Liane Balaban

Liane Balaban

Born: June 24, 1980
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Liane Balaban (born June 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in New Waterford Girl (1999), playing Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, and has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe (2008), Last Chance Harvey (2009), and the independent drama One Week (2008).

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Midnight at the Paradise
Title: Midnight at the Paradise
Character: Iris
Released: April 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Three couples at different stages of their relationships come to appreciate that any marriage requires equal doses of delusion, forgiveness, laughter, and sexual chemistry.
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You Can Live Forever
Title: You Can Live Forever
Character: Beth
Released: March 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
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Lullaby
Title: Lullaby
Character: Vivian
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A new mother discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
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Woman in Car
Title: Woman in Car
Character: Safiye
Released: September 21, 2021
Type: Movie
When Anne's stepson returns home with a beautiful woman, she develops an obsession with the stranger whom she fears could destroy the privileged life she has built.
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A Small Fortune
Title: A Small Fortune
Character: Sam Doucette
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Kevin is an Irish Moss farmer committed to his traditional way of doing things at the expense of a more lucrative life for himself and his pregnant wife. When he finds a bag of money washed up on the shores of Prince Edward Island, his decision to keep it secret turns his quaint fishing village into a growing crime scene as the money’s owners come calling. Adapted from Adam Perry's award-winning short film A Blessing from the Sea.
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Meditation Park
Title: Meditation Park
Character: Dylan
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
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Bickford Park
Title: Bickford Park
Character: Jill
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman secretly starts taking skateboarding lessons from a handsome teenager to avoid dealing with the problems in her marriage.
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The People Garden
Title: The People Garden
Character: Wardrobe Girl
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Sweetpea searches for her missing rock star boyfriend Jamie in a forest in Japan.
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Title: Man Seeking Woman
Character: Claire
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: TV
Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it.
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The Grand Seduction
Title: The Grand Seduction
Character: Kathleen
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
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Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Title: Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.
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Title: Played
Character: Lida Simenko
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: TV
The Covert Investigations Unit (CIU) risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of short-term, high-intensity undercover work, each covert “play” is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are.
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Finding Joy
Title: Finding Joy
Character: Joy
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. Life at home begins to show signs of improvement when Kyle meets the spunky, vivacious girl across the street who recruits Kyle to help her make the world a better place, making him feel alive for the first time in ages and inspiring his writing. But its short-lived. Joys been told shes going to die soon and wants Kyle to write her obituary.
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Title: Motive
Character: Sarah Muller
Released: February 3, 2013
Type: TV
A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.
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Maniac
Title: Maniac
Character: Judy
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
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Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
Title: Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
Character: Irene (segment "The New Tenants")
Released: September 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.
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Title: Alphas
Character: Anna Levy
Released: July 11, 2011
Type: TV
Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.
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The Future Is Now!
Title: The Future Is Now!
Character: Woman Of Tomorrow
Released: June 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters. As an experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter. Travelling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great minds in the arts and sciences. Starting with an unexpected poetry reading and conversation with experimental poet Christian Bök, Man of Today engages with architect Shigeru Ban, activist Francis Dupuis-Déri, philosopher Alain de Botton, artist Marlene Dumas, novelist Rivka Galchen, leading scientists and a ghost. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?
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Rise of the Damned
Title: Rise of the Damned
Character: Jesse
Released: June 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parents' lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together. The situation is complicated by the fact that her parents virtually vanished, as did the accident wreckage, so there's no evidence for the police and certainly no closure for her. Jesse meets her fears head-on when she and a group of filmmakers break into an abandoned mental institution, she immediately experiences a visceral deja-vu. The asylum seems somehow connected to her missing parents and furthermore, the building is far from deserted. The group discovers that a sinister doctor has taken up residence in the building's vast underground and he is using extreme science trying to bring his wife back from the dead! The basement also contains the countless remains of the doctor's failed experiments, all of which are now slowly coming back to life when they make contact with a murky substance that has begun to leak out of several holding tanks!
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Coach
Title: Coach
Character: Gabrielle
Released: June 13, 2010
Type: Movie
A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
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The Trotsky
Title: The Trotsky
Character: Nadza
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
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Abroad
Title: Abroad
Character: Amy Pearce
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: Movie
A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the London Post.
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The New Tenants
Title: The New Tenants
Character: Irene
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic.
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Not Since You
Title: Not Since You
Character: Heather
Released: October 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A romantic drama about a tight-knit group of college friends who graduated from NYU the year of 9/11 and reunite years later for a weekend wedding in Georgia. Unresolved conflicts and love affairs spark again.
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You Might As Well Live
Title: You Might As Well Live
Character: Edna Kemperton
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money and a championship ring.
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Last Chance Harvey
Title: Last Chance Harvey
Character: Susan Shine Wright
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
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Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Title: Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Character: Lily
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: Movie
When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.
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One Week
Title: One Week
Character: Samantha Pierce
Released: September 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
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Definitely, Maybe
Title: Definitely, Maybe
Character: Kelly
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
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Above and Beyond
Title: Above and Beyond
Character: Shelagh Emberly
Released: October 29, 2006
Type: Movie
True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.
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Title: Above and Beyond
Character: Shelagh Emberly
Released: October 29, 2006
Type: TV
Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30. The miniseries is about the Atlantic Ferry Organization, which was tasked with delivering aircraft from North America to Europe in the early years of the Second World War. It stars Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Scarfe, Liane Balaban, Allan Hawco, Kenneth Welsh, and Jason Priestley.
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Burnt Toast
Title: Burnt Toast
Character: Woman
Released: October 1, 2005
Type: Movie
An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Amelia Richardson
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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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Eternal
Title: Eternal
Character: Lisa
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.
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Seven Times Lucky
Title: Seven Times Lucky
Character: Fiona
Released: January 17, 2004
Type: Movie
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
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Happy Here and Now
Title: Happy Here and Now
Character: Amelia
Released: June 8, 2002
Type: Movie
When her sister suddenly vanishes, a young girl sets out to find her, desperately searching the internet for clues. Joining her is an ex-CIA agent, who uncovers fragments of online chats the missing girl had with a softcore pornographer.
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The Wisher
Title: The Wisher
Character: Mary
Released: May 31, 2002
Type: Movie
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
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World Traveler
Title: World Traveler
Character: Meg
Released: April 19, 2002
Type: Movie
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
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After the Harvest
Title: After the Harvest
Character: Lind Archer
Released: May 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Caleb Gare (Sam Shepard) is a farmer obsessed with owning as much land as he can and controlling his entire family. This becomes more complicated when a beautiful visiting teacher moves into the Gare home and she becomes involved in a battle of wills. To complicate matters more, a deep secret held by Caleb's wife will have to come to the surface. With the family at the breaking point, they must put aside their differences to bring in the year's harvest, after which they celebrate at the town's annual festival. Little does Caleb suspect that the one night of celebration will end in disaster, turmoil, and forever change the family.
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Saint Jude
Title: Saint Jude
Character: Jude
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jude's father kicks her out of the house for her abusive and thieving ways, Jude is forced to survive on the streets with the assistance of her odd assortment of friends, including middle aged pedophile Clarence, pre-teen male hustler Georgie, pimp Big Al, and Maureen's junkie boyfriend Gabe. Georgie has a crush on Jude, while Jude unrealistically fantasizes about a normal married life with Gabe. All the while, Jude is also trying to elude the sadistic Mink, who she inadvertently crossed
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New Waterford Girl
Title: New Waterford Girl
Character: Moonie Pottie
Released: September 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.