Acting

Tracy Wright

Born December 7, 1959 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died June 22, 2010 · aged 50

Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gil…

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Blindness

Blindness · 2008

MovieDramaMystery

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

Joe's So Mean to Josephine · 1997

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

MovieCrimeRomance

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Me and You and Everyone We Know · 2005

Me and You and Everyone We Know

MovieComedyDrama

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.

When Night Is Falling

When Night Is Falling · 1995

When Night Is Falling

MovieDramaRomance

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

Superstar

Superstar · 1999

MovieComedyRomance

Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.

Apartment Hunting

Apartment Hunting · 2000

Apartment Hunting

MovieComedyRomance

A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.

Picture Claire

Picture Claire · 2001

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.

Trigger

Trigger · 2010

MovieDramaMusic

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

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Blindness

Blindness · 2008

MovieDramaMystery

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Thief's Wife

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

Joe's So Mean to Josephine · 1997

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

MovieCrimeRomance

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?

Dispatcher

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Me and You and Everyone We Know · 2005

Me and You and Everyone We Know

MovieComedyDrama

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.

Nancy Herrington

When Night Is Falling

When Night Is Falling · 1995

When Night Is Falling

MovieDramaRomance

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

Tory

Superstar

Superstar · 1999

MovieComedyRomance

Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.

Sister Anne

Apartment Hunting

Apartment Hunting · 2000

Apartment Hunting

MovieComedyRomance

A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.

Steve

Picture Claire

Picture Claire · 2001

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.

Detective Sweeney

Trigger

Trigger · 2010

MovieDramaMusic

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Vic

Last Night

Last Night · 1998

MovieComedyRomance

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Donna

Leslie, My Name Is Evil

Leslie, My Name Is Evil · 2009

Leslie, My Name Is Evil

MovieComedyCrime

A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.

Leslie's Mom

The Five Senses

The Five Senses · 1999

The Five Senses

MovieComedyDrama

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.

Alex

Dog Park

Dog Park · 1998

MovieRomanceComedy

A young man, whose girlfriend has just left him and taken their dog, falls for another woman who is also on the rebound, but who prefers the company of her dog to the company of men.

Dog Psychologist's Wife

All Hat

All Hat · 2007

MovieComedyDrama

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. Determined to stay out of trouble, Ray heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains losing racehorses and whose debts are growing faster than his corn.

Elizabeth Dokes

Highway 61

Highway 61 · 1991

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Margo

You Are Here

You Are Here · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.

The Archivist

Bubbles Galore

Bubbles Galore · 1996

A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.

Vivian Klitorsky

This Movie Is Broken

This Movie Is Broken · 2010

This Movie Is Broken

MovieDramaMusic

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.

Box Office Woman

Childstar

Childstar · 2004

MovieComedyDrama

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Tabitha

Wasaga

MovieDramaRomance

Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the town's much more car-oriented lifestyle, only to find Judy becoming a love interest.

Judy

Monkey Warfare

Monkey Warfare · 2006

MovieComedyDrama

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.

Linda

Sarabande

Sarabande · 1997

MovieDramaMusic

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.

Emily

My Summer Vacation

My Summer Vacation · 1996

My Summer Vacation

MovieComedyDrama

Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.

Marvette

Elimination Dance

Elimination Dance · 1998

Elimination Dance

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Female Dance Partner

Green Door

Green Door · 2008

Rhonda

The Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall · 1989

The Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

Sandra

Twitch City

Twitch City · 1998

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.

Dizelle