Sabine Karsenti

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Sabine Karsenti
Born (1974-09-01) September 1, 1974 (age 50)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationActress
Years active1990–2010

Sabine Karsenti is a French Canadian retired actress. Karsenti has played in both film and television, in French and in English from Montreal to Los Angeles.

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Career

On the big screen, Karsenti has been in the role of Chrissie in Battlefield Earth . [1] She also held several other leading roles, including The Favorite Game, Musketeers Forever and Bonjour Timothy , shot in New Zealand. Karsenti has had smaller roles in feature films such as Cadavre Exquis première édition, presented at the World Film Festival of Montreal in 2006. She was also part of the distribution of American films Time Bomb and The Perfect Marriage.

On the small screen, Karsenti starred in the series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven in which she played Shelly Webster.

Personal life

Karsenti graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 Laura Laur
1995Silent HunterLaura
1995Size 8 1/2JodieShort Film
1995 Bonjour Timothy Michelle Dubois
1996 A Cry in the Night (Le Cri de la nuit)Stéphanie
1998 Chance or Coincidence
1998Elysian FieldsWaitress 1Short Film
1998The Girl Next DoorJulieTV movie
1998Musketeers ForeverMalila
2000 Battlefield Earth Chrissy
2003The Favorite GameTamara
2004Premier juillet, le filmKate
2006BethuneFrances CampbellTV movie
2006 Time Bomb Deanne MitchellTV movie
2006The Perfect MarriageKendraTV movie
2006Cadavre Exquis première éditionMaya
2007Til Lies Do Us PartRebeccaTV movie
2007 The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons)Infirmière de Lucille
2010 City of Shadows (La Cité)Malika

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys SeraEpisode: "The Wedding of Alcmene"
1998–1999 The Crow: Stairway to Heaven Shelley Webster22 episodes
2002Sacred GroundEpisode: The Lesser of Evils
2006 Naked Josh WandaEpisode: Beating the Rap
2007 Stephen King's Dead Zone NancyEpisode: Outcome

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