Jackie Torrens
Jackie Torrens is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] She was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Acting[edit]
She began her career as an actress, most notably being cast as the frumpy but shrewd office manager Wanda Mattice in the television series Made in Canada in 1998.[2] Along with the rest of the show's core ensemble, she is a three-time Gemini Award winner for Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series, winning at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001,[3] the 17th Gemini Awards in 2002,[4] and the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004.[5] They were also nominated, but did not win, at the 18th Gemini Awards in 2003,[6] and Torrens was individually a Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Performance by a Female, Television at the 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards in 2002.[7]
In 2013 she was cast as social worker Drucie Mackay in the television series Sex & Violence, for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.[8]
She has also won an award from the Nova Scotia chapter of the ACTRA Awards for her performance in the film Across the Line, and was nominated for both Sex & Violence and the film Heartbeat.
Writing[edit]
Her stage plays have included Live! Nude! Animal!,[9] Five Fables,[10] Strange Antiques,[11] That Is My Heart[12] and Georama.[13]
She has received several Robert Merritt Award nominations both as a playwright and as a stage actress.
Filmmaking[edit]
In 2014 she released the documentary film Edge of East.[14] With Jessica Brown, she is a partner in Peep Media, and has also released the documentary films My Week on Welfare,[15] Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown, Radical Age and Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille.[16]
Bernie Langille won the award for Best Atlantic Documentary at the 2022 FIN Atlantic Film Festival.[17]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
- Marion Bridge (2002)
- The Wild Dogs (2002)
- Heartbeat (2014)
- Across the Line (2015)
Television[edit]
- Made in Canada (1998-2003)
- Sex & Violence (2013-2017)
References[edit]
- ^ "Jackie Torrens". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, December 26, 2015.
- ^ Alex Strachan, "Mercer's Made in Canada is satire for a slow night". Vancouver Sun, October 16, 2000.
- ^ John McKay, "Da Vinci's Inquest and Nuremberg big winners after three-night Gemini fest". Canadian Press, October 29, 2001.
- ^ Marla Cranston, "Gemini dream: Local TV productions win bushel of awards". Halifax Daily News, November 5, 2002.
- ^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Hard drama, hosers at Geminis". Montreal Gazette, December 14, 2004.
- ^ "The Academy announces the 18th Annual Gemini Award nominees". Canada NewsWire, September 9, 2003.
- ^ Marla Cranston, "Made in Canada dominates Canadian Comedy Awards". Halifax Daily News, March 19, 2002.
- ^ "Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Performance categories". Playback, January 13, 2015.
- ^ "Live! Nude! Animal! at Waterfront festival". Halifax Daily News, April 23, 1999.
- ^ Skana Gee, "Jackie's first: Poet, actor, Jackie Torrens writes a full-length mainstage production -- and she's not in it". Halifax Daily News, February 5, 2002.
- ^ Marilyn Smulders, "How purple is my prose? Halifax playwright Jackie Torrens overcame creative block to produce a witty monologue about life as a Harlequin novelist". Halifax Daily News, March 9, 1996.
- ^ Shawn Ohler, "Tales From The Glockenspiel; That Is My Heart". Edmonton Journal, August 20, 1996.
- ^ Jerry West, "It's funny if it's not you: Shot down in front of a live audience". Halifax Daily News, May 8, 2003.
- ^ Stephen Cooke, "Torrens looks at life on the edge". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, June 21, 2014.
- ^ Elissa Bernard, "Walk a mile in these shoes; Documentary looks at people in need and finds the system 'punitive and patronizing'". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, August 28, 2015.
- ^ Courtney Small, "Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille Review: A stranger than fiction mystery". Point of View, April 30, 2022.
- ^ Stephen Cooke, "Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Bernie Langille among Atlantic International Film Festival award winners". SaltWire Network, September 22, 2022.
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