MacKenzie Porter

MacKenzie Porter

Born: January 29, 1990
in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
MacKenzie Porter was raised on a cattle and bison ranch near Medicine Hat, Alberta. She began studying piano, violin and voice at age four. Growing up, she toured in a family band with her brother, 2004 Canadian Idol winner Kalan Porter.

Porter has appeared in numerous films and television productions, including the TV series Dinosapien in 2007. She earned a Best Actress in Alberta award for her role in the TV movie The Other Woman. She was also named as one of the Top 11 Hottest Vancouver Actors to Watch for 2011 by BC Living magazine.

After moving to Vancouver to pursue acting, Porter teamed up with musician and actor Andrew Jenkins to form the band The Black Boots. In 2010, she launched a solo career. Porter was the winner of the 2011 Nashville North Star competition. She has opened for Kenny Chesney, Doc Walker and Trooper, among others, and has performed for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gene Simmons.

In October 2012, Porter released her debut single, "I Wish I'd Known". Her second single, "Never Gonna Let You", was co-written and produced by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Porter was chosen as one of six acts for the inaugural Canadian Country Music Association Discovery Program in 2013. She is also nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Her debut album will be released in 2014.

Movies for MacKenzie Porter...

The Movie Star and the Cowboy
Title: The Movie Star and the Cowboy
Character: Isabella
Released: July 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When city girl and actress, Isabella, lands a dream role as a rancher, the studio sends her to live on a ranch to learn the ropes but she soon discovers the rancher, Hunter, is too busy trying to save his ranch from ruin to help make her dreams come true. Can Isabella find a way to help save the ranch and her starring role?
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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Darrow & Darrow: In The Key Of Murder
Title: Darrow & Darrow: In The Key Of Murder
Character: Phoebe
Released: May 6, 2018
Type: Movie
A simple offer of legal advice turns into the biggest challenge of Claire Darrow’s legal career when her new beau, D.A. Miles Strasberg, introduces her to his younger half-sister, Phoebe, a singer fresh off her first album. Following a legal dispute between the two, Phoebe's producer ends up dead and all signs point to Phoebe. Claire is the only one Miles trusts to uncover the truth and save his sister.
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Title: Travelers
Character: Marcy Warton
Released: October 17, 2016
Type: TV
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.
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Barbie: The Pearl Princess
Title: Barbie: The Pearl Princess
Character: Cora (voice)
Released: February 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Barbie plays Lumina, a mermaid girl with the power to change the color of pearls. Cheerful and creative, Lumina finds herself working in a mermaid salon customizing fabulous hairstyles. And when Lumina has the chance to attend the royal ball, her friends adorn her with a gown fit for a princess. At the ball, villains try to seize power over the kingdom, and Lumina finds within herself an unexpected power that proves she is much more than a hair stylist.
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Guess Who's Coming to Christmas
Title: Guess Who's Coming to Christmas
Character: Kelly Harding
Released: December 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Jaded rock star Dax is found by New York paparazzi passed out in his car with a frozen holiday turkey in the passenger seat. In order to repair his tarnished image, Dax publicly agrees to grant a fan’s “Dear Santa” Christmas wish. To his dismay, his manager Jason drops Dax off in Cedar Grove, a Midwest small town, where he’s committed to spend a week and perform in a local holiday Christmas concert.
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Emma's Wings: A Bella Sara Tale
Title: Emma's Wings: A Bella Sara Tale
Released: November 25, 2013
Type: Movie
From the creators of the huge trading card sensation, Bella Sara, comes this wonderful family adventure that takes viewers on a magical journey to "North of North."
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Leap 4 Your Life
Title: Leap 4 Your Life
Character: Brooke
Released: September 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Winning isn't everything....it's the ONLY thing! In the tradition of 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'This is Spinal Tap',' Leap 4 Your Life' is a feature film mockumentary about a community dance competition. The story follows a group of colourful teen contestants and their enthusiastic parents as they prepare and compete in the 10th Annual Leap 4 Your Life event.
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
Title: Tom, Dick and Harriet
Character: Kelly Burns
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
When Tom loses his job at an advertising agency, he enlists a youthful con-man to help save his career.
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The Horses of McBride
Title: The Horses of McBride
Character: Nicki Davidson
Released: December 2, 2012
Type: Movie
When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to find a way to get them to safety. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path, inspiring her father, Matt, and the rest of the community to join together and save the horses in the spirit of Christmas.
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A Killer Among Us
Title: A Killer Among Us
Character: Marissa Drake
Released: September 8, 2012
Type: Movie
After the shocking murder of her mother, a girl helps a police detective by searching her home for clues that they hope will lead to the perpetrator.
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Seattle Superstorm
Title: Seattle Superstorm
Character: Chloe Peterson
Released: March 31, 2012
Type: Movie
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to affect the local weather, ultimately threatening the whole world.
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Title: Hell on Wheels
Character: Naomi Bohannon
Released: November 6, 2011
Type: TV
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
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Finding a Family
Title: Finding a Family
Character: Jen Bante
Released: October 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by graduating from Harvard. But when mother becomes manic-depressive and repeatedly dumps her medication, Alex each time lands in foster care. At age 16, he gets legal emancipation and vows to take charge of their lives himself
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Title: R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Character: Lanie / Stepmother
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: TV
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
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Title: R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Character: Alexa
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: TV
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
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45 R.P.M.
Title: 45 R.P.M.
Character: Debbie Baxter
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
In the Autumn of 1960, a fluke atmospheric weather condition allows a young teenager, Parry Tender, to receive a radio broadcast from New York City. Nestled in the Northern town of Goose Lake, Saskatchewan, Parry believes the contest the New York radio D.J. is running may be his ticket out of town, and away from a life to which he feels he never belonged. When Debbie Baxter, a young girl from California, arrives in the town by way of her father's position with the military, Parry soon discovers love, loss, and the magic of rock and roll.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Lauren
Released: June 21, 2008
Type: Movie
The second wife, a vibrant young TV producer, of a very successful divorce lawyer fears she'll lose him to a younger woman who declares her intent to steal him away — which is precisely what wife number two did four years earlier to his first wife.
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Christmas in Wonderland
Title: Christmas in Wonderland
Character: Shane
Released: December 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to Edmonton. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall they find counterfeit cash. They inadvertently help catch the crooks, and later make a discovery about Santa
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Kim
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Inn Deep
Title: Inn Deep
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A socialite is kidnapped by a group but it goes wrong. The group is now on the run and hides out in the "Inn Deep".