Leah Pinsent

Leah Pinsent

Born: September 20, 1968
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leah Pinsent (born September 20th, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer and producer.

Movies for Leah Pinsent...

Luckiest Girl Alive
Title: Luckiest Girl Alive
Character: Hallsy Harrison
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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Wickensburg
Title: Wickensburg
Character: Mrs Johnstone
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
A mother and her young son move to a new small town. They soon discover the town harbors a dark secret, and it's a race against time to save the town.
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Big News From Grand Rock
Title: Big News From Grand Rock
Released: February 27, 2015
Type: Movie
A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.
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Wet Bum
Title: Wet Bum
Character: Mary Ellen
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
An awkward teenage outcast finds unlikely companions in two aged residents of the retirement home in which she works.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Character: Miss Cleghorn
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
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Still Rowdy After All These Years
Title: Still Rowdy After All These Years
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.
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The Bend
Title: The Bend
Character: Mrs. Campbell
Released: April 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Jason Campbell thinks he is losing his mind. Maybe it's true. His brother Mike died a year ago on the night of the prom. With his deceased brother's girlfriend and friends, Jason swears to find out what really happened that night and if it could happen to him...
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Det. Sheila Lang
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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Title: 18 to Life
Released: January 4, 2010
Type: TV
18 to Life is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on January 4, 2010, on CBC Television. The series is shown in Quebec on Vrak.TV with the title Majeurs et mariés.
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1st Bite
Title: 1st Bite
Character: Rose
Released: December 31, 2006
Type: Movie
Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.
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Heyday!
Title: Heyday!
Character: Movie Queen
Released: March 27, 2006
Type: Movie
During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.
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Burnt Toast
Title: Burnt Toast
Character: Julie
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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Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534
Title: Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534
Character: Sarah
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, received with disdain by the well-connected commander. Surprisingly his come-back proves less then routine, as the captain gets knocked out and a collision as well as a murderer being transported by police require courageous action from Mike, his crew and several passengers, including soccer star Ty Conner.
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20:13 Mord im Blitzlicht
Title: 20:13 Mord im Blitzlicht
Character: Eva
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Made in Canada
Released: October 5, 1998
Type: TV
Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong. In the United States, France, Australia and Latin America, the show was syndicated as The Industry. It was produced using a single camera setup.
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Title: More Tears
Released: March 30, 1998
Type: TV
More Tears is a seriocomedy television series that was broadcast by CBC Television, as a short run programme; it was written and produced by Ken Finkleman following the success of The Newsroom, and was partly a remake of 8½, by Federico Fellini. As in The Newsroom, George Findlay is the protagonist of More Tears, as a documentary producer, who manipulated his subjects in order to create better television drama. In the final installment, Findlay abandoned the documentary form to film a satire of the neo-conservative government of Mike Harris, the Premier of Ontario. The programme also explored the personal life of George Findlay, his unhappy marriage, and his unhappy extra-marital affairs. The cast of More Tears also included Hrant Alianak, Yank Azman, Arsinée Khanjian, Leah Pinsent, Evan Solomon, and Kenny Vadas. Finkleman's next project for the CBC was the series Foolish Heart.
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Lies He Told
Title: Lies He Told
Released: March 16, 1997
Type: Movie
A charming military man arranges his own disappearance and death in order to begin a new life with a woman who is completely deceived by his lies. Bored by his military career and secure lifestyle with his wife, Cindy, and two children, Dave Bay falls in love with Alyson and plots a new existence. This new, deceptive life includes bank robberies committed as a desperate means to support his new family and hide his past. Inspired by actual events.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Larraine Keller
Released: December 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a National Park.
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Title: Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.
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The Little Kidnappers
Title: The Little Kidnappers
Character: Kirsten MacKenzie
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
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Brutal Glory
Title: Brutal Glory
Character: Julia Woodruff (as Leah King Pinsent)
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
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Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear
Title: Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear
Character: Jayne Manley
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Journalist Jayne Manley tries to get back the job she lost. She leaves to investigate a millionaire who is rumored to have bought a precious gem, the Emerald Tear. If she can find proof of this, the scoop would ensure a new job at the newspaper. But Jayne and Edward fall madly in love and the secret of her true identity is revealed.
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April Fool's Day
Title: April Fool's Day
Character: Nan Youngblood
Released: March 27, 1986
Type: Movie
As soon as Muffy St. John and her college friends arrive on her parents' secluded island, someone starts trimming the guest list... one murder at a time.
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The Bay Boy
Title: The Bay Boy
Character: Saxon Coldwell
Released: September 6, 1984
Type: Movie
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?