Allegra Fulton is a Canadian actress,

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"Allegra Fulton: Pondering how it all began"
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'', October 7, 2010. best known for ''Frida K'', a one-woman stage show in which she portrayed artist

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. The daughter of filmmaker David Fulton and writer

Gloria Montero Gloria Montero (born 1933) is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She co-directed with David Fulton the documentaries "Years of Struggle" (1975), "The Horsemen" (1977), "The Cry of the Gull" (1977), and "Crisis in the Rain" (1981). Montero was born ...

, she began her acting career in childhood with an appearance on the children's television series ''

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''. In the early 1980s she regularly performed in stage roles in Toronto, including productions of ''Slow Dance on the Killing Ground'', ''Michi's Blood'', and ''South of Heaven''. In 1991 she received a

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nomination for Outstanding Performance, Small Theatre for her performance in ''Nocturnal Emissions'' at

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. In the 1990s she began appearing in film and television roles, most notably the

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-winning short film ''

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'' opposite

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, whom she subsequently married. ''Frida K'', written by Montero, was first staged at the 1994

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, before being remounted by

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in 1995. In 1996 she won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Play, Small Theatre, before taking the play on an extended national and international tour. She returned to Toronto in 1998 in the English-language premiere of

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's ''Marcel Pursued by the Hounds'' for Tarragon. She has continued to act in stage, film, television and animated voice roles. She received a

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nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role Dramatic Series at the

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in 2001 for a guest appearance on '' Blue Murder'', and received her third Dora nomination in 2020 for ''Between Riverside and Crazy''.

Filmography

Film

Television

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