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Elyse Levesque
Elyse Marie Levesque ( ; born September 10, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Chloe Armstrong in the Syfy original series ''Stargate Universe'' and the witch Genevieve in the CW series '' The Originals''. Early life Levesque was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Career Elyse Levesque began acting at age 11, when she became part of a repertory company of young actors for the acclaimed children's television series ''The Incredible Story Studio''. In addition, she did commercial work, and went on to do a two-year stint playing the villainous Maxine Rich on the futuristic children's series '' 2030 CE''. Following high school, Levesque travelled around the world for two years as a model working in Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Spain, and France before returning to Canada to study fine arts. In 2006, Levesque moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to focus on a full-time acting career. She immediately enrolled in acting classes, and began to land parts i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina ( ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census, Regina had a List of cities in Saskatchewan, city population of 226,404, and a List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, metropolitan area population of 249,217. It is governed by Regina City Council. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159. Regina was History of Northwest Territories capital cities, previously the seat of government of the Northwest Territories, North-West Territories, of which the current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta originally formed part, and of the District of Assiniboia. The site was previously called Wascana (from "Buffalo Bones"), but was renamed to ''Regina'' (Latin for "Queen") in 1882 in honour of Queen Victoria. The name was proposed by Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men In Trees
''Men in Trees'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series starring Anne Heche as relationship coach Marin Frist, which premiered on September 12, 2006, on ABC. The series is set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska, and concerns Marin Frist's misadventures in relationships. The premise showed at least superficial similarities to the HBO television series ''Sex and the City'' (on which series creator Jenny Bicks was a co-executive producer), which also featured a romantically oriented female writer. The protagonist's apparent "fish-out-of-water" feeling in a remote, small Alaskan town can be likened to CBS's ''Northern Exposure''. The protagonists in both series were New Yorkers thrust into small town Alaskan societies. Filming for the series was based in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Five episodes of the first production season, which had not yet been shown on ABC, debuted in New Zealand on the TV2 network in June and July 2007. The five carryover episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Cove (TV Series)
''Cedar Cove'' is a drama television series on the Hallmark Channel that aired from July 20, 2013 to September 26, 2015. Based on author Debbie Macomber's book series of the same name, ''Cedar Cove'' focused on Municipal Court Judge Olivia Lockhart's professional and personal life and the townsfolk surrounding her. It was the network's first original scripted series, and lasted three seasons. Plot Cedar Cove is a quaint, picturesque town on an island in the Puget Sound. Neighbors for the most part try to help each other, and people do not lock their doors in their trust in the community. The moral center and compass of the town is Olivia Lockhart, the bicycle-riding, scarf-wearing municipal court judge who grew up in the town. Regardless of her being the focus for many in town, Olivia's life has not been issue-free, she long ago had gone through a divorce from her physician husband; the dissolution of their marriage largely was due to the accidental drowning death of their so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Stargate Universe Characters
This is a list of characters in ''Stargate Universe'', an American-Canadian military science fiction serial drama which made its premiere on October 2, 2009, on the Syfy channel. Main characters Nicholas Rush Nicholas Rush (portrayed by Robert Carlyle) is an expert in Ancient technology. His research was hindered while he was married to Gloria Rush (Louise Lombard). Since her death, he has become more dedicated to science. He spearheads the Icarus Project, his main priority being to explore the mystery behind the ninth chevron of the Stargate. Rush was stationed at the Icarus Base in 2009, in order to do research on the ninth chevron. During an attack on the base, Rush and Eli Wallace figure out how to dial the ninth chevron, and are responsible for sending the remaining Icarus personnel to an Ancient ship known as the ''Destiny'', a spaceship situated in a far-away galaxy, with no way of returning to Earth. Rush is greatly obsessed with completing Destiny's mission and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008 TV Film)
''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is a 2008 American-Canadian television action adventure film directed by T. J. Scott and starring Rick Schroder, Victoria Pratt, and Peter Fonda. The film is very loosely based on the 1864 novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in HD on location in and around Vancouver in the summer of 2007, and first aired on Ion Television on January 27, 2008. It was released on DVD in 2008, prior to the release of the theatrical film. Plot Scientist, and part-time prizefighter, Jonathan Brock is visited at his home by heiress Martha Dennison. Years earlier Jonathon had met Martha's husband, Edward, who had given him a fossil which came from a mine in a volcano in the then Russian territory of Alaska. Supposedly the mine leads to the center of the Earth, which Jonathon dismisses as a myth. Martha tells him Edward disappeared four years earlier on an expedition towards the center of the Earth, and she wants Jonathon to find him. Jonathan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Cat (Masters Of Horror)
"The Black Cat" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American anthology television series ''Masters of Horror''. Directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Gordon and Dennis Paoli, the episode stars Jeffrey Combs as writer Edgar Allan Poe, who becomes increasingly psychologically unstable as a series of setbacks and tragedies combine with his alcoholism and dark imagination. Though the plot is a generally faithful adaptation of Poe's 1843 short story '' The Black Cat'', it is also a metafictional narrative, setting Poe himself as the story's protagonist, blending fictionalized elements of his actual biography with details from the story and culminating in the writing of the story itself. Combs, Gordon and Paoli had already adapted a different Poe story in 1991's '' The Pit and the Pendulum'' and would return to the character of Poe in the same respective roles for the successful one-man stage show ''Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe'' which premiered at Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegadepress
''renegadepress.com'' is a Canadian teen drama television series, produced by Corner Gas, Vérité Films for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Plot The storyline follows the lives of a group of teenagers running an e-zine about their daily experiences. The main characters are Zoey (Ksenia Solo), an average upper middle-class girl who thinks of herself as a bit of a nerd, and Jack (Bronson Pelletier), a boy of First Nations in Canada, First Nations origin. The series deals with teenage topics, including relationships, sex and drugs. Every season, two to three new characters are introduced, who join in writing the e-zine. These characters are usually added to explore new areas of teen life and problems. The show is no longer in production, although reruns continue to air on APTN. In 2008, the Global Television Network also began airing the show's first season. TFO, the French language educational broadcaster in Ontario, has also aired a French dubbing (filmmaking), dubbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MythQuest
''MythQuest'' is a Canadian children's television series that originally aired on CBC in Canada and PBS in the United States in 2001. Produced by Minds Eye Pictures, the series was shot in Drumheller, Calgary, East Coulee, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan. The series is not currently available on DVD or video. However, there have been novels adapted from the first three episodes as well as "Minokichi," written by Dan Danko, Tom Mason, and John Whitman. Premise When their father vanishes without a trace, teenagers Cleo ( Meredith Henderson) and Alex Bellows ( Christopher Jacot) discover that when they touch artifacts on the screens of the Cyber Museum, a computer program created by their father, they are able to travel into myths Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incredible Story Studios
''Incredible Story Studios'' (formerly ''Incredible Story Studio'') is a Canadian television series which aired worldwide. The program would receive stories written by children and make a TV episode segment of the series based entirely on the written story, but only when they graded it "INCREDIBLE" (according to the show's opening sequence). The show featured two stories per episode and the beginning of each story briefly showed the author demonstrating their writing. The episode "Hitting Them" was the launching pad for Canadian kid group Six Degrees of Bacon. It included the song "No Tattoos" and an accompanying music video. The series was broadcast on Discovery Kids in the United States, and was also seen in Latin America as ''Mi guión en Discovery Kids'' (''My Script on Discovery Kids''). The show is no longer on air but its DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Corruption Of Divine Providence
''The Corruption of Divine Providence'' is a 2020 Canadian supernatural horror film, written, produced, and directed by Jeremy Torrie. Set in a small Métis community in Manitoba, the film centres on Jeanne Séraphin (Ali Skovbye), a teenage girl who becomes possessed in a spiritual battle between good and evil forces. The cast also includes David La Haye and Elyse Levesque as Jeanne's parents Louis and Danielle, Corey Sevier as a Christian televangelist who becomes involved in Jeanne's case, and Paul Amos as Saint Francis, as well as Tantoo Cardinal, Eugene Brave Rock, Sera-Lys McArthur and Angela Narth in supporting roles. The film premiered in October 2020 at the Reelworld Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Whistler Film Festival and the 2021 Canadian Film Festival,Liam Lacey"The Canadian Film Festival: Films by emerging Canadian filmmakers find a second-time-around pandemic home on Super Channel" ''Original Cin'', April 1, 2021. before being commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Ugly (film)
''The Big Ugly'' is a 2020 American crime action film directed by Scott Wiper, who wrote the screenplay with Paul Tarantino. The film story follows Malcolm McDowell as a London mob boss who sends a henchman Neelyn (Vinnie Jones) to West Virginia to set up a money laundering operation with an oilman (Ron Perlman). But Neelyn's girlfriend (Lenora Crichlow) disappears, and Neelyn is out for revenge. The film was released on July 24, 2020, and received mixed reviews from critics. Plot Harris is a London crime boss, with Neelyn as his main enforcer. They fly to West Virginia after Harris strikes a deal with an old and valued friend, an American oilman named Preston. Stakes are high with Preston genuinely concerned with keeping his operation environmentally clean. Contracts are signed and festivities are held. Preston’s son PJ is overconfident and behaves as though entitled to take a crack at any girl he sees. Late that night Neelyn's girlfriend of six years Fiona, disappears. Neelyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ready Or Not (2019 Film)
''Ready or Not'' is a 2019 American horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien (actor), Mark O'Brien, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny and Andie MacDowell. It follows a young bride who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy family as part of a wedding night ritual to worship the Devil. Preparations began in November 2017 when Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, members of the filmmaking collective Radio Silence (collective), Radio Silence, were hired as directors, with Busick and Murphy attached to write the screenplay. After setting an initial release date, casting occurred from August to October 2018. Principal photography began later that month and concluded in November, in locations in and around Toronto, Canada and the surrounding Ontario area. Brian Tyler was hired to compose and conduct the film's score, marking his first collaboration with Bettine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
