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Allan Hawco
Allan Hawco is a Canadian writer, actor, and producer from Bell Island, Newfoundland. He is best known for his roles in the series ''Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan'', ''Republic of Doyle'', and '' The Book of Negroes'', and the television limited series ''Caught''. Early and personal life Hawco was born on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, as the youngest of four children and moved to Goulds at a young age. His father Michael worked on the Bell Island Ferry, and his mother Mary was an elementary school teacher and former nun."Allan Hawco says goodbye to Jake Doyle". '' Q'', December 10, 2014. He studied business at Memorial University of Newfoundland but dropped out in favour of the National Theatre School of Canada. One of his brothers is a composer, and has composed for ''Republic of Doyle'', while his father has also worked on the show and his mother has appeared as a background performer. Hawco is the youngest of four; he has two older sisters. Hawco married CBC anchor Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Island (Newfoundland And Labrador)
Bell Island is an island that is part of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Canada's easternmost province. With an area of , it is by far the largest island in Conception Bay, a large bay in the southeast of the island of Newfoundland. The provincial capital of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's is less than to the east. The coastline of Bell Island consists almost entirely of cliffs that tower up to above the surf and also has several special rock formations. The island is home to four Human settlement, settlements with a total of over 2,000 inhabitants. The vast majority of them live in the main settlement of Wabana, Newfoundland and Labrador, Wabana, which can be reached from Newfoundland via a ferry connection to Portugal Cove. To the south are the hamlets of Lance Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Lance Cove, Bickfordville and Freshwater, Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Freshwater. From 1895 to 1966, large-scale iron ore mining took place on Bell Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Savagery
''Love and Savagery'' is a Canadian- Irish drama film directed by John N. Smith and released in 2009. The film stars Allan Hawco as Michael, a geologist from Newfoundland and Labrador who travels to Ballyvaughan, Ireland to study limestone, and causes a scandal when he enters a romantic relationship with Cathleen ( Sarah Greene), an orphan girl from the village who is about to enter the convent as a Roman Catholic nun. The film's cast also includes Martha Burns, Nicholas Campbell, Andy Jones, Louise Nicol, Mack Furlong and Sean Panting. Awards The film garnered four Genie Award nominations at the 30th Genie Awards in 2010: * Best Supporting Actress: Martha Burns * Best Overall Sound: Claude Hazanavicius, Daniel Bisson, Jean-Charles Desjardins and Bernard Gariépy Strobl * Best Original Score: Bertrand Chénier *Best Make-Up: Diane Simard and Réjean Goderre Burns won the award for Best Supporting Actress. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Maggs
Adriana Maggs is a Canadians, Canadian film and television actress, writer and director, best known for her debut feature film ''Grown Up Movie Star''."She knows no boundaries" ''The Globe and Mail'', January 24, 2010. The daughter of academic and poet Randall Maggs, she is originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. She was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland's Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell College campus in Corner Brook, where she was a classmate of Sherry White, Susan Kent (actress), Susan Kent and Jonny Harris. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Cohan
Julia may refer to: People *Julia (given name), including a list of people with the name *Julia (surname), including a list of people with the name *Julia gens, a patrician family of Ancient Rome *Julia (clairvoyant) (fl. 1689), lady's maid of Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome, alleged clairvoyant and predictor Science and technology *Julia (programming language), a computer language with features suited for numerical analysis and computational science *Julia (unidentified sound), an underwater sound record by the NOAA *Julia (gastropod), a genus of minute bivalved gastropods in the family Juliidae *Julia butterfly, ''Dryas iulia'', misspelled as ''Dryas julia'' Television * ''Julia'' (1968 TV series), a 1968–1971 American series starring Diahann Carroll * ''Julia'' (2022 TV series), an American drama series * ''Julia'' (Mexican TV series), a 1979 Mexican telenovela * ''Julia'' (Polish TV series), a 2012 Polish soap opera * ''Julia'' (Venezuelan TV series), a 1983 Venezuelan TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Krizanc
John Krizanc (born 1956) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright who established an international reputation with his non-linear work ''Tamara (play), Tamara''. Early life Krizanc was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Lethbridge, Alberta in 1956. He is the son of Peggy and Rene Krizanc. Career Tamara (play), ''Tamara'' premiered at Strachan House in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada on May 8, 1981, and was published as a book the same year. Exploring the rise of Fascism in 1920s Italy, the play was one of the first non-linear, immersive theatre experiences. The audience followed different characters through an Italian villa, with several scenes playing simultaneously. Several real people are fictionalized in the work, including Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka; Italian war hero, journalist, and poet General Gabriele_D%27Annunzio , Gabriele D’Annunzio; and Aélis Mazoyer, the mistress and housekeeper of D'Annunzio. ''The New York Times'' called it "a shot of adrenaline for sedent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Books
CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', ''Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', ''Exhibitionists (TV series), Exhibitionists'', ''The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show (''The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries (''Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Momoa
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (; born August 1, 1979) is an American actor. He made his acting debut as Jason Ioane on the syndicated action drama series '' Baywatch: Hawaii'' (1999–2001), which was followed by portrayals of Ronon Dex on the Syfy science fiction series ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2005–2009), and Khal Drogo in the first two seasons of the HBO fantasy drama series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2012). He went on to play the lead roles in the Discovery Channel historical drama series ''Frontier'' (2016–2018) and the Apple TV+ science fiction series '' See'' (2019–2022). Since 2016, Momoa has appeared in various DC Comics media, first portraying Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe (2016–2023). He has also played Duncan Idaho in the science fiction film ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'' (2021), and has starred in the action film ''Fast X'' (2023) and the fantasy adventure comedy film ''A Minecraft Movie'' (2025). Early life An only child, Momoa was born on August 1, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier (2016 TV Series)
''Frontier'' is a Canadian historical drama television series co-created by Rob Blackie and Peter Blackie, chronicling the North American fur trade in colonial Canada/Rupert's Land, sometime in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The series is co-produced by Discovery Canada, as the channel's first original scripted commission, and Netflix. The series premiered on November 6, 2016. The series was renewed for a second season in October 2016, ahead of its premiere, which premiered on October 18, 2017. ''Frontier'' was renewed for a third season on September 20, 2017, also ahead of the previous second season. The entirety of the third season premiered first on Netflix on November 23, 2018, and was broadcast in Canada between December 7 and 21, 2018. Synopsis The series chronicles the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada, and follows Declan Harp (Jason Momoa), a half-Irish, half-Cree outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Film And Television Hall Of Fame
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascon-Thomas Award
The Gascon-Thomas Award is a Canadian theatre award created in 1990. It is awarded by the National Theatre School of Canada to two artists, one English-speaking and one French-speaking, and is named after two of the school's founders, Jean Gascon and Powys Thomas Powys Thomas (25 December 1925 – 22 June 1977) was a British-born actor who played an important role in the development of theatre in Canada. History He was born in Wales in December 1925. His early education was at Rendcomb College, Cirenc .... The award was designed by Montreal artist Annie Michaud. Award winners References Canadian theatre awards Awards established in 1990 1990 establishments in Canada National Theatre School of Canada {{Canada-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Theatre School
The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS, ) is a private institution of professional theatre studies in Montreal, Quebec. Established in 1960, the NTS receives its principal funding from grants awarded by the Government of Canada and cultural ministries in each province, with added financial support from private and corporate donors. It offers training to actors, directors, playwrights, set and costume designers and production specialists to work in the professional theatre industry. Buildings and features The National Theatre School occupies a historic landmark in Montreal, the Monument-National on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, and a building in Le Plateau district at the corner of Rue Saint-Denis and Avenue Laurier. Monument-National The campus of the National Theatre School stretches all the way to the Monument-National in the core of downtown Montreal. This hundred-year-old theatre, owned and operated by the NTS, has been classified as a heritage building. Recentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
