Cara Pifko

Cara Pifko

Born: March 15, 1976
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cara Pifko (born March 15, 1976) is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Pifko was born in Toronto, Ontario. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, she started acting at the age of 8 and worked all through the 1990s, but it was in 2000 that she landed her first starring role, in the series Our Hero, which was aimed at young teens. Her first acting role was The Elephant Show hosted by Sharon, Lois, and Bram in which she was present in all seasons.

In 2004 she showed her dramatic range by appearing as a foreign aid worker in the acclaimed mini-series Human Cargo. Pifko then landed the lead role in the legal drama This is Wonderland, which garnered her a Gemini Award in 2005 for best actress. In early 2006, she appeared as Isolda in Tarragon Theatre's production of Léo. In 2007 she starred in the Lifetime TV movie I Me Wed. In 2009, she joined the soap opera General Hospital as the recurring character of Louise Addison.

In 2010 Cara lent her voice to Suu, a pink Twi'lek in the "Deserter" episode, and as scientist Sionver Boll in "The Zillo Beast" and "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back" episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She also voiced Yeoman Kelly Chambers in the video games Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3.

In 2016 she joined the Season 2 cast of Better Call Saul as recurring character Paige Novick, senior legal counsel for Mesa Verde Bank and Trust, and friend of Kim Wexler.

Cara also voiced Suu Lawquane in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

Movies for Cara Pifko...

Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Character: Suu (voice)
Released: May 4, 2021
Type: TV
The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.
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Ready Player One
Title: Ready Player One
Character: Leslee
Released: March 28, 2018
Type: Movie
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Title: Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Character: Laura
Released: October 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.
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Title: Rosewood
Character: Barbara Gaines
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: TV
Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology and his drive to live life to the fullest to help a tough-as-nails detective and the Miami PD uncover clues no one else can see.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Paige Novick
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Sharkskin
Title: Sharkskin
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The Post War II story of Manhattan born Mike Esposito, a practiced tailor of custom mens clothing; a man of dignity and honor, whose developing involvements with the Italian mob wraps him up in a world of moral dilemma and clashing values.
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The Possession of Michael King
Title: The Possession of Michael King
Character: Samantha
Released: August 14, 2014
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.
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Title: The Fosters
Character: Natalie
Released: June 3, 2013
Type: TV
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
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Title: Monday Mornings
Character: Beth Hostetler
Released: February 4, 2013
Type: TV
Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for the series. On May 10, 2013, Monday Mornings was canceled by TNT.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns
Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns
Character: Nightsister (voice)
Released: September 11, 2012
Type: Movie
After Dathomir falls prey to a merciless attack by General Grievous, Asajj Ventress survives to join a bounty hunter clan led by a young Boba Fett. Meanwhile, the dark warrior Savage Opress returns to his creator, the witch Mother Talzin, who gives him a sinister mission: to search the galaxy for his brother, Sith Apprentice Darth Maul. Believed dead for over a decade after falling to the sword of then Jedi Apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Maul is nearly unrecognizable, residing in the bowels of a ruined planet and fueled by hatred. Savage Opress delivers the shattered Maul to Mother Talzin to restore his former powers, and the brothers vow an oath of vengeance against Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Title: Against the Wall
Character: Betsy Harris
Released: July 31, 2011
Type: TV
This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.
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Title: Castle
Character: Roberta Cambridge
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character: Suu (voice)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character: Dr. Sionver Boll (voice)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character: Nightsister (voice)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character: TJ-912 / Naa'leth (voice)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character: Orphne (voice)
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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For the Love of Grace
Title: For the Love of Grace
Character: Jen
Released: August 30, 2008
Type: Movie
With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet heroic style, seems to be heading in the opposite direction That is, until a fateful fire rescue fans the flames of attraction and gives them both a new perspective on life.
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Charlie & Me
Title: Charlie & Me
Character: Dr. Fran Gilford
Released: January 5, 2008
Type: Movie
When her beloved grandfather Charlie suddenly falls ill, twelve year-old Casey finds herself making some life or death decisions—and learning to live with the consequences.
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Title: Heartland
Character: Mackenzie Hutton
Released: October 14, 2007
Type: TV
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
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I Me Wed
Title: I Me Wed
Character: Amy
Released: July 29, 2007
Type: Movie
Successful thirtysomething Isabelle decides to marry herself, becoming a public sensation. But when opportunity comes knocking, will she cheat on herself to pursue what might be true love with someone else?
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Title: The Jane Show
Character: Beth
Released: June 1, 2006
Type: TV
Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all.
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Title: This Is Wonderland
Character: Alice De Raey
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: TV
This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series was a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F. Walker, his writing partner Dani Romain, and Osgoode Hall Law School graduate and longtime Canadian TV producer Bernard Zukerman. The first season aired in 2004, the second season began on January 25, 2005 and the third season began on November 23, 2005. On February 13, 2006, the CBC declined to order a fourth season, effectively cancelling the show. The final episode aired on March 15, 2006. Repeats of the first and second season currently air on Canadian digital specialty channel, bold, as well as on VisionTV.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Kelsey Donner
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Name of the Rose
Title: Name of the Rose
Character: Kim
Released: March 3, 2003
Type: Movie
A Master Criminal needs to test the depths of his immorality by choosing the woman he loves as his next victim.
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Apples and Oranges
Title: Apples and Oranges
Released: February 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Apples and Oranges is designed to raise children's awareness of the harmful effects of homophobia and gender-related name calling, intolerance, stereotyping and bullying. In the course of a lively in-class discussion among elementary students and an equity educator, children's paintings magically dissolve into two short animated stories. In Anta's Revenge, Anta finds out that creativity--not revenge--is the best way to deal with a school bully who makes fun of her for having two moms. Defying Gravity tells the story of Habib and Jeroux, two skateboarding friends whose relationship comes to a screeching halt when one of them finds out the other is gay.
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Salem Witch Trials
Title: Salem Witch Trials
Character: Mary Warren
Released: December 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Title: Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Character: Jane Hanssen
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Nora Manning
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Donna Hicks
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Interviews With My Next Girlfriend
Title: Interviews With My Next Girlfriend
Character: Woman with nose piercing
Released: June 6, 2002
Type: Movie
In a desperate bid to take the guesswork out of finding a girlfriend, a faceless, voiceless, but obviously intrepid interviewer decides to make a job of it.
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Title: Bliss
Released: March 21, 2002
Type: TV
Bliss is a Canadian produced, half hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica. The series ran from 2002 to 2004. The format of the show—short, sensual vignettes adapted for television—aired on Oxygen in the United States and Showcase, TMN and Movie Central in Canada. The series is distributed by Oasis International in Toronto.
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Title: Blue Murder
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: TV
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
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CyberWorld
Title: CyberWorld
Character: Computer (voice)
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
A collaboration of computer-animated films which features new characters and old friends from the award-winning Fox network television series, "The Simpsons" and Dreamworks' feature film "Antz" The saucy, synthetic hostess, Phig, takes the viewers through Cyberworld 3D, a futuristic gallery of wild adventure and spectacular images. Trouble arrives in the form of three unwelcomed guests named Buzzed, Wired and Frazzled who are inadvertently destroying the environment's foundation, forcing Phig into a hilarious battle to save herself and Cyberworld 3D from total annihilation!
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Title: Our Hero
Character: Kale Stiglic
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: TV
Our Hero is a critically acclaimed television show on the CBC from 2000 to 2002. It ran for 26 episodes over two seasons, and was syndicated in the U.S. and U.K. The title character was teenager Kale Stiglic who created a zine about her life in suburban Toronto, with her friends Ross, Mary-Elizabeth, and Dalal. Each episode was named after an "issue" of her zine. Plot segments were interspersed with quirky animated sequences narrated by Kale, with the animation reflecting the illustrations used in that issue's zine.
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Title: Twice in a Lifetime
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: TV
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
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Below the Belt
Title: Below the Belt
Character: Jill
Released: February 10, 1999
Type: Movie
Seventeen year old girls Jill and Oona explore their sexuality in between bouts of boxing and playfighting. Yet when Oona invites Jill back to her house, the sparring spills over into something much more intense.
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Mariette in Ecstasy
Title: Mariette in Ecstasy
Character: Sister Hermance
Released: July 4, 1996
Type: Movie
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
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Incident in a Small Town
Title: Incident in a Small Town
Character: Nancy
Released: January 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Lily and her son John live alone in a small town as her husband has been killed fighting the war in France. Or at least that is what she told John, but the arrival of Frank back in the town leads him to find out that she not only has been lying about that but also about the fact that she never married him. When Frank tussles with Lily in her yard she applies for a restraining order, calling on the help of her father (the esteemed judge Stoddard Bell) and his partner (lawyer Harmon Cobb). The case fails and when Frank is found murdered later that night Stoddard is arrested and Cobb has a defence case on his hands.
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Ordinary Magic
Title: Ordinary Magic
Character: Lucy
Released: October 20, 1993
Type: Movie
When his father dies, Jeffrey is sent to live with his aunt Charlotte in Canada. Once there he leads his aunt and his friends in staging, a non-violent hunger strike to try to save his aunt's house from being demolished to make room for a ski resort.
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Title: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".
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Title: Human Cargo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Human Cargo is a 2004 Canadian television miniseries. The series won seven Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. It premiered on CBC Television on January 4, 2004 and starred Kate Nelligan, Cara Pifko, and Nicholas Campbell. The series was written by Linda Svendsen and Brian McKeown.