Aviva Armour-Ostroff is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker. She is most noted as the star, co-writer and co-director of the 2021 film ''
Lune
Lune may refer to:
Rivers
*River Lune, in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
*River Lune, Durham, in County Durham, England
*Lune (Weser), a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany
*Lune River (Tasmania), in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia
Pl ...
'', for which she received a
Canadian Screen Award
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nomination for
Best Actress
Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress awar ...
at the
10th Canadian Screen Awards
The 10th Canadian Screen Awards were held on April 10, 2022, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2021.Etan Vlessing"Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Receive Canadian Screen Awards Special Honor" ''The Hollyw ...
in 2022.
She was formerly the producer of Toronto's Lab Cab theatre festival.
[Amy Grief]
"Toronto actor and playwright explores themes of identity"
''Canadian Jewish News
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, October 30, 2015. She is a two-time
Dora Mavor Moore Award
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nominee for her stage performances, receiving a solo nomination for ARC Stage's production of
Deirdre Kinahan
Deirdre Kinahan is an Irish playwright and theatre producer.
Life
Deirdre Kinahan was born in Dublin in 1968.
She lives in County Meath with her husband and two daughters since 1998.
She founded and ran Tall Tales Theatre Company for fiftee ...
's play ''Moment'' in 2015,
[ and an ensemble nomination alongside Deborah Drakeford, Carlos González-Vío, Ryan Hollyman, Andre Sills and , for ARC's production of Stef Smith's play ''Human Animals'' in 2019.
She is married to ]Arturo Pérez Torres
Arturo Pérez Torres is a Mexican-born Canadian film director and screenwriter.[The Drawer Boy
''The Drawer Boy'' is a play by Michael Healey. It is a two-act play set in 1972 on a farm near Clinton, Ontario. There are only three characters: the farm's two owners, Morgan and Angus, and Miles Potter, a young actor from Toronto doing researc ...]
'' and ''Lune''.[Aviva Armour-Ostroff]
"'A Day in the Life' with writer and director Arturo Pérez Torres"
''Toronto Guardian'', April 20, 2019.
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21st-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian women film directors
Canadian women screenwriters
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian theatre directors
Canadian women theatre directors
Actresses from Toronto
Film directors from Toronto
Writers from Toronto
Jewish Canadian actresses
Jewish Canadian filmmakers
Jewish Canadian writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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