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Jackie Torrens is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [1] She was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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Acting

She began her career as an actress, most notably being cast as the frumpy but shrewd office manager Wanda Mattice in the television series Made in Canada in 1998. [2] Along with the rest of the show's core ensemble, she is a three-time Gemini Award winner for Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series, winning at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001, [3] the 17th Gemini Awards in 2002, [4] and the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004. [5] They were also nominated, but did not win, at the 18th Gemini Awards in 2003, [6] and Torrens was individually a Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Performance by a Female, Television at the 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards in 2002. [7]

In 2013 she was cast as social worker Drucie Mackay in the television series Sex & Violence , for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015. [8]

She has also won an award from the Nova Scotia chapter of the ACTRA Awards for her performance in the film Across the Line , and was nominated for both Sex & Violence and the film Heartbeat .

Writing

Her stage plays have included Live! Nude! Animal!, [9] Five Fables, [10] Strange Antiques, [11] That Is My Heart [12] and Georama. [13]

She has received several Robert Merritt Award nominations both as a playwright and as a stage actress.

Filmmaking

In 2014 she released the documentary film Edge of East. [14] With Jessica Brown, she is a partner in Peep Media, and has also released the documentary films My Week on Welfare, [15] Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown, Radical Age and Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille . [16]

Bernie Langille won the award for Best Atlantic Documentary at the 2022 FIN Atlantic Film Festival. [17]

Filmography

Film

Television

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References

  1. ↑ "Jackie Torrens". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , December 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Alex Strachan, "Mercer's Made in Canada is satire for a slow night". Vancouver Sun , October 16, 2000.
  3. ↑ John McKay, "Da Vinci's Inquest and Nuremberg big winners after three-night Gemini fest". Canadian Press, October 29, 2001.
  4. ↑ Marla Cranston, "Gemini dream: Local TV productions win bushel of awards". Halifax Daily News , November 5, 2002.
  5. ↑ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Hard drama, hosers at Geminis". Montreal Gazette , December 14, 2004.
  6. ↑ "The Academy announces the 18th Annual Gemini Award nominees". Canada NewsWire , September 9, 2003.
  7. ↑ Marla Cranston, "Made in Canada dominates Canadian Comedy Awards". Halifax Daily News , March 19, 2002.
  8. ↑ "Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Performance categories". Playback , January 13, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Live! Nude! Animal! at Waterfront festival". Halifax Daily News , April 23, 1999.
  10. ↑ Skana Gee, "Jackie's first: Poet, actor, Jackie Torrens writes a full-length mainstage production -- and she's not in it". Halifax Daily News , February 5, 2002.
  11. ↑ Marilyn Smulders, "How purple is my prose? Halifax playwright Jackie Torrens overcame creative block to produce a witty monologue about life as a Harlequin novelist". Halifax Daily News , March 9, 1996.
  12. ↑ Shawn Ohler, "Tales From The Glockenspiel; That Is My Heart". Edmonton Journal , August 20, 1996.
  13. ↑ Jerry West, "It's funny if it's not you: Shot down in front of a live audience". Halifax Daily News , May 8, 2003.
  14. ↑ Stephen Cooke, "Torrens looks at life on the edge". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , June 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ Elissa Bernard, "Walk a mile in these shoes; Documentary looks at people in need and finds the system 'punitive and patronizing'". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , August 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ Courtney Small, "Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille Review: A stranger than fiction mystery". Point of View , April 30, 2022.
  17. ↑ Stephen Cooke, "Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Bernie Langille among Atlantic International Film Festival award winners". SaltWire Network , September 22, 2022.
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