Liisa Repo-Martell
| Liisa Repo-Martell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 1971 (age 44) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | actor |
| Known for | Gemini award winner |
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Gemini award winning Canadian actor and artist.[1] Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as "This".[2]
Her Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street.[1] She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.[3]
She played Mrs. Genest, estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin) in the 2006 Jesse Stone: Night Passage made-for-TV-movie.[4]
In February 2012 the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband, actor and theater-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple".[5]
References
- 1 2 "Actress comfortable in Chekhov's shorts". Toronto Star. 1999-11-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
A Gemini Award winner last year for her starring role in CBC-TV's Nights Below Station Street, her stage credits include an achingly fragile turn in The Glass Menagerie at London's Grand Theatre and a feisty role in Go Chicken Go's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.
- ↑ Glenn Sumi (2001-08-30). "Liisa Repo-Martell: She's poured her soul into Soulpepper's classics, but is the city's most serious actor having a good time?". Now. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
Perhaps her commitment comes from her parents, political activists and academics who co-founded This Magazine (then called This Magazine is About Schools). "It was almost a religious upbringing," says Repo-Martell. "They had this sense of justice, of utopia. They were passionate. It was inspiring".
- ↑ "Company Theatre: Liisa Repo-Martell". Company Theatre.
- ↑ credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie
- ↑ "The One: Chris Abraham & Liisa Repo-Martell". National Post. 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
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