Tanya Memme (born June 15, 1971) is a Canadian

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

and television presenter best known as the host for

Sell This House ''Sell This House'' is an American reality television series that premiered July 6, 2003 on A&E and May 18, 2020 on FYI. Host Tanya Memme and home stagers/interior designers Roger Hazard and Daniel Kucan help homeowners who are having trouble s ...

. Born in

Wainfleet, Ontario Wainfleet is a rural township in southern Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. There is a small and growing tourist industry, near and on Lake Erie at the southern area of Wainfleet called Long Beach. Wainfleet is also the home of the Marshville Heri ...

, Tanya went to

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in St. Catharines. In 1993, she was crowned

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(part of the

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system). For three seasons/years, since 2012, Tanya has been a regular contributor as a DIY crafter, and 'family member', on the Hallmark Channel's daily show, Home & Family. She has been host of A&E's ''

'' since its debut in 2003. She also hosted ''

Move This House ''Move This House'' is a reality television series which started airing on the A&E in 2005. Host Tanya Memme and designer Roger Hazard help homeowner Owner-occupancy or home-ownership is a form of housing tenure in which a person, called the ow ...

'' and has been a

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for

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's ''

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''. She has made appearances on the

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s '' JAG'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In

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, she was a co-host of Channel 9's ''9 On The Town'' series in 2004. She appeared in commercials for TVG, the horse racing network, and represented

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in a number of customer education segments. Tanya will co-host the spin-off show ''Sell This House: Extreme'' premiering October 29, 2011. In 2008, Memme was awarded the Best Leading Actress in a Feature Film Under $1 Million Crystal Reel Award by the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association for her starring role in ''

Terror Inside ''Terror Inside'' is a 2008 American Thriller (genre), thriller film written and directed by Jozef G. Lenders and starring Corey Feldman and Tanya Memme. It premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival on November 3, 2008 but never ...

.'' Memme has appeared on many talk shows including '' The View'' and was interviewed in the documentary ''

Being Canadian ''Being Canadian'' is a 2015 Canadian-US documentary comedy film that was written and directed by Robert Cohen and produced by The Sibs (Colin Keith Gray and Megan Raney Aarons), in association with Movie Central and The Movie Network. The fil ...

''. She has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles in the

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and

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. In 2011, she revealed on

that she was pregnant with her first child. Tanya gave birth to a baby girl, Ava, in 2011.

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1971 births Female models from Ontario Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian television actresses Canadian television hosts Living people Miss World 1993 delegates People from the Regional Municipality of Niagara Canadian women television hosts {{Canada-actor-stub