Tommie-Amber Pirie is a Canadian actress.Denis Armstrong, "Actress doubles chances". ''
Ottawa Sun
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'', September 11, 2007. She is most noted for her role as Claire in '' Michael: Every Day'', for which she was a
Canadian Screen Award
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Ottawa
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, Pirie was a competitive
figure skater
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at the junior level before turning to acting.
Career
Pirie had her first acting role as Sally in the television miniseries '' H2O'', and her first major role as Sarah, the younger sister of Jay Baruchel's character Leon, in the film ''
The Trotsky
''The Trotsky'' is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed and written by Jacob Tierney and starring Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Colm Feore, Saul Rubinek, and Michael Murphy.
Plot
High School student Leon Bronstein believes that he is the re ...
The Retreat
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'', and the television series ''Long Story, Short'' and '' Bitten''.
In addition to her Canadian Screen Award nomination, she was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress by the Toronto chapter of the
ACTRA Awards
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