Maria del Mar
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Biography: Maria del Mar del Castillo (who works as an actress under the name Maria del Mar) is a Canadian television actress, who has starred in series such as Street Legal, Tek War, Relativity, Mercy Point, Terminal City and Blue Murder. She was born in Madrid, Spain in 1964, and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She is sometimes mistakenly credited with having been the lead singer of the 1980s Canadian goth rock band National Velvet, which was in fact fronted by a different Maria del Mar. Her performance in A Touch of Grey (2009) earned her a Canadian Comedy Award in the 13th ceremony for the best female performance in a feature and nominated in 2001 to Gemini Award in the 16th edition for best performance by an actress in a continuing leading dramatic role for Blue Murder. Maria is the 2024 recipient of the ACTRA Award of Excellence, voted by her peers for her years of volunteerism with the union. She’s a two-term ACTRA Toronto Councillor, a former chair of the ACTRA Awards Committee and an alternate at the National Council table.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
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Birthday: June 01, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Female
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Jekyll + Hyde
Overview: Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality-enhancing drug that he believes will turn him into the successful and popular person he so craves to be. But after testing the drug on Mary and himself, Jekyll discovers it has horrific consequences - ones that he might not be able to control.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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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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The Christmas Shoes
Overview: Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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An Ice Wine Christmas
Overview: A big-city sommelier, Camila returns to her hometown and family-run business for the annual ice wine harvest that coincides with the holidays. But the visit is upended when the owner of the vineyard—her beloved godfather—announces they’ve hired a consultant named Declan Monroe to oversee the switch from old world methods to modern technology.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Engaged to Kill
Overview: Abby Lord (Maria del Mar) is kidnapped and her husband Robert Lord (Joe Lando) has to pay off a million dollar ransom. Based on a True Life story.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-24
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Price of Glory
Overview: An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches with dad constantly pushing them. Ten years later, they're young men, with dad as both father and manager. A professional promoter, Nick Everson, wants to sign the boys, but dad rejects those offers. Then, in expressions of their varied relationships with their father, each son makes his own decisions. Can dad ever step aside, and can the family hold together?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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RoboCop: Prime Directives
Overview: Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly obsolete, and must deal with the fact that his now-grown son James is an OCP executive, unaware that his father is still alive. Also, Murphy's former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine, unaware that they are coming dangerously close to exposing an evil group of OCP executives known as The Trust... which James Murphy is a part of. Desperate to prevent their sinister plans from being revealed, The Trust programs Murphy to kill John Cable...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-04
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Moonshine Highway
Overview: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-05
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Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead
Overview: An ordinary man's life takes an extraordinary turn for the worst after he finds himself caught in the tangled web of a manipulative mass murderer.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Cold Sweat
Overview: Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a blonde, who keeps appearing in his bedroom at the worst of times. His life becomes even more complicated when he becomes caught up in the schemes of two business partners, one of the partner's spouse and her boyfriend(s).
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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A Touch of Grey
Overview: Barb has the perfect life, or so she's been told. Somewhere down the road, she's gained a husband, kids and a career, but lost her freedom and passion for life. In an attempt to recapture the innocence of her carefree days, Barb calls her high school pals Patti, Karen and Liz together for a weekend reunion. Loosening up with a few bottles of wine, each shares their secrets and dreams. But they soon discover that they share much more - burden, responsibility and a deep dissatisfaction for where their decisions have taken them. The best friends reach out to one another for collective wisdom and guidance. But, is it enough to save these four friends and set them back on their chosen paths? A Touch of Grey is a bittersweet comedy. A poignant, soul-searching journey that explores the question, can we have it all and still be truly happy?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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For the Love of a Child
Overview: 1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary centers for abused and/or neglected children in the States. Among them is bright Jacob Fletcher, whose stepfather, a lawyer, terrorized him into utter trauma and reclaims him shortly after 10 months in jail. Jacob's peers have distressing stories of their own, but competent, devoted staff helps most of them decisively on the former farm, using animal therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-09
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Eclipse
Overview: A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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The Devil's Mile
Overview: A relentlessly-paced hybrid of gritty crime thriller and Lovecraftian supernatural horror, "The Devil's Mile" follows a trio of kidnappers who take an ill-advised detour en route to deliver their hostages - two teenage girls - to their mysterious and powerful employer. When they accidentally kill one of the girls during a botched escape attempt, their simmering mistrust explodes into shocking violence. But what they thought was their worst case scenario is only the beginning, as they are engulfed by the hellish forces that haunt the road - a road they realize they may never escape. Now captors and captive must fight together to escape the monstrous forces pursuing them and somehow survive ...
Genres: Action Crime Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Holidaze
Overview: Melody, high powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate, is happy to spend the holidays jet-setting with her girlfriends. However, she's in for an unpleasant surprise when her boss sends her to her sleepy hometown to convince the reluctant townspeople to allow them to build a new discount store. Now, forced to reconnect with her family and her childhood sweetheart Carter, her task is not so simple, as all are vehemently opposed to everything Melody's company stands for. Desperate to get out of town and back to her real life, Melody takes a spill and wakes up in an alternate universe where she never left home and is married to Carter! Once determined to leave her small town life behind, Melody must make sense of her new life and decide if you truly can go home again. - Written by ABC
Genres: Romance Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-22
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Unlikely Angel
Overview: A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-17
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Robocop: Meltdown
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Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-11
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No Deposit
Overview: Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly to resolve his issues but hooks up with the wrong people who blind him with anger and hate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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El Contrato
Overview: This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-18
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The Pentagon Papers
Overview: This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-09
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Diary of a Sex Addict
Overview: A restaurant owner leads a double life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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The Red Maple Leaf
Overview: A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Montreal Stories
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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Looking Is the Original Sin
Overview: An artist's daughter comes to terms with her mother's rough life and the connection they share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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The Child Saver
Overview: Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-18
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