Valerie Pearson

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Valerie Pearson is a Canadian actress from Calgary, Alberta. [1] She is most noted for her performance in the 1991 film Solitaire , for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992. [2]

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Career

Pearson has been most prominently associated with stage roles in Calgary and Edmonton, including productions of Edward Connell's Welcome to Theatre Fabulous!, [3] Giselle Lemire and Robert Astle's Mama Never Told Me That, [4] Patricia Benedict's Good Government, [5] Thornton Wilder's Our Town , [6] Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets, [1] and Ron Chambers's Marg Szkaluba (Pissy's Wife). [7] She won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in 1992, for Lion in the Streets. [8]

Her other film credits have included Cowboys Don't Cry , Dead Bang , The Right Kind of Wrong, and Chicks with Sticks . [9]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Cowboys Don't Cry Janet
1989 Dead Bang Helpful Person
1991 Solitaire Maggie
2002 The Reckoning Woman at Play
2004 Chicks with Sticks Doris
2013 The Right Kind of Wrong Brenda

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991De Zomer Van '45Moeder van JimEpisode #1.3
1994While Justice SleepsAlma MunozTelevision film
1997Seduction in a Small TownWilla Jenks
1997 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Ms. RutfieldEpisode: "Honey, You're Living in the Past"
1998Oklahoma City: A Survivor's StoryWoman at ImplosionTelevision film
2000Papa's AngelsReverend's Wife
2001 Anatomy of a Hate Crime Martha
2003Another CountryMagistratw
2012The Horses of McBrideSadie

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References

  1. 1 2 Liz Nicholls, "Savagery in the urban maze; Actress plays five not-so-nice people in Lion in the Streets". Edmonton Journal , March 26, 1992.
  2. Craig MacInnis, "Naked Lunch tops the Genie nominations". Toronto Star , October 14, 1992.
  3. Liz Nicholls, "Ruefully frantic musical scores with little-theatre headaches". Edmonton Journal , April 22, 1989.
  4. Liam Lacey, "Theatre Reviews: Mama Never Told Me That". The Globe and Mail , March 7, 1991.
  5. Liz Nicholls, "Doublespeak even Orwell would appreciate; Good Government a satire that's frantic, fun, and at times a reflection of Alberta's political scene". Edmonton Journal , February 25, 1991.
  6. Liz Nicholls, "Our Town wears its years lightly; Citadel production resonates between the tiny and the infinite". Edmonton Journal , November 7, 1993.
  7. Liz Nicholls, "Country musical hums with sadness". Edmonton Journal , May 21, 1994.
  8. "Phoenix takes nine awards". Edmonton Journal , June 30, 1992.
  9. "Chicks with Sticks". Northernstars. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Independent Visual and Digital Media Association. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.