Alison Sealy-Smith
Biography: Alison Sealy-Smith (born 1959) is a Barbadian-born, Canadian actress who is best known for her role as Storm in various Marvel animated TV series. Smith was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and raised in Toronto. She attended Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, where she studied psychology on a scholarship. She is the founding director of Obsidian Theatre, a company that specialises in African-Canadian drama. Smith was awarded a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her 1997 star turn in Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet. Her film and television credits have included the series Street Legal, This is Wonderland, and The Line, and a recurring role in Kevin Hill. She also had a small role in the 1998 film My Date with the President's Daughter. Smith also voiced characters in various animated series, such as Storm on the 1990s X-Men and Scarlett on the Teletoon series Delilah and Julius. She played Sergeant Rose in the film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Honey (with Jessica Alba), Dark Water, and Talk to Me. Since the mid-2000s, she had a recurring role as Ms. Mann in the children's series Naturally, Sadie. In 2009, she performed as Nurse Lydia in the HBO Canada series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. Smith won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1997 for Best Female Performance for her role in Harlem Duet. She also won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2009 for Outstanding Performance By A Female In A Principal Role with her role as Lena in A Raisin In The Sun. Her daughter, Makyla Smith, is also an actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alison Sealy-Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: November 30, 1958
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Honey
2003-11-24
Honey
Overview: Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-24
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The Skulls III
2004-03-23
The Skulls III
Overview: A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-23
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Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Movie
2001-08-07
Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: The Movie
Overview: Little Bear and Father Bear go camping in the wilderness where Little Bear encounters all kinds of new sights and sounds: an eagle's flight, a wolf's howl... and a wild little bear named Cub fishing in a stream. Even though they're from different worlds, Little Bear and Cub become fast friends.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-07
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Hit for Six
2007-08-01
Hit for Six
Overview: Hit For Six! is the story of a playboy West Indies cricketer who is still fighting the demons of his past, which includes a match-fixing charge. He learns about love as he struggles for his last chance to play in a major global tournament. And he desperately wants to earn the respect of his estranged father, a former great West Indies cricketer. This inspirational and emotional drama, punctuated with excitement, intrigue and love, recounts how Alex Nelson, a talented but inconsistent cricketer, has been sidelined from the West Indies team for scuffling with his coach, Amir Misra of India. Blackballed by the team for three years, he pursues an unlikely quest to get back on the team for a last chance to play in the Global One Day Series — an opportunity unfairly denied to his father.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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Friends at Last
1995-04-02
Friends at Last
Overview: Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-02
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Talk to Me
2007-07-13
Talk to Me
Overview: The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-13
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Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
2002-03-11
Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-03-11
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You Kill Me
2007-02-09
You Kill Me
Overview: While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Loser
2000-07-21
Loser
Overview: On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-21
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
2024-05-21
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
Overview: Spend time with the original cast, along with new voices, as this behind-the-scenes special recalls the birth of "X-Men: The Animated Series," and its revival thirty years later as "X-Men '97."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-21
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A House Divided
2000-07-30
A House Divided
Overview: In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-30
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Meris Kanispol
2022-12-01
Meris Kanispol
Overview: Growing up with his stepparents in Greece, a young man of 20 murders a vagrant, who unbeknownst to him is his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works at the prison. Neither of them know that she is his biological mother. 20 years later, living with his daughter in Berlin, he gradually loses his sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 2022-12-01
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Labor of Love
1998-05-04
Labor of Love
Overview: Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-04
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
2004-02-17
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Overview: When the always dramatic Lola and her family move from the center of everything in New York City to the center of a cultural wasteland in suburban New Jersey, she feels her life is simply not worth living! But no matter who or what gets in the way, Lola won't give up on her life's ambition: to be a star! In a crowd-pleasing movie treat bursting with music, dance and excitement, Lola's fun-filled adventure won't be glamorous or easy, but it might just show her that real life could exceed even her wildest dreams!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-17
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Haunting Sarah
2005-10-02
Haunting Sarah
Overview: A mother dealing with the death of her young son learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-02
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Down in the Delta
1998-12-25
Down in the Delta
Overview: A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Rude
1995-09-08
Rude
Overview: This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Dark Water
2005-07-08
Dark Water
Overview: Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences—and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom…
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-08
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Vigilante: The Crossing
2015-02-15
Vigilante: The Crossing
Overview: Dexter Gooding (Kirk Brown), an ex-convict, deported from the US returns to his homeland to find his beloved community Bakers Village engulfed in crime. The police are out-gunned and out-numbered. Rape, murder and robbery plague his once beautiful paradise. Armed with guilt of past crimes and a genuine passion for his birthplace, Dexter takes on the mission of Vigilante. In true Robin Hood style, Dexter mercilessly seeks to eradicate Bakers Village of all criminals. Its on this very ruthless path, he meets Amy (Malissa Alana), a white Barbadian woman, who is on a similar mission and their worlds collide. Black and white, rich and poor, upper and lower class, and as the their paths cross...the historical cap of racial, class and social prejudice, violently erupts and suddenly threatens the mission. Love, hate, passion, guilt and prejudice all meet head on and Dexter and his beloved Bakers Village are now at a Crossroad.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-15
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The Ride
2000-08-27
The Ride
Overview: Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follows the daily lives of drivers for an urban cab company.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-27
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