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Jess McLeod (born 25 January 1997) is a Canadian actor and writer who played Janae Mathews on both series of Netflix teen television drama ''One of Us Is Lying'' and Bernie Simon in the 2023 Christmas slasher film '' It's a Wonderful Knife''. Early and personal life McLeod is from Victoria, British Columbia. They attended Claremont Secondary School. At school they were a part of Claremont Musical Theatre and starred as Elle Woods in its production of the musical ''Legally Blonde''. McLeod is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. They are based in Vancouver. Career Mcleod started as a child actor, appearing in 2006 comedy ''Scary Movie 4'' as a schoolgirl reading ''My Pet Duck'' to Leslie Nielsen as the American president. Their later acting credits include roles in '' Eve of Destruction'', ''Shall We Play?'', and the ''Van Helsing'' TV series. They had a role in Canadian comedy drama series ''You Me Her''. In 2019, McLeod was cast in Peacock teen television drama ''One of Us I ...
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One Of Us Is Lying (TV Series)
''One of Us Is Lying'' is an American teen drama Mystery fiction, mystery television series developed by Erica Saleh. The series is based on the 2017 One of Us Is Lying, novel of the same name by Karen M. McManus and follows five high school students who enter detention, where one of them dies under suspicious circumstances and an investigation ensues. It stars Mark McKenna as Simon, the deceased student, and Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada, and Cooper van Grootel as the main suspects, with Barrett Carnahan, Jess McLeod, Jessica McLeod, and Melissa Collazo, Sara Thompson (Canadian actress), Sara Thompson and Alimi Ballard in supporting roles. The series premiered on Peacock (streaming service), Peacock on October 7, 2021, and was met with generally positive reviews from critics. In January 2022, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on October 20, 2022. In January 2023, the series was canceled after two seasons. Premise Season 1 At Bayvi ...
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Viola Davis
Viola Davis ( ; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. List of awards and nominations received by Viola Davis, Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. ''Time (magazine), Time'' named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. ''The New York Times'' ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard School, Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the August Wilson play ''Seven Guitars'' (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the character Tonya, a woman grapp ...
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Canadian Non-binary Actors
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, and ...
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Actors From Victoria, British Columbia
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval wor ...
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