Liza Balkan

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Liza Balkan
Occupation(s)Actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer

Liza Balkan is a Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer. [1]

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Career

She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in Still the Night (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour). [1] She is also known as the voice actress for Amy Mizuno from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon . [2]

On the silver screen, she had a role in Asghar Massombagi's Khaled (2001) and appeared in Atom Egoyan's critically acclaimed drama Remember (2015), portraying the daughter-in-law of Christopher Plummer's protagonist in the latter.

Balkan teaches at the University of Windsor, located in Windsor, Ontario. [1]

Directing credits
Performances

Voice roles

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Liza Balkan". University of Windsor . Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. Hal Erickson, Hal (July 2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003 (via Google Books). McFarland & Co. p. 705. ISBN   978-0-7864-2256-2 . Retrieved 22 May 2011.
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