Emily Hampshire
Also Known As: Эмили Хэмпшир, エミリー・ハンプシャー, امیلی همپشر
Biography: Emily Hampshire (born August 29, 1981 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is most widely known to international audiences for her role as Angelina to Sean Astin's Michael in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl, and Vivienne in the 2006 film Snow Cake, in which she starred opposite Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. Having been professionally active in the Canadian film and TV industry since 1996, Hampshire is also notable for her role as Siobhan Roy on Made in Canada. More recently, she has starred in the Canadian series This Space For Rent, Carl² and Northern Town. She also starred alongside Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong in the 2006 romantic comedy It's a Boy/Girl Thing, in which she played the character Chanel. She played Margaret in The Life Before This, a feature film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. She also voiced Starr/Nebula on the Animated Canadian sitcom 6Teen. Most recently, she appeared in The Trotsky as Leon's love interest Alexandra and in the Canadian Indie film, Good Neighbours as Louise. Hampshire has also done voice-acting, voicing the character Misery on the animated series Ruby Gloom, Diana Barry in "Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series" and Alyson Malitski in Braceface. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Hampshire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Birthday: August 29, 1981
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Female
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Snow Cake
Overview: A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Appendage
Overview: After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-11
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The Mattachine Family
Overview: While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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It's a Boy Girl Thing
Overview: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Good Neighbours
Overview: Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or her own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three neighbors spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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The Cradle
Overview: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-31
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The Trotsky
Overview: Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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Cosmopolis
Overview: Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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The End of Sex
Overview: A young couple, feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, sends their kids to camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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Die
Overview: Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-06
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Happy Face Murders
Overview: An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-05
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Blood
Overview: After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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My Awkward Sexual Adventure
Overview: A hyper-repressed and schlubby accountant (Jonas Chernick) strikes a deal with a worldly but disorganized stripper (Emily Hampshire): he'll help her with her crushing debt if she helps him become a better lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-11
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Hitched for the Holidays
Overview: A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-25
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Holder's Comma
Overview: Holder's Comma explores the fragility of a young woman questioning her identity and purpose in a slightly surrealist, romantic and poetic universe where what seems to be in harmony never really is, and ultimately falls apart.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-12
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Laurence Anyways
Overview: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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Scorn
Overview: Darren Huenemann, a spoiled 18-year old plots to have two classmates murder his mother and grandmother so he can inherit their fortunes. His worship of Caligula leads him to treat all like those in the Roman Imperial Court, manipulating, threatening and cajoling those who would stand in his way. Based on a true story of the early Nineties in British Columbia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-20
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Secret Blackheart
Overview: Secret Blackheart is a darkly funny short film about a young woman devastated by a bad break-up, who manages to pull out of her depression after a bizarre encounter brought on by her best friend's obsession with the self-help phenomenon 'The Secret'.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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All the Wrong Reasons
Overview: An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Fitting In
Overview: A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-02
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The Returned
Overview: In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Every 9 Seconds
Overview: Domestic violence drama, with Gail O'Grady as a distraught young mother, finding herself stalked by her newly paroled ex and armed with a loaded gun, and Ami Pietz as a journalist volunteering at a crisis hotline to do an "inside" story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Dead Innocent
Overview: Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-08
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Chasing Cain
Overview: A brutal drive-by shooting of a Croatian woman who works at an abortion clinic sends two homicide detectives out onto the streets of one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. Their first suspect has ties to the pro-life movement. But a sudden turn of events, a fresh trail of clues and a suicide attempt by the victim's Serbian husband lead the detectives into the impenetrable world of Balkan politics and prejudices. As they hunt for the killer, they uncover an ethnic war between Croatians and Serbians amid the urban backdrop of downtown Toronto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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The Life Before This
Overview: Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Overview: The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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That Burning Feeling
Overview: Venereal disease forces a confirmed bachelor to take stock of his history of one night stands.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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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: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Posers
Overview: Four Hardcore party posers are suddenly facing an unknown killer when one of them disappears.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Borealis
Overview: Jonah, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teen-aged daughter Aurora on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights – before her vision disorder renders her completely blind.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-05
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Squish
Overview: When chronically anxious Allie becomes obsessed with living a thought-free life just like a plush squishy kid's toy, she discovers erasing her brain is a lot harder than she thought.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Self Reliance
Overview: When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-03
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Overview: A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-13
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A Problem with Fear
Overview: A young man in Calgary, Alberta is multiphobic: nonetheless, he believes that he is the cause of the fear which is killing people around him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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mother!
Overview: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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The Good Escape
Overview: Famous 30s gangster John Dillinger will be dead in 5 minutes. Where does America's Most Wanted decide to go the night he dies? To see Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama. An unusual move for the savvy bank robber... unless, of course, that's how he wanted it to go.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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In Shadow
Overview: A young up-and-coming artist works hard to build a future for herself while a shadow from her past threatens to push her into madness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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Citizens of Cosmopolis
Overview: An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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Apples and Oranges
Overview: Apples and Oranges is designed to raise children's awareness of the harmful effects of homophobia and gender-related name calling, intolerance, stereotyping and bullying. In the course of a lively in-class discussion among elementary students and an equity educator, children's paintings magically dissolve into two short animated stories. In Anta's Revenge, Anta finds out that creativity--not revenge--is the best way to deal with a school bully who makes fun of her for having two moms. Defying Gravity tells the story of Habib and Jeroux, two skateboarding friends whose relationship comes to a screeching halt when one of them finds out the other is gay.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with. Angelina settles into a neighborhood in Toronto's Little Italy longing for true love. Mike is a jaded and cynical copywriter for romance novels but has lost his faith in romantic love. In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, an enigmatic and amorous couple named Il Magnifico and Mrs. Jones set the whole neighborhood ablaze with romantic passion. While everyone seems to be falling under the spell of Cupid's arrows, Angelina and Mike meet and just might find the true love that they've been searching for.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell
Overview: Interviews with the cast, creators, journalists and celebrity fans, plus behind-the-scenes footage from season six.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-07
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Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Overview: Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope and inspiration in this national salute to our frontline workers and in support of Food Banks Canada’s COVID-19 relief efforts.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-26
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Never Saw It Coming
Overview: Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that’s what she passes herself off as. Her real powers have more to do with separating troubled families from their money than actually seeing into the netherworld. When Keisha targets the family of the missing Ellie Garfield she becomes entangled in the dark secrets of Ellis’s husband Wendell Garfield and his daughter Melissa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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Love Letters
Overview: An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kept in contact with only through correspondence.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-12
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Mom
Overview: Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-07
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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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Twist
Overview: In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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