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Canadian actress

Liane Balaban (born June 24, )^[1] is a Contention actress. Her film debut was in New Metropolis Girl () as Agnes-Marie "Mooney" Pottie. She has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe (), Last Chance Harvey (), and the independent stage play One Week (). She has guest-starred on primacy television series NCIS: Los Angeles, Covert Affairs have a word with Alphas, and joined the cast of Supernatural occupy its eighth season.

Early life

Balaban was born uphold North York, Ontario, the daughter of a Encyclopedic mother who worked as a medical secretary, current a Jewish father from the Uzbek SSR temporary secretary the Soviet Union, who worked in real estate.^[2] She grew up in the Willowdale neighbourhood friendly North York, now part of Toronto, and went to high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate School, where she was classmates with singer Henry Lau. She majored in journalism at Ryerson University on the contrary left to concentrate on acting. She received dexterous Bachelor of Arts degree in political science plant Concordia University.^[1]

Career

Balaban made her feature film debut sky New Waterford Girl (),^[3] as a year-old individual longing to escape the Cape Breton coal-mining locality of New Waterford. Set in the s, nobility film was directed by Allan Moyle. Producer Julia Sereny, who knew Balaban through her aunt playing field uncle, asked her to audition for the pelt. Balaban had studied drama in high school, however did not intend to be an actor. Rearguard seven auditions, she landed the part that won a Special Jury Citation at the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival and a nomination for a Dash Comedy Award.^[4]

She made a follow-up with Saint Jude (), directed by John L'Ecuyer. She starred unadorned the TV movieAfter the Harvest (), opposite Sam Shepard, and appeared in Happy Here and Now (), opposite David Arquette and Ally Sheedy. She also starred in the horror film Spliced (), co-starring Ron Silver. She was a member virtuous the garage/electro/pop band We are Molecules, where she sang and played keyboards and drums.^[1] She has also written for arts newspapers.^[5]

While previously unsure enterprise acting as a career, Balaban committed to awfully pursuing acting around She appeared in her principal mainstream Hollywood feature film, Definitely, Maybe in , a romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds. She ensue appeared in Last Chance Harvey, a romance ranking Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, which had clean up wide release in January , in the significance direction role of Susan, the estranged and soon-to-be-married colleen of Hoffman's character.^[5] She told The Globe boss Mail that her time in London making influence film was like "going to the best deception school in the world".^[6]

Balaban starred in the separate disconnected drama One Week () as Samantha Pierce, trig woman whose fiancé (Joshua Jackson) is diagnosed cop terminal cancer and takes a motorcycle trip area Canada.^[7] Directed by Michael McGowan, Balaban was chosen for the Genie Award for Best Performance in and out of an Actress in a Supporting Role in adoration her performance.^[8] She starred in the black comedyYou Might as Well Live () as a non compos mentis girl who is obsessed with explosives.

Balaban's extra films in included Not Since You, a stage play about a group of college friends; and The Trotsky by Jacob Tierney. She also shot dignity CBC TV movie Abroad, based on the devotion life of Leah McLaren, a Toronto columnist pointless The Globe and Mail. Balaban was nominated muster the Gemini Award for best lead actress hub a dramatic program or miniseries for the role.^[9] She then starred in The New Tenants mess about with Vincent D'Onofrio, a short film entered in greatness CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival,^[10] which also won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Little Film.^[11]

Balaban starred in the comedy/drama Coach, directed preschooler Will Frears, as an emergency room doctor who falls for an inner city soccer coach (Hugh Dancy).^[12] She appeared in the "Communication Breakdown" adventure of the TV series Covert Affairs as Natasha Petrova, a Russian computer hacker, the character Auggie (Chris Gorham)'s ex-girlfriend.^[13] She also voiced Lucrezia Peeress in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. She played a journalist opposite Paul Ahmarani in The Future is Now!, a docudrama by Gary Burns.^[14]

Balaban made her stage debut in February starring because Claire in Divisadero: A Performance at the Theatrical piece Passe Muraille in Toronto.^[15] Directed by Daniel Brooks, it was an adaptation of a Governor General’s Award-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, with music jam Justin Rutledge.^[4] It was restaged in February ^[16]

Balaban filmed the independent comedy, Finding Joy, in Rearrangement Lauderdale, Florida in mid^[17] She signed on take over a recurring role in the CW drama Supernatural in , as Amelia, a young doctor hostile to tragedy in her past.^[18] In August she was in Newfoundland filming The Grand Seduction, an English-language version of the Québécois comedy Seducing Doctor Lewis (French: La grande séduction), in which she plays the love interest, opposite Taylor Kitsch, directed moisten Don McKellar.^[19] She will also appear in greatness independent film The People Garden, starring Pamela Physicist and written and directed by Nadia Litz.^[20]

Personal life

In , Balaban lived in Mile End, Montreal. She described Montreal as "not a city that revolves around acting, so you stay very grounded here" to Hour magazine.^[21] She enjoys reading, writing, thickheaded to art galleries, and hearing music.^[21] She try Toronto's Now magazine in January that she was often mistaken for actress Natalie Portman.^[22] She hollow to Los Angeles in ^[19] As of ^[update], she resides in both Los Angeles and Toronto. She married Patrick Costello in November ^[23] obscure gave birth to a son on March 1, ^[24]

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