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Valerie Buhagiar is a Actor Canadienne born on 12 may 1963
Valerie Buhagiar (born 1964 in Mosta, Malta) is a Maltese-born Canadian actress, film director and television host.
She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was The Passion of Rita Camilleri, which won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival in 1993.
Buhagiar has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, for The Lorca Play and White Trash, Blue Eyes.
She has also hosted film programming on the Canadian television networks Showcase and TVOntario.
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She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was The Passion of Rita Camilleri, which won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival in 1993.
Buhagiar has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, for The Lorca Play and White Trash, Blue Eyes.
She has also hosted film programming on the Canadian television networks Showcase and TVOntario.
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Eyewitness (2015)
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, Robert Lieberman, Fred Olen Ray
Genres Thriller
Actors Brigid Brannagh, Julianne Nicholson, Ivan Sergei, Tyler Young, James Paxton, Tim Abell
Roles Cheryl Pitzker
Rating43%
Sharon et sa fille Cassie partent faire du rafting pour resserrer leurs liens après le divorce de Sharon. Diabétique, Cassie doit régulièrement vérifier son taux de glycémie. Elle voulant récupérer son sac tombé à l'eau, la jeune fille aperçoit trois évadés de prison à la recherche de l'argent qu'ils ont volé. Alors qu'ils se disputent, l'un d'eux tombe d'une falaise et, juste avant de mourir, confie à Cassie l'endroit où il a caché l'argent…
A Winter Tale (2007)
, 1h40Directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Williams, Valerie Buhagiar, Nicole Stamp
Rating82%
A Winter Tale tells the story of a Black men's support group that begins to meet at a Caribbean Takeaway restaurant in the aftermath of the shooting death of a local child. It was developed through a collaborative improvisational process with the cast, who were drawn from Toronto's Caribbean and multicultural communities. It was shot on location in Parkdale, Toronto.
Cypher (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about altered memories, Spy films, Films about computing, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films
Actors Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, David Hewlett, Kari Matchett
Roles Buffalo Speaker #2
Rating66%
Morgan Sullivan (Northam), a recently unemployed accountant, is bored with his suburban life. Pressured by his wife to take a job with her father's company, he instead pursues a position in corporate espionage. Digicorp's Head of Security, Finster (Bennett), inducts Morgan and assigns him a new identity. As Jack Thursby, he is sent to conventions to secretly record presentations and transmit them to headquarters. Sullivan is soon haunted by recurring nightmares and neck pain. When he meets Rita Foster (Liu) from a competing corporation, his life starts to become complicated.
The Wet Season (2002)
Genres Drama
Actors Ellen Page, Maury Chaykin, Valerie Buhagiar, Elissa Sursara
Rating61%
Highway 61 (1991)
, 1h42Directed by Bruce McDonald
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar, Peter Breck, Jello Biafra, Tracy Wright
Roles Jackie Bangs
Rating69%
The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning, Jones discovers a frozen corpse (Steve Fall) in his backyard, and soon meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a tough and mysterious roadie who claims the dead man is her brother.
Roadkill (1989)
, 1h20Directed by Bruce McDonald
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar, Bruce McDonald
Roles Ramona
Rating66%
The film stars Valerie Buhagiar as Ramona, an intern at a Toronto record label who is sent to Sudbury by promoter Roy Seth (Gerry Quigley) to track down the label's star band, Children of Paradise, after they disappear on tour. Because she doesn't know how to drive, however, she takes a taxi driven by Buddy (Larry Hudson) for the entire 400-km route.
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
, 1h50Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Terry O'Quinn, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado
Roles Alice
Rating60%
Kate Soffel is the wife of a Pittsburgh prison warden in 1901. They have four children. After several months of being sick in bed for no discernible reason that doctors can figure out, she suddenly regains her strength. She visits inmates to read Bible scripture to them and meets Ed Biddle and his brother Jack, both of whom may be innocent of the crimes that brought them here.