Liisa Repo-Martell

Liisa Repo-Martell

Born: January 1, 1971
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Gemini award winning Canadian actress and artist. Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as "This". Her Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.

Movies for Liisa Repo-Martell...

Flashback
Title: Flashback
Character: Mrs. Fitzell
Released: October 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, Fredrick realizes the only way to stop the visions lies deep within his own memories, so he embarks on a terrifying mental odyssey to learn the truth.
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Happy Place
Title: Happy Place
Character: Nina
Released: September 27, 2020
Type: Movie
"Welcome to the zoo," Samira is advised as she’s admitted to an in-patient care facility in the wake of a suicide attempt. As she slowly familiarizes herself with her fellow residents and their idiosyncratic traits, a makeshift community takes shape.
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Title: Hudson & Rex
Character: Jamie Quinn / Grace Buckley
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: TV
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
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Title: The Umbrella Academy
Character: Abigail Hargreeves
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: TV
A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
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Title: Private Eyes
Character: Deanne
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Regan
Released: February 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
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Title: Remedy
Character: Cynthia
Released: February 24, 2014
Type: TV
Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.
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Title: Saving Hope
Character: Tracy
Released: June 7, 2012
Type: TV
When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris wanders the halls of Hope-Zee in "spirit" form, not sure if he's a ghost or a figment of his own imagination.
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Committed
Title: Committed
Character: Donneymeade
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor as the patients' soon turns to panic as she is told that she is a "guest"- not a doctor, and the papers she signed were not job forms, but commitment papers.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Shannie Malone
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
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Diverted
Title: Diverted
Character: Eileen Northbrook
Released: March 8, 2009
Type: Movie
On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Farm Mother
Released: April 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.
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Lars and the Real Girl
Title: Lars and the Real Girl
Character: Laurel
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Title: Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Character: Carole Genest
Released: April 30, 2006
Type: Movie
When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens.
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Title: Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Character: Carole Genest
Released: January 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
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Letters from Karelia
Title: Letters from Karelia
Character: Narrator
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.
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Amy
Title: Amy
Character: Amy
Released: August 31, 2004
Type: Movie
'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face. Astonishing closing image is a tightly composed telephoto shot on the start of a marathon race among young schoolgirls, dashing toward and then across the screen in ultra-slo-mo, and accompanied by a girls’ chorus hauntingly singing Brian Wilson’s God Only Knows. Widely eclectic lensing and looks in various media and in color and black-and-white flow nicely from one section to the next, aided by gifted editor Mark Karbusicky.' ~ Robert Koehler, Variety - Part 7 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
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Touch of Pink
Title: Touch of Pink
Character: Delia
Released: July 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Alim is a gay man living in London to escape the domineering eye of his conservative Muslim mother, Nuru, back in Canada. Alim keeps his homosexuality secret from his mother, so when she comes for a surprise visit, he and his boyfriend, Giles, must put on a straight facade to hide the truth.
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100 Days In The Jungle
Title: 100 Days In The Jungle
Character: Jane Dunbar
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
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Scared Silent
Title: Scared Silent
Character: Carole Bakelin
Released: May 20, 2002
Type: Movie
When the newlywed wife of a Minnesota police chief accuses a new officer on his force of raping her several years earlier, it sets the stage for a tense confrontation in this riveting story. Penelope Ann Miller and Reed Diamond star as Kathy and Doug Clifson, a hard-working couple whose lives are torn apart when a new officer, John McCrane, joins the force. Kathy recognizes him as the man who raped her when she was a teenager, and while other women soon come forward saying that McCrane also raped them, the police force closes ranks to protect one of their own.
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Forget Me Never
Title: Forget Me Never
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
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Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Title: Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Character: Kristie Schuermann
Released: May 31, 1998
Type: Movie
An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.
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Title: Earth: Final Conflict
Character: Amanda Hayes
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Title: The Hunger
Character: Julian's Assistant
Released: July 20, 1997
Type: TV
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
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Nights Below Station Street
Title: Nights Below Station Street
Character: Adele Walsh
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A pregnant teen has difficulty accepting her father and mother, yet longs to keep the family together.
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Critical Choices
Title: Critical Choices
Character: Amy
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
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Hidden in America
Title: Hidden in America
Character: Angela
Released: December 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
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The English Patient
Title: The English Patient
Character: Jan
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
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Unforgiven
Title: Unforgiven
Character: Faith
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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American Boyfriends
Title: American Boyfriends
Character: Julie La Bell
Released: September 11, 1989
Type: Movie
A Canadian college student learns about life and love during a trip to her cousin's wedding in California.
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Cocktail
Title: Cocktail
Character: Young Couple in Deli
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.