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| Occupation(s) | Actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer |
Liza Balkan is a Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer. [1]
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]
Voice roles
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