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Meg Tilly

Born February 14, 1960 · Long Beach, California, USA (age 66)

Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan; February 14, 1960) is a Canadian-American actress and novelist. For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her role in the television series Bomb Girls (2012–13), she won the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Tilly has a…

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Valmont

Valmont · 1989

MovieDramaRomance

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.

War Machine

War Machine · 2017

MovieComedyDrama

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.

Ordinary Angels

Ordinary Angels · 2024

Ordinary Angels

Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

Psycho II

Psycho II · 1983

MovieHorrorMystery

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

Body Snatchers

Body Snatchers · 1993

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Fame

MovieDramaMusic

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

The Big Chill

The Big Chill · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes · 1990

MovieCrimeMystery

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

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Valmont

Valmont · 1989

MovieDramaRomance

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.

Madame de Tourvel

War Machine

War Machine · 2017

MovieComedyDrama

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.

Jeannie McMahon

Ordinary Angels

Ordinary Angels · 2024

Ordinary Angels

Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

Screenplay

Psycho II

Psycho II · 1983

MovieHorrorMystery

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

Mary

Body Snatchers

Body Snatchers · 1993

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Carol Malone

Fame

MovieDramaMusic

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Principal Dancer

The Big Chill

The Big Chill · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

Chloe

The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes · 1990

MovieCrimeMystery

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.

Kitty Berman

One Dark Night

One Dark Night · 1982

A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.

Julie Wells

Agnes of God

Agnes of God · 1985

MovieDramaMystery

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.

Sister Agnes

Masquerade

Masquerade · 1988

MovieDramaRomance

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.

Olivia Lawrence

Impulse

Impulse · 1984

MovieHorrorMystery

After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.

Jennifer

Sleep with Me

Sleep with Me · 1994

MovieComedyDrama

Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend.

Sarah

Off Beat

Off Beat · 1986

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Rachel Wareham

Leaving Normal

Leaving Normal · 1992

MovieDramaComedy

Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.

Marianne

The Girl in a Swing

The Girl in a Swing · 1988

The Girl in a Swing

MovieDramaThriller

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.

Karin

In the Best Interest of the Child

In the Best Interest of the Child · 1990

In the Best Interest of the Child

MovieDramaTV Movie

Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on her that the child may be being sexually abused by her father. What is she to do when the court isn't favorable in the child's hour of need?

Jennifer Colton

Antibirth

Antibirth · 2016

In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.

Lorna

Tex

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

Jamie Collins

Journey

Journey · 1995

MovieDramaTV Movie

Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

Min

Carmilla

Carmilla · 1989

MovieHorrorTV Movie

Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...

Carmilla

Trick of the Eye

Trick of the Eye · 1994

Trick of the Eye

MovieDramaTV Movie

A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the woman wants her to do more than paint the mural as hidden family secrets are revealed.

Faith Crowell

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy · 2014

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy

MovieDramaTV Movie

It is the Spring of 1943 and the Battle for the Atlantic rages as an Axis victory seems inevitable. The women of Vic Mu – Gladys, Lorna, Kate, Betty and Vera – band together in a tight bond of support and friendship.

Lorna Corbett

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues · 1981

Hill Street Blues

SeriesDramaCrime

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Chucky

SeriesCrimeComedy

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

Meg Tilly

Caprica

Caprica · 2010

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.

Mother

Road to Avonlea

Road to Avonlea · 1990

Road to Avonlea

SeriesDramaFamily

In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King, to be near her late mother's side of the family.

Evelyn Grier

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels · 1993

SeriesCrimeDrama

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.

Lois Weldon

Bomb Girls

Bomb Girls · 2012

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.

Lorna Corbett

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame · 1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

Min

Winnetka Road

Winnetka Road · 1994

SeriesSoapDrama

Winnetka Road is an American television drama which premiered on NBC on March 12, 1994, and concluded on April 16, 1994. The series was created by John Byrum, and follows the lives and loves of an oddly interconnected group of people in a suburban Chicago town.

George Grace

Nightmare Classics

Nightmare Classics · 1989

Nightmare Classics

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

An anthology series featuring adaptations of well-known horror stories, produced by Shelley Duvall. Following the success of her two previous anthology series – Faerie Tale Theatre and Tall Tales & Legends – both of which were aimed at the elementary-school audience, Duvall attempted to branch out to the teenage and adult audience with Nightmare Classics.

Carmilla