Yanna McIntosh
Also Known As: Yanna MacIntosh
Biography: Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian stage, film and television actress. Yanna honed her craft at the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. Her teaching roles at the National Theatre School and Humber College included directing students in acclaimed productions like Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III. Her portrayal of Pat Barrows in the 2006 TV movie "Doomstown" earned her a 2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role. Notably, McIntosh made history in 2011 as the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in "Ruined," which also garnered her a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance. She had previously won Doras for her roles in Florence Gibson’s "Belle" and Athol Fugard’s "Valley Song."
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Giamaica
Birthday: January 01, 1970
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Gender: Female
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Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Overview: A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-23
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A Raisin in the Sun
Overview: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-25
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Finn's Girl
Overview: Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-04
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Deliberate Intent
Overview: A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing blueprints for would-be murderers. Arguing that the publisher is not protected by the First Amendment, the crusading lawyers seek monetary damages for the victims' families.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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The Sentinel
Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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The Marsh King's Daughter
Overview: Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Chasing Freedom
Overview: Inspired by a true story, a self-centered corporate lawyer is forced to take on a pro-bono case to help a young Afghan woman seek refuge from the tyrannical regime of the Taliban. Together the two women take on a brutal legal system to win asylum.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-19
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Slumberland
Overview: A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Murder on Shadow Mountain
Overview: Denny Traynor has the idyllic life a loving wife and family, a flourishing career. Seems like life is perfect until some policemen from another break into their home one night and arrest him for a twenty year old murder. Initially, Denny denies the accusations made against him but when evidence is presented that implicates him, he is then extradited to stand trial. When his wife, whose faith has been shaken asks him what happened, he tells her that he did kill the man they said he killed but in self-defense. However, when there is no evidence that supports his claim, his wife wonders if he has told her the truth, and if she should continue to support him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-25
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Swindler Seduction
Overview: Louisa meets entrepreneur Steve at a bar. After 48 blissful hours, Steve disappears and Louisa realizes she's been cheated out of thousands of dollars. Louisa later learns she's pregnant and Steve has an identical twin, another romantic con artist.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-22
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Humane
Overview: In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra
Overview: Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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Mothers
Overview: Two women and a child seek refuge in an ATM vestibule when pursued by an angry man who wants money — money they don't have.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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They Come Back
Overview: A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who mysteriously disappeared. And the shrink worries that if she can't unravel the workings of the 10-year-old's psyche (and soon!), this little girl is destined for the same unknown fate.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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Unless
Overview: A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Dying in Plain Sight
Overview: The emotional story of overweight high school student Morgan Cruz and her mother Kim who both harbor dark secrets that lead to devastating circumstances.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-20
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True Blue
Overview: Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through one of her roommates, Nikki. Through Nikki and others, Macy learns of the victim's shady contacts at City Hall, the involvement of a gang of Asian drug runners, and the sordid affairs of one of the city's bigwigs. As Macy begins to understand how all these crimes fit together, he learns that his new friend Nikki is not an innocent bystander.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-29
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Spooky House
Overview: A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
Genres: Adventure Family Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Mary Goes Round
Overview: When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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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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Bloodwork
Overview: A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Like a House on Fire
Overview: Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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John Q
Overview: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Verona
Overview: In the wake of her grandfather's death, Camila finds herself questioning her spirituality and the role it plays in her life while her family struggles with reconciling his abusive past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Jingle Bell Love
Overview: Jack Cooper visits his late wife’s hometown for Christmas and gets more than he bargained for, when his determined daughter decides to match him up with a charming local shop owner.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-18
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