Balinder Johal
Balinder Johal is an Indo-Canadian actress.[1] She is best known for her roles in the films of Deepa Mehta, including Heaven on Earth, for which she was a Leo Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 2009,[2] and Beeba Boys, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[3]
Originally from Punjab,[1] Johal was educated in India before moving to Canada to pursue a master's degree in education at the University of British Columbia.[1]
As a stage actress, her most noted performances included Here and Now, a forum theatre play about urban gang violence in Vancouver,[4] and Anosh Irani's play My Granny the Goldfish.[5] She has also performed in guest appearances in the television series The Chris Isaak Show, Da Vinci's Inquest, 49th & Main, Aliens in America, Psych, Smallville and Sanctuary, and minor roles in the films Freddy Got Fingered, Josie and the Pussycats and No Men Beyond This Point.
References
- 1 2 3 "Monster-in-law, India style; Vancouver's Balinder Johal finds a well of astonishing villainy as a controlling matriarch in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth". Vancouver Sun, October 31, 2008.
- ↑ "Stargate, Stone of Destiny lead B.C.'s Leo Award nominations". The Georgia Straight, April 6, 2009.
- ↑ "Performers proud of diversity in Canadian Screen Award noms". Telegraph-Journal, January 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Real-life local crisis transforms to genuinely gripping theatre". Vancouver Sun, November 19, 2005.
- ↑ "Gaggle of giggles keeps new comedy afloat". Vancouver Sun, April 23, 2010.