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- ↑ Mediamikes Susanna Fournier chats about playing Zoe in Syfy’s “Being Human”
- ↑ Nestruck, J Kelly (8 May 2018). "Review: Lulu bites into, then tears apart, a classic play about sex and death". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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