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Alliance Of Canadian Cinema, Television And Radio
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is a Canadian trade union representing performers in English-language media. It has 25,000 members working in film, television, radio, and all other recorded media. The organization negotiates, safeguards, and promotes the professional rights of its members. It also works to increase work opportunities for its members and lobbies for policy changes at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels. ACTRA's regional chapters present ACTRA Awards to honour the best in Canadian radio and television performances in their local productions. Affiliations ACTRA is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress and the International Federation of Actors. In July 2005, ACTRA and the United Steelworkers announced that the two unions have entered into a strategic alliance to take on the globalization of the culture industry and to address a range of common issues. Acronym Meaning The earliest form of the organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Charette-Poulin
Marie-Paule Charette-Poulin (born June 21, 1945) was a Canadian senator until resigning in April 2015 and was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2006 to 2008. She is married to international portrait artist Bernard Poulin. Education Born Marie-Paule Charette in Sudbury, Ontario, on June 21, 1945, she was raised in Sudbury and Haileybury. She was a classmate and friend of MP Diane Marleau in high school; Charette-Poulin and Marleau remained friends throughout their careers. She was educated at Laurentian University, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966, and the Université de Montréal, obtaining her Master's of Social Science in 1969. In 1995, Laurentian awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws. Charette-Poulin received an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 2007. Professional life In the earlier part of her career, Charette-Poulin worked as a program producer, researcher and university lecturer. She was then a deputy minister in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Phung
Andrew Phung is a Canadian actor, improviser, and comedian. He played the character Kimchee Han on the CBC Television sitcom ''Kim's Convenience''."A Convenience truth; Andrew Phung stars in new TV series about an Asian corner store". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 11, 2016. For this role, he has been a five-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Background Andrew Phung was born and raised in Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ..., Alberta, and attended Bishop McNally High School. Phung's father is of Vietnamese Canadians, Vietnamese descent and his mother is Chinese Canadians, Chinese. He joined the Loose Moose Theatre, Loose Moose Theatre Company when he was 16 years old. As of 2020, he is a senior ensemble performer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Power
Nicole Penney Power (born ) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Shannon Ross in ''Kim's Convenience'' and its Spin-off (media), spin-off series ''Strays (TV series), Strays''. Early life and education Power was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and grew up in Middle Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Middle Cove. She attended Memorial University of Newfoundland for one year of general studies before moving to Ontario, where she graduated from Sheridan College's Musical Theatre program and The Second City, Second City's conservatory. Power also became a member of Soulpepper Theatre Academy. Career Power has appeared in Canadian stage productions of ''West Side Story'', ''Bonnie & Clyde (musical), Bonnie and Clyde'', ''Legally Blonde (musical), Legally Blonde'', ''La Cage aux Folles (musical), La Cage aux Folles'', ''Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead'', ''Evangeline (1999 musical), Evangeline'', and The Charlottetown Festival's production of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Yoon
Jean Yoon (born May 4, 1962) is an American-born Canadian actress and writer of Korean descent. Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play ''Kim's Convenience'' and in the award-winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations. Early life Yoon was born in Champaign, Illinois to parents of Korean descent in 1962 and subsequently raised in Toronto, where she currently resides and works. Career 1980s–1990s: Early career in theatre Yoon started her career in theatre as an actress in the early 1980s, but soon quit in frustration after she struggled to find work and went on to complete her degree at the University of Toronto (BA Innis 1989). A decade later, in 1995, she returned to acting and started her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes, through which she has written and produced plays that focus on the Korean diaspora, mostly in Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Bang
Andrea Bang is a Canadian actress and screenwriter from Burnaby, British Columbia. She is best known for playing Janet Kim in the CBC comedy ''Kim's Convenience'', for which she was nominated many times at the Canadian Screen Awards. She has appeared in ''A Million Little Things'', ''Fresh'' and '' Running with Violet''. Background Bang was born in Burnaby, British Columbia to Korean immigrant parents. Her sister, Diana Bang, is also an actress and writer. Bang attended Burnaby North Secondary School, was in the chorus in a school production of ''Bye Bye Birdie''. Bang graduated in 2012 with a degree in Psychology from University of British Columbia, while also taking acting lessons. In 2017, she told the ''Vancouver Sun'': Bang's parents, who had immigrated from Korea, initially found it "distressing" that Andrea and her sister Diana had chosen to pursue acting as a career, but have since become fully supportive. Career In 2015, Bang won a best actress (Summer Award) at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Levy (Canadian Actor)
Daniel Joseph Levy (born 9 August 1983) is a Canadian actor, writer and producer. Born in Toronto to parents Eugene Levy and Deborah Divine, he began his career as a television host on MTV Canada. He received international prominence and critical acclaim for starring as David Rose in the CBC sitcom ''Schitt's Creek'' (2015–2020), which he co-created with his father and co-starred in with him and his sister, Sarah Levy. For producing, writing, directing, and acting in the final season of ''Schitt's Creek'', Levy became the first person to win a Primetime Emmy Award in all four major disciplines in a single year. His work on the show also earned him four Canadian Screen Awards out of 18 nominations, among other accolades. Early life Levy was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended high school at North Toronto Collegiate Institute and later pursued film production at York University and Ryerson University. His father is Jewish and his mother is Protestant. Levy had a bar m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series '' SCTV''. He has also appeared in the '' American Pie'' series of films and the Canadian sitcom ''Schitt's Creek''. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with ''Waiting for Guffman'' (1996). In 2004, Levy won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "A Mighty Wind" from the film of the same name that he co-wrote. Levy received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 2008. He was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011. From 2015 to 2020, he starred as Johnny Rose in ''Schitt's Creek'', a comedy series that he co-created with his son and co-star Dan Levy. In 2019 and 2020, he was nominated for the Primetime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born August 16, 1972) is a Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera ''Train 48'' (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play ''Kim's Convenience'' (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021). Lee has won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series four times for his role as Mr. Kim in ''Kim's Convenience'', and has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for ''The Monster Under the Bed'' in 2010 and the stage version of ''Kim's Convenience'' in 2012. Early life When Lee was three months old, his parents immigrated from Daejeon, South Korea to Canada, living in London, Toronto and Calgary. In 1990, he moved back to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto, where he attended the drama program at University College. Career He had a supporting role in the film ''Ice Princess'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simu Liu
Simu Liu ( ; ; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. He also played Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom ''Kim's Convenience'' and received nominations at the ACTRA Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his work in '' Blood and Water''. In 2022, Liu authored the memoir ''We Were Dreamers'', and was named one of ''Time'' 100 most influential people in the world. Early life Liu was born in Harbin, China, on 19 April 1989, son of Zhenning and Zheng Liu. His parents had succeeded, against considerable competition, in entering Beijing University to study engineering. His father, Zhenning, went to America to study for a PhD whilst his mother worked in Beijing, and Liu was raised until age 5 by his grandparents in Harbin, China, "in a small apartment, without running water for much of the day", in circumstances he recalled as "idyllic and happy". His p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film ''Perfect Pie'' (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, the comedy film ''My Name Is Tanino'' (2002), and the comedy series ''Slings and Arrows'' (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award. In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy ''The Hot Chick''. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy ''Mean Girls'' and the romantic drama ''The Notebook''. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy ''Wedding Crashers'', the psychological thriller '' Red Eye'', and the comedy-drama ''The Family Stone''. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood's new "it girl", and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Rising Star. After a brief sabbatical, she returned to prominence in 2009 by appearing in the political thriller '' State of Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corus Entertainment
Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian mass media company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. It is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario. Corus has a large presence in Canadian broadcasting as owner of the national Global network (15 conventional stations), 39 radio stations, and a portfolio of 33 specialty television services; the company's domestic specialty brands include Showcase, SériesPlus, Slice, Teletoon, Télétoon, W Network, and YTV. It also operates services under brand licensing agreements with A&E Networks (History and Lifetime), Paramount Global ( CMT and Nickelodeon), Walt Disney Television (including its Disney Branded Television, Freeform, and National Geographic units), and Warner Bros. Discovery (Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and lifestyle brands). Corus owns the animation studio Nelvana, animation software vendor Toon Boom Animation, and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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