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Leah Pinsent
Leah Pinsent (born September 20, 1968) is a Canadian television and film actress. Career Pinsent made her film debut in 1984's ''The Bay Boy'', best known as Kiefer Sutherland's first film. The role garnered her a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her next role was in the 1986 horror film ''April Fool's Day'' alongside Thomas F. Wilson and Griffin O'Neal. She is perhaps best known for her television roles as production accountant Veronica Miller in the comedy-drama series ''Made in Canada'', and news anchor Diane Gordon in ''More Tears'' and ''Escape from the Newsroom''. Personal life Pinsent was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Canadian actors Gordon Pinsent and Charmion King. She was married to Michael Capellupo from 1991 to 2002. Pinsent is married to actor Peter Keleghan Peter Keleghan is a Canadian actor and writer, perhaps best known for portraying Ben Bellow in the comedy series ''18 to Life'', Clark Claxton Sr. in the comedy series ''Billable Hours'' and Ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Keleghan
Peter Keleghan is a Canadian actor and writer, perhaps best known for portraying Ben Bellow in the comedy series ''18 to Life'', Clark Claxton Sr. in the comedy series ''Billable Hours'' and Ranger Gord in ''The Red Green Show''. Currently has a recurring role on '' Murdoch Mysteries'' as government agent/spy, Terrence Meyers. Early life Keleghan was born in Montreal, Quebec. He earned his BA in English Drama from York University in Toronto, Ontario. Career Keleghan has had a long career in film and television, mostly in comedic roles starting in the '' Smith & Smith'' spin off comedy sketch show, ''Comedy Mill''. His best-known roles have been film industry CEO Alan Roy on '' Made in Canada'', news anchor Jim Walcott on '' The Newsroom'', Ranger Gord on ''The Red Green Show'', Ben Bellow on ''18 to Life'' and special agent Terrence Myers on '' Murdoch Mysteries''. His other television performances include '' Seinfeld'', and '' Queer as Folk''. Some of his film work includes ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wet Bum
''Wet Bum'' (retitled ''Surfacing'' in some international markets) is a 2014 Canadian drama film, directed by Lindsay MacKay. The film stars Julia Sarah Stone as Sam, a shy and self-conscious teenage girl struggling to assert herself with those around her, including her older swimming teammates who make fun of her because she has not yet fully developed into womanhood and the residents of a nursing home where she has a part-time job as a cleaner. The film's cast also includes Leah Pinsent as Sam's mother Mary Ellen, Jamie Johnston as her older brother Nate, Craig Arnold as her swimming coach Lukas, and Kenneth Welsh as Ed, a crotchety resident of the nursing home. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received two Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015, for Best Actress in a Canadian Film (Stone) and Best First Film by a Canadian Director.Jordan Pinto"Vancouver Film Critics Circle announces no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puppets Who Kill
''Puppets Who Kill'' is a Canadian television comedy programme produced by PWK Productions and originally broadcast on The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. It has also been broadcast in India, South Korea and Germany. The series was on the digital network Hulu and is currently on CON TV and Tubi in the United States. ''PWK'' began as a one-man live theatre show written and performed by comedian/puppeteer John Pattison at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1995. It later morphed into the series, using the same dark topics and featuring some of the same puppet characters. In 1999, a pilot for Puppets Who Kill was produced for the Comedy Network and broadcast in January, 2000. The network ordered the first season of 13 episodes which was produced in the fall of 2001, and held back by the network for one year - finally being broadcast in the fall of 2002. For the next 3 years a new season of the series was produced every fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Fathers (film)
''Our Fathers'' is a 2005 American drama television film directed by Dan Curtis and starring Ted Danson, Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy and Ellen Burstyn. The screenplay was written by Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on the 2004 non-fiction book ''Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal'' by David France. It was the last film directed by Curtis, who died soon after it was finished. Cast * Ted Danson as Mitchell Garabedian * Christopher Plummer as Cardinal Bernard Law * Brian Dennehy as Father Dominic Spagnolia * Daniel Baldwin as Angelo DeFranco * Ellen Burstyn as Mary Ryan * Kenneth Welsh as Bishop William Murphy * Will Lyman as Wilson Rogers, Jr. * Jan Rubeš as Pope John Paul II * Aidan Devine as Bernie McDaid *Steven Shaw as John J. Geoghan *James Oliver as Patrick McSorley *James Kall as Geoghan's Lawyer Awards and nominations Primetime Emmy Awards * Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Dennehy – lost to Paul N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Souls (TV Series)
''All Souls'' is an American paranormal hospital drama television series created by Stuart Gillard and Stephen Tolkin and inspired by Lars von Trier's miniseries ''The Kingdom''. It originally aired for one season on UPN from April 17, 2001, to August 31, 2001. The series follows the medical staff of the haunted teaching hospital All Souls. While working as a medical intern, protagonist Dr. Mitchell Grace (Grayson McCouch) encounters various spirits, and discovers that the doctors are running unethical experiments on their patients. The executive producers included Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, and Mark Frost. Gillard developed the premise for ''All Souls'' from his belief that a medical facility would be an ideal setting for a horror series and his research on statistics of deaths that had taken place in a hospital. Frost also felt that there was a close connection between modern medicine and the supernatural. Though the series was set in Boston, filming took plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Win, Again!
''Win, Again!'' is a Canadian television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1999.David Barber, "Father and child reunion: On screen and off, Win, Again! benefits from family ties". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 16, 1999. Directed by Eric Till, the film stars Gordon Pinsent as Win Morrissey, a man from Nova Scotia who abandoned his family 16 years earlier to go on the run after being accused of a crime he did not commit, and is now returning home to reconcile with them after finally being exonerated. The film also stars Gabrielle Rose as Win's wife Lois, who has moved on with a career in real estate and a new boyfriend; Michael Riley as their son John, a successful urban planner living in Toronto who resents his father's absence from his childhood; Leah Pinsent as John's girlfriend Julie; and Eric Peterson as Win's brother Cliff. Martha Gibson and Lawrence Dane also appear in supporting roles.Bonnie Malleck, "Pinsent has best role in years: Bittersweet drama Win, Agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicles Of The Paranormal
Chronicles may refer to: * ''Books of Chronicles'', in the Bible * Chronicle, chronological histories * ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', a novel series by C. S. Lewis * ''Holinshed's Chronicles'', the collected works of Raphael Holinshed * ''The Idhun Chronicles'', a Netflix anime-style series based on the ''Idhún's Memories'' book trilogy by Laura Gallego * ''Book of Chronicles'', an alternate name for the ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' of 1493 * '' Chronicles: Volume One'', Bob Dylan's autobiography * ''Chronicles'' (magazine), a conservative magazine from the Rockford Institute * ''Chronicles'' (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set of the ''Magic: The Gathering'' trading card game * Froissart's ''Chronicles'', a prose history of the Hundred Years' War written in the 14th century by Jean Froissart * '' Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles'', an upcoming Netflix CGI-animated series loosely based on the ''Usagi Yojimbo'' comics by Stan Sakai Albums * ''Chronicles'' (Audiomachine alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Effects (TV Series)
''Side Effects'' is a Canadian television series, which aired from 1994 to 1996 on CBC Television."Prognosis good for drama; All-Canadian treatment for Side Effects". ''Ottawa Citizen'', October 11, 1994. A medical drama created by Brenda Greenberg and Guy Mullally, the series was set in an inner city clinic in the Parkdale district of Toronto. The show's cast included Nadia Capone, Elizabeth Shepherd, Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, Jovanni Sy, Janne Mortil, Anna Pappas, Barbara Eve Harris, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane and Arsinée Khanjian. The series premiered on October 14, 1994. The show's executive producer was Brenda Greenberg, who had also been executive producer of '' Street Legal''. Schultz garnered a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 10th Gemini Awards for the show's first season, and Harris garnered a nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 11th Gemini Awards for the second season. All "clinic" and "hospital" scenes we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series focuses on the life of Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and amateur detective, who finds herself becoming involved in solving a series of murders that take place in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, as well as across the United States and abroad. The program ran for 12 seasons from September 30, 1984, to May 19, 1996, for a total of 264 episodes, and included amongst its recurring cast Tom Bosley, William Windom and Ron Masak, as well as a vast array of guest cast members including Michael Horton, Keith Michell and Julie Adams. The series proved a ratings hit during its broadcast, becoming a staple of CBS Sunday night TV schedule for around a decade, while achieving distinction as one of the most successful and longest-running te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Reality (TV Series)
''Beyond Reality'' is a science fiction television series which originally aired between October 4, 1991 and March 20, 1993. The series is about two university parapsychologists (Shari Belafonte and Carl Marotte) who investigate reports of paranormal phenomena A phenomenon ( : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by Gottfried W ... that occur in ordinary people's lives. Episodes Home media Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 on January 23, 2007. References External links * 1990s Canadian science fiction television series 1991 Canadian television series debuts 1993 Canadian television series endings USA Network original programming Television shows filmed in Toronto {{Canada-nonfiction-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
