Camille Janclaire Mitchell (march 1st 1954, Santa Barbara CA) is an
American-Canadian actress
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,
writer
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and
director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
.
Born in
Los Angeles
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and raised in
Canada
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, she is the daughter of
Cameron Mitchell and trained at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver and at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
She studied documentary filmmaking at Capilano University and pursued her MFA at
Loyola Marymount University
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's School of TV and Film.
Her work onstage, including the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, has been critically acclaimed and she has won one of Canada's
Jessie Awards
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for her performance as Ariel in ''
The Tempest
''The Tempest'' is a Shakespeare's plays, play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, th ...
''.
A 2021 Leo Award Nominee for Supporting Lead in a Television Film for "Ships in the Night", she is perhaps best known on television for her role as Sheriff Nancy Adams on ''
Smallville
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'', for which she was nominated for a
Leo Award
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for Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series. For her recurring role on ABC's "Somewhere Between", she received a 2018 Leo Award nomination and she has been nominated for a 2019 Leo for Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for her performance in "Van Helsing: I Awake". As a writer/director, her short films, ''A Mother's Love'' and "By The Fountain" have earned several international accolades.
Season 3 Episode 3 of Van Helsing as the governors wife Agnes.
Partial filmography
References
External links
*
Camille Mitchell profile NorthernStars.ca; accessed February 17, 2018.
Living people
American people of Canadian descent
American television actresses
Canadian people of American descent
Canadian television actresses
Canadian women screenwriters
American women film directors
Film directors from Los Angeles
Film directors from British Columbia
Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Actresses from Los Angeles
Screenwriters from California
1954 births
21st-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
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