Stephanie Morgenstern is a Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English and French. Her most widely seen feature film credits have been ''
The Sweet Hereafter,
Maelström,
Julie and Me
''Julie and Me'' (french: Revoir Julie) is a Canadian lesbian romantic comedy film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 1998."Oh! Revoir Julie: Montrealer's fine first feature is a tiny revelation". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 24, 1998 ...
(Revoir Julie)'' and ''Forbidden Love''. Morgenstern is also widely recognized by anime fans as the voice of
Sailor Venus
, better known as , is a fictional character in the ''Sailor Moon'' and '' Codename: Sailor V'' manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi. Minako is her sailor form's alternative human identity as part of the Sailor Soldiers, female supernatural fig ...
in the
DIC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment Corporation (; also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions), branded as The Incredible World of DIC, was an international film and television production com ...
English dub of ''
Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The seri ...
'' in the first few seasons as well as the movies. Additionally, she provided the voice of Regina in the ''
Dino Crisis
is a survival horror and action-adventure video game series created by Shinji Mikami and developed and published by Capcom. The plot focuses on recurring outbreaks of deadly dinosaurs in closed environments, such as a laboratory on an islan ...
'' series.
Life and career
Along with her writing partner and husband
Mark Ellis, Morgenstern created ''
Flashpoint'', a Canadian TV police drama which premiered July 2008 on CTV and CBS, and ran for five years before the show ended by creative choice in 2012. The show was awarded the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Contribution to Canadian Television, in addition to both a Gemini and Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series.
Flashpoint has been sold to over 50 countries outside of Canada and the U.S.
She and Mark Ellis were also co-creators and showrunners on
X Company
''X Company'' is a Canadian/Hungarian spy thriller television series created by '' Flashpoint's'' Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern which premiered on February 18, 2015, on CBC Television. The series takes place during World War II, and foll ...
, a
WWII
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
espionage thriller set in France, Germany and Canada. Shot over three years in Budapest, it was also sold to many territories internationally, including France (TF1), U.K. (History), the United States (Ovation), Latin America (History), and Japan (Mystery). It was also a Canadian Screen Awards nominee for Best Dramatic Series.
Morgenstern has been twice nominated for
Genie
Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources)
– are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic myt ...
(Canadian Academy) Awards for directing the short film ''
Remembrance'', which she also co-wrote and co-starred in with her husband
Mark Ellis, and co-directing (with her brother
Mark Morgenstern
Mark Morgenstern is a Canadians, Canadian film director, director, cinematographer and film editor, editor from Montreal, Quebec.
Filmography (partial)
* ''Refuge (documentary film), Refuge'' (2008), a documentary on rebels in Darfur by Alexandre ...
) the short film''
Curtains
A curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain), water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theatre that separates the stage from the auditoriu ...
'', which she also wrote, an in which she played the lead role.
Morgenstern stated in a 2003 interview that she has
synesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who re ...
. She is also a practitioner of Krav Maga martial arts training.
Filmography
Director and screenwriter credits
Acting
Television
References
External links
*
Official Website
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Living people
Actresses from Montreal
Canadian film actresses
Canadian Screen Award winners
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian television directors
Canadian television writers
Canadian video game actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Canadian women film directors
Canadian women screenwriters
Canadian women television directors
Canadian women television writers
Film directors from Montreal
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Montreal
Year of birth missing (living people)
York University alumni
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women writers