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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 13:48:54 GMT
wattsnew - By popular demand.  I'm thinking, overall, it has to be Kate Nelligan (Oscar, Emmy, and Tony nominee) - originated the Plenty role on the West End and Broadway that went to Streep in the '85 film. Sandra Oh is probably the "currently working" answer. My personal choice is certainly Sarah Polley. 
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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2019 13:55:47 GMT
I dunno but no one is remotely near the best male actor (Plummer) - take that ladies, let's hear it for the boys club/patriarchy!!!  Um. But back to the thread........ Bujold or Nelligan I guess. |
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2019 13:56:13 GMT
In terms of pure talent, Mia Kirshner.
In terms of career acclaim, Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer.
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Post by hugobolso on May 24, 2019 15:05:34 GMT
Marie-Josée Croze
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Post by TerryMontana on May 24, 2019 16:39:29 GMT
Mary Pickford I guess.
As for the currently working, I like Anna Paquin but I'm not sure she's a pure Canadian.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 24, 2019 23:58:12 GMT
Glad to see my franchise doing well. Should I start charging a license fee?   Yeah, Canada needs some work. When people really have to start going back to actresses who started their careers in silent films, you know things didn't really evolve as they should. Canada has produced some good actresses, but nothing near GOAT level. There's a huge potential talent (and Emmy Winner) in Tatiana Maslany, who has a technical range as good as someone like Meryl Streep (watch a couple of episodes of her BBC America show Orphan Black where she plays multiple characters as clones). But there's a sense that Maslany, though her talent is known within the industry, might slip through the cracks and not get the opportunities she needs to get to that GOAT kind of level, career wise. Nabbing an Oscar nod for supporting actress opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger might have been the career boost she needed. But it wasn't to be. Just like missing out on a Tony nod opposite Bryan Cranston in Network this season. The Emmy for Orphan Black might end up being her career peak, and I hope that is not the case. She has a lot more to offer. |
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Post by wattsnew on May 25, 2019 7:43:05 GMT
Catherine O'Hara  |
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Post by MsMovieStar on May 25, 2019 11:55:04 GMT
 Oh honey, maybe not the greatest actress but certainly one of the most famous ones... (AKA the original Lily in The Munsters) Oh and we mustn't forget that Ellen Page is a Canadian lesbian. |
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Post by MsMovieStar on May 25, 2019 15:14:10 GMT
Oh honey, maybe not the greatest actress but certainly one of the most famous ones... (AKA the original Lily in The Munsters) Oh and we mustn't forget that Ellen Page is a Canadian lesbian. I thought she came from France, her name though
Oh honey, it was a stage name for Marge Middleton...
We all have stage names, honey... they're useful if the cops are after you, I mean... as well as for tax purposes and money laundering... I mean... the trouble I'm having with the Swiss banking authorities in trying to prove that my real name IS... Imelda Marcos... We can't I just get access to my money... Don't get me started!
Maybe I should have saved all this for the 'Who is the Philippines' greatest actress?' thread.
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Post by wattsnew on May 26, 2019 2:33:11 GMT
Catherine O'Hara yikes what a scary face! it's her? It's from the film For Your Consideration, she plays an actress who was never famous but suddenly gets Oscar buzz for a film when she's middle aged, and towards the end of the film gets a makeover and tons of botox. I believe the plot is actually based on a certain member of this forum! |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 4:41:18 GMT
 Mary Pickford no doubt. She even has a bust outside of a hospital in Toronto that used to be her birthplace. Norma Shearer is runner up. But Pickford had a larger impact on Hollywood. Marie Dressler, also has her home as a museum in Cobourg, ON. Pickford, Dressler, and Shearer all won Best Actress Oscars almost consecutively. The first Hollywood "Movie Star" was Florence Lawrence, who was born in Hamilton.  |
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on May 26, 2019 8:55:17 GMT
Chuck Suzanne Clement's name in there.
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 26, 2019 11:40:56 GMT
The one whose family name is mentionned by MsMovieStar at the beginning for 99% of her posts. Mary Pickford is the most important tho. We talked about the lack of great, accomplished Canadian actresses but we tend to forget the talented ones from Quebec who do mostly (Canadian) French speaking films. Helene Loiselle (Les Ordres...), Marie-Josée Croze (Les invasions barbares...), Louise Portal (Sous-sol...), etc...
As an aside, not sure this new "acting" board was needed, we already create so few threads in each boards....the "movies" board was great to talk about these acting things imo, now it will looks even more tiny.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 26, 2019 13:38:05 GMT
As an aside, not sure this new "acting" board was needed, we already create so few threads in each boards....the "movies" board was great to talk about these acting things imo, now it will looks even more tiny. Have to agree with this. You don't really need a seperate board for "Acting" when the main "Movies" board and most of the boards in general aren't exactly overflowing with brand new threads. This has literally been the only new thread created since acting was given it's own board. I'd understand if the whole board was popping and things were overflowing, but it obviously ain't the case. Keeping acting topics in the movies board at least kept that board (where potential new members are most likely to visit to check out forum activity to see if they'll join) more consistently active. Now you have less threads on the movies board, and probably less threads on the acting board because people will think it's not very active (like several other boards). Ah well, above our paygrade I suppose. But not the choice I'd have made to keep growing this forum. |
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 26, 2019 17:44:10 GMT
But not the choice I'd have made to keep growing this forum. If you haven't noticed, this forum isn't really overflowing with new members every week. An organized acting board just makes the forum easier to navigate for the 100+ regulars that are on here every day. I personally don't find it easier to naviguate, quite the contrary actually, for something that is still strongly general movie's talk related, we have to go back on the home section then on the acting board just to read one or two last posts on an old thread. I visit (or used to) many movies forum and rarely an acting (not awards) board is detached from a general movie's one. But that's not really a big deal anyway, the most important thing is that by dividing boards like this in such a small forum, it makes each boards even less active and seeing a somehow lifeless board isn't very inviting (for a new or old member) to participate/open a new thread. The lack of activity can be cruel, I remember the downhill and total disinterest of people at the end of a (muuuch bigger) movie forum like joblo.com, it was harsh. Just expressing an opinion as a junior member |
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Post by pupdurcs on May 26, 2019 18:05:34 GMT
But not the choice I'd have made to keep growing this forum. If you haven't noticed, this forum isn't really overflowing with new members every week. An organized acting board just makes the forum easier to navigate for the 100+ regulars that are on here every day. Hey man, Rome wasn't built in a day... But I have to concur with fionasiob's last post that not only is it not easier to navigate, the boards seeming even less active will likely even turn off regulars from participating/starting new threads. |
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Post by bob-coppola on May 26, 2019 18:54:28 GMT
Just 'cause no one has mentioned 'em yet: Rachel McAdams and Ellen Page.
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Post by MsMovieStar on May 26, 2019 20:00:31 GMT
Don't really think many regulars care about how "dead" a specific board is. Pretty sure most of them use (or should be using) the "recent posts" or "recent threads" options which makes the board more similar to what we're used to from IMDb.
Oh Viced, honey, once we relax the rules on convicted sex offenders, the rest of my entourage will be able to join...
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