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Remembrance (2001)
Character: Aurora Isaacs
Remembrance is an unusual wartime romance, inspired by two true but little-known stories: a man with an extremely rare memory condition, synesthesia, which literally prevented him from forgetting; and Camp X – a top secret training facility near Whitby, Ontario, that was used to train Canadian and Allied spies during World War Two. Against this backdrop, two strangers meet and, each for their own reasons, must struggle against an unexpected and dangerous attraction.
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Butterbox Babies (1995)
Character: Dorothy / Daisy
A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
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Taking Liberty (1993)
Character: Sarah
Benjamin Franklin helps a rebel leader in her fight for America's independence in 1778.
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Toby McTeague (1986)
Character: Sara
Toby is a teenager who doesn't care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race. He will have to undergo extensive training in order to win it.
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Moody Beach (1990)
Character: Waitress
A man and a woman, who are both trying to run away from the banalities of life, fall in love.
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Dash and Lilly (1999)
Character: Studio Secretary
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled alcoholism.
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Café Olé (2000)
Character: Sharon
Malcolm's (28) new love, Alicia (25), an illegal Chilean refugee, will be short-lived if he does not make the right choice.
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Partners 'n Love (1993)
Character: Angela
David Grodin has an obsessive-compulsive personality. But he is also just plain obsessed with Maxine Smith, his ex-wife of five years and his business partner. Their small business is Mr & Mrs, a small swimwear company he founded but that only became successful when she became its creative director. They work well together and are best friends, but Max feels that they just could not live together and be married to each other. They learn that because of a legal technicality, their divorce was never executed and thus they are still legally married.
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Blizzard (2003)
Character: Emma Ward
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Character: Allison
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Character: Local
A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone.
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The Nutcracker Prince (1990)
Character: Louise (voice)
After young Clara receives a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas gift, she dreams about a fantastical battle between her Nutcracker Prince and the evil Mouse King. At stake is the Nutcracker's freedom - and Clara's future happiness.
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Ding et Dong : Le film (1990)
Character: Cheftaine
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
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P.T. Barnum (1999)
Character: Nancy (Fish)
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses, his family life is troubled and marred by tragedy. All the while, events lead to his greatest creation, the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Mind Games (1998)
Character: Anna
A couple that seems perfect is hiding big secrets from each other. They are all revealed after they meet a psychotic psychologist.
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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
Character: Laura
Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love".
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Revoir Julie (1998)
Character: Juliet
Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes impossible to deny in spite of intentions to the contrary.
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Maelström (2000)
Character: Claire Gunderson
A young woman's life spirals into chaos after she is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then she encounters a mysterious man named Evian who offers her an opportunity for redemption. Narrated by a fish.
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