Arsinée Khanjian

Arsinée Khanjian

Born: September 6, 1958
in Beirut, Lebanon
Arsinée Khanjian (born 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon Արսինէ Խանճեան) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Her husband, Egoyan, credits her for inspiring him to further explore his Armenian roots. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile.

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Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
Title: Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was toppled and democracy restored. Deemed short of a miracle, BLOODLESS is a riveting political thriller, capturing the story as events unfold in the spring of 2018 in Armenia.
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Guest of Honour
Title: Guest of Honour
Character: Anna
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
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We Are Gold
Title: We Are Gold
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by her childhood friends, Kristoff and Kevin, who is the only survivor of the mining collapse. For GOLD's short-lived trio, commemorative week will slowly drag them into shocking and confusing areas.
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Title: Coroner
Character: Muna Khalighi
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
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Tenderness
Title: Tenderness
Released: November 10, 2018
Type: Movie
It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the individual tragedies encounters the passing of time and where hope mingles with melancholy.
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The Other Side of November
Title: The Other Side of November
Character: Léa / Layla
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.
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Lost in Armenia
Title: Lost in Armenia
Character: Tzarkanoush
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
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Atlit
Title: Atlit
Character: Mona
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: Movie
In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Character: La mère de Paul
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
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The Cut
Title: The Cut
Character: Frau Nakashian
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: Diane
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Nobody Else But You
Title: Nobody Else But You
Character: Juliette Geminy
Released: January 12, 2011
Type: Movie
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.
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Adoration
Title: Adoration
Character: Sabine
Released: April 15, 2009
Type: Movie
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
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Stone Time Touch
Title: Stone Time Touch
Released: October 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armenia. The young woman (played by Kamee Abrahamian) is visiting Armenia for the first time. The older woman, Arsinée Khanjian has a more conflicted and analytical perspective of her identity and her relationship with the fledgling democracy, one of the former Soviet Union republics. She has been to landlocked Armenia many times and comments on photos taken by French photographer Marc Baguelin. The third trajectory is more subtle and is represented by Gariné Torossian herself whose face is super imposed from time to time in this stylistically-layered documentary.
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The Lark Farm
Title: The Lark Farm
Character: Armineh
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
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Citadel
Title: Citadel
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about a journey to Beirut
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Where the Truth Lies
Title: Where the Truth Lies
Character: Publishing Executive
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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Sabah
Title: Sabah
Character: Sabah
Released: June 4, 2005
Type: Movie
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Title: Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
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Ararat
Title: Ararat
Character: Ani
Released: May 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
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Title: Foreign Objects
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Foreign Objects was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 2001. A short-run dramatic anthology series, the series was written and produced by Ken Finkleman. Finkleman starred as documentary producer George Findlay, the same character he had played in his earlier series The Newsroom, More Tears and Foolish Heart. Apart from Findlay, each episode focused on a different set of characters, and portrayed a self-contained story around the theme of human frailty and obsession. The cast also included Colm Feore, Karen Hines, Tom McCamus, Arsinée Khanjian and Rebecca Jenkins. Finkleman's next project for the CBC was the television movie Escape from the Newsroom.
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Fat Girl
Title: Fat Girl
Character: Mother
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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Code Unknown
Title: Code Unknown
Character: Francine
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
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Felicia's Journey
Title: Felicia's Journey
Character: Gala
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
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Title: Foolish Heart
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: TV
Foolish Heart was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1999. The series, a short run dramatic anthology, was produced and written by Ken Finkleman following his earlier series The Newsroom and More Tears. Although the episodes were linked by character interactions, each of the series' six episodes focused on a different character's family or romantic relationship problems. Finkleman also starred in the series as George Findlay, the same character he had played in The Newsroom and More Tears. The series won Finkleman a 1999 Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series. The cast also included Arsinée Khanjian, Sarah Strange, Tom McCamus, Nancy Beatty and Patricia O'Callaghan. Finkleman's next project for the CBC was the series Foreign Objects.
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Late August, Early September
Title: Late August, Early September
Character: Lucie
Released: February 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
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Last Night
Title: Last Night
Character: Streetcar Mother
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Sentimental Education
Title: Sentimental Education
Character: Arthur
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
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Ms. Scrooge
Title: Ms. Scrooge
Character: Libba Cratchit
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
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Sarabande
Title: Sarabande
Character: Sarah
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
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The Sweet Hereafter
Title: The Sweet Hereafter
Character: Wanda Otto
Released: September 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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Irma Vep
Title: Irma Vep
Character: L'américaine
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Clad in a rubber catsuit and unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself adrift in the insanity of the film industry…
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A Portrait of Arshile
Title: A Portrait of Arshile
Character: Voice
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
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Exotica
Title: Exotica
Character: Zoe
Released: November 30, 1994
Type: Movie
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
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Calendar
Title: Calendar
Character: Translator
Released: June 3, 1993
Type: Movie
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
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Chickpeas
Title: Chickpeas
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Raffi, Paul and Ohan grew up together in war-torn Beirut. Ten years later, we find the childhood friends in Hollywood, caught up in a tougher struggle: the pursuit of the American dream.
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The Adjuster
Title: The Adjuster
Character: Hera
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
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Montreal Stories
Title: Montreal Stories
Character: Rima
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
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In Passing
Title: In Passing
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.
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Speaking Parts
Title: Speaking Parts
Character: Lisa
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
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The Box of Sun
Title: The Box of Sun
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray world have access to a source of light which is in the wintry woods. They collect it into small boxes that they use to revive people imprisoned in pictures. A young woman grieving for her lost lover goes in search of these children so that they can bring her beloved back to life.
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Family Viewing
Title: Family Viewing
Character: Aline
Released: September 9, 1987
Type: Movie
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
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Next of Kin
Title: Next of Kin
Character: Azah Deryan
Released: November 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.
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Hokees
Title: Hokees
Character: Anahid
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means "soul" or "spirit."