV film |
Lives of Girls and Women | Naomi | ||
1995 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Trish | "May I Walk with You" |
1996 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Billy Jean | "Partners" |
Hidden in America | Angela | TV film | |
Critical Choices | Amy | ||
1997 | Once a Thief | Nikki | "Rave On" |
1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Kristie Schuermann | TV 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" |
2002 | Scared Silent | Carole Bakelin | TV film |
2003 | Missing | Stacy Drake | "Thin Air" |
2005-2006 | This Is Wonderland | Sandy Fisher | Recurring role |
2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Carole Genest | TV 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 Northbrook | TV 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" |
2011 | Committed | Donneymeade | TV 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 | The Umbrella Academy | Abigail Hargreeves | "The White Violin" / "Oblivion" |
2019 | Anne with an E | Mrs. Rose | "The Summit of My Desires" & "Great and Sudden Change" |
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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.
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".