Tanya Allen

Tanya Allen

Born: January 1, 1975
in Toronto, Canada
Tanya Allen is a Canadian actress known for her versatile performances across film and television. She began her acting career in her teens and has appeared in various television shows and films, including TV series like "Degrassi: The Next Generation," "Wild Card," and "The Newsroom," as well as films such as "Happy Campers" and "Liberty Stands Still."

Her dedication to her craft and her ability to portray diverse characters has made her a respected figure in Canadian entertainment. Allen continues to contribute her talent to various projects in film and television.

Movies for Tanya Allen...

The Nest
Title: The Nest
Character: Margy
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
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Title: The Strain
Character: Sarah
Released: July 13, 2014
Type: TV
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
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Meltdown on the Ice Planet
Title: Meltdown on the Ice Planet
Character: Narrator
Released: August 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Film version of a pilot to an unmade series, intercut with a meta storyline about funding of the series disappearing because of a financial meltdown.
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Dose of Reality
Title: Dose of Reality
Character: Alana / Wife
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
2AM, closing time: A cocky bar manager with a shady past and a young handsome bartender discover a beautiful woman bloodied and unconscious in the bathroom of a late night lounge. When she awakens, Tony, Matt and the mysterious Rose are plunged into a stirring evening of dangerous role playing in an ever-escalating game of cat and mouse that forces them to face the dark shadows of themselves. As we begin to piece together the elaborate puzzle, nothing is what it seems. However, one thing is for certain: this Rose is full of thorns.
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Magic
Title: Magic
Character: Tammi
Released: May 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Magic the dog is an angel sent to heal a broken family. Brad is a lawyer, doing the best he can to raise his daughter Kayla without the wife he misses. Kayla is longing for her mother, who died seven years before. Sarah is a medical research scientist who has had an epiphany caused by Magic the dog. As Magic escapes the research lab where he is a subject, and he is pursued by Dr. Ortero and the laboratory's entire security force, he fulfills his angelic role as the catalyst that helps Brad, Kayla and Sarah discover their love for each other. —Executive Producer
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The Grind
Title: The Grind
Character: Courtney
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Luke, is a grifter who owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob. Set in the gritty underbelly of Gardena, CA Luke has to come up with one final scheme to pay back his debt or his life is at risk. Supported by his two only friends, Courtney and Josh, they come together to devise a plan that with a little blind luck just might get Luke out of the hole.
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Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone
Title: Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: Movie
When a freakishly hot summer at Yellowstone National Park creates the perfect conditions for the largest forest fire in American History... Look out!
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Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
Title: Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 2006
Type: Movie
6 part behind the scenes feature on making 'Silent Hill'.
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Silent Hill
Title: Silent Hill
Character: Anna
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
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Chicks With Sticks
Title: Chicks With Sticks
Character: Kate Willings
Released: October 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.
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Fancy Dancing
Title: Fancy Dancing
Character: Karen
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
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Wish You Were Dead
Title: Wish You Were Dead
Character: Tanya Rider
Released: May 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
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Lone Hero
Title: Lone Hero
Character: Sharon
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
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Liberty Stands Still
Title: Liberty Stands Still
Character: May
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.
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Title: Starhunter
Character: Percy Montana
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: TV
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television
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Tail Lights Fade
Title: Tail Lights Fade
Character: Angie
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A young woman (Tanya Allen) rally races across Canada with her boyfriend (Breckin Meyer) and another couple (Jake Busey and Denise Richards) to bail her brother out of a marijuana charge.
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White Lies
Title: White Lies
Character: Erina
Released: March 29, 1998
Type: Movie
How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM. Catherine, a first-year university student who feels alienated from the liberal campus, joins a hate group through the Internet and becomes their voice, only to gradually question their beliefs even as she becomes more deeply involved.
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Platinum
Title: Platinum
Released: October 12, 1997
Type: Movie
An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal.
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Regeneration
Title: Regeneration
Character: Sarah Lumb
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
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The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story
Title: The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story
Character: Kimberly Granger
Released: November 5, 1996
Type: Movie
A husband and wife and their youngest son are murdered in this true story. Their two other sons are left to cope with their loss, but the local sherrif begins to suspect that one of the brothers committed the crime, and must convince the other to help him discover the truth.
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Title: The Newsroom
Character: Audrey
Released: October 21, 1996
Type: TV
The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.
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Lyddie
Title: Lyddie
Character: Lyddie Worthen
Released: October 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Lyddie (Tanya Allen) faces a daunting task: She's struggling to reunite her family and save their farm. To do that, she takes a job at a cotton mill and, with the help of Diana (who's toiled in the mills since age 10), learns that there are risks involved with being a factory girl -- namely, dangerous working conditions and low wages. Soon, Lyddie finds herself in the forefront of a suffrage movement to better those appalling conditions.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Amy Barrett
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Lisa
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: The Great Defender
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Side Effects
Released: October 14, 1994
Type: TV
Side Effects is a Canadian television series
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Ultimate Betrayal
Title: Ultimate Betrayal
Character: Beth, Age 17
Released: March 20, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters.
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Spenser: Ceremony
Title: Spenser: Ceremony
Character: April Kyle
Released: July 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" to Providence and the heart of child pornography in search of one seemingly unimportant runaway whom nobody wants found.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Jennifer Newley
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.