Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist.[1]
Liisa Repo-Martell | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1971 (age 53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Known for | Gemini award winner |
Repo-Martell's parents, Satu Repo and George Martell, were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as This Magazine.[2]
Repo-Martell grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. She received a Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street.[1] She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.[3]
She portrayed Mrs. Genest, the estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), in the 2006 made-for-TV-movie Jesse Stone: Night Passage.[4] In February 2012, the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband; actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple".[5] Repo-Mertell portrayed Sir Reginald Hargreeves' wife Abigail in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).
Filmography
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edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Cocktail | Young girl in deli | |
| 1989 | American Boyfriends | Julie La Belle | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Faith | |
| 1996 | Can I Get a Witness? | Sam | Short film |
| The English Patient | Jan | ||
| 2000 | Washed Up | Brains | |
| Infidelity | Maid | Short film | |
| Hold-Up | Woman | ||
| 2003 | Bastards | Finnie | |
| 2004 | Touch of Pink | Delia | |
| 2007 | Diamonds in a Bucket | Vivian | Short film |
| Lars and the Real Girl | Laurel | ||
| 2015 | King Lear | Regan | |
| 2016 | Lavender | Jennifer | |
| 2020 | Flashback | Mrs. Fitzell | |
| Happy Place | Nina |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Street Legal | Kate Quinlan | "Soul Custody" |
| 1992 | The Good Fight | Sandra | TV film |
| 1993 | E.N.G. | Terry | "The Big Sleepover" |
| Class of '96 | Miranda | "The Adventures of Pat's Man and Robin" | |
| Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Patty | "The Lacquered Box" | |
| 1994 | TekWar: TekLab | Galahad | TV film |
| Lives of Girls and Women | Naomi | ||
| 1995 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Trish | "May I Walk with You" |
| 1996 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Billy Jean | "Partners" |
| Hidden in America | Angela | TV film | |
| Critical Choices | Amy | ||
| 1997 | Once a Thief | Nikki | "Rave On" |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Kristie Schuermann | TV film |
| Nights Below Station Street | Adele Walsh | ||
| 1998–1999 | Emily of New Moon | Maida Flynn | "Falling Angels" & "The Return of Maida Flynn" |
| 1999 | Earth: Final Conflict | Amanda Hayes | "Volunteers" |
| Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Jenny Turner | "Body and Soul" | |
| 2000 | Strong Medicine | Jessie | "Pilot" |
| 2002 | Scared Silent | Carole Bakelin | TV film |
| 2003 | Missing | Stacy Drake | "Thin Air" |
| 2005–2006 | This Is Wonderland | Sandy Fisher | Recurring role |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Carole Genest | TV film |
| Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | |||
| Puppets Who Kill | Lottie | "Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation" | |
| 2007 | Trapped! | First Officer Maiju Saari | "Ocean Emergency" |
| 2008 | ReGenesis | Marie Gervais | "The Kiss" |
| 2009 | Diverted | Eileen Northbrook | TV film |
| The Listener | Rebecca Cahill | "My Sister's Keeper" | |
| 2010 | Republic of Doyle | Shannie Malone | "The Fall of the Republic" |
| Flashpoint | Claire Williams | "Acceptable Risk" | |
| 2011, 2020 | Murdoch Mysteries | Lydia Howland/Bridget Mulcahy | "Dead End Street"/"Rigid Silence" |
| 2011 | Committed | Donneymeade | TV film |
| 2012 | King | Dot Fuller | "Freddy Boise" |
| 2013 | Cracked | Angie Coturno | "Spirited Away" |
| 2014 | Remedy | Cynthia | "Homecoming" |
| 2016 | Saving Hope | Tracy | "Not Fade Away" |
| 2019, 2022–2024 | The Umbrella Academy | Abigail Hargreeves | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Anne with an E | Mrs. Rose | "The Summit of My Desires" and "Great and Sudden Change" |
References
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"Actress comfortable in Chekhov's shorts". Toronto Star. 1999-11-11. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
A Gemini Award winner last year for her starring role in CBC-TV's Nights Below Station Street, her stage credits include an achingly fragile turn in The Glass Menagerie at London's Grand Theatre and a feisty role in Go Chicken Go's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.
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Glenn Sumi (2001-08-30). "Liisa Repo-Martell: She's poured her soul into Soulpepper's classics, but is the city's most serious actor having a good time?". Now. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
Perhaps her commitment comes from her parents, political activists and academics who co-founded This Magazine (then called This Magazine is About Schools). "It was almost a religious upbringing," says Repo-Martell. "They had this sense of justice, of utopia. They were passionate. It was inspiring".
- ^ "Company Theatre: Liisa Repo-Martell". Company Theatre.
- ^ credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie
- ^ "The One: Chris Abraham & Liisa Repo-Martell". National Post. 2012-02-11. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.