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Cara gee the expanse1/4/2024 It brought her a Best Actress nomination at the 2 nd Canadian Screen Awards for her portrayal of a single First Nations mother struggling to bridge an ever-growing generational gap from her mother to her daughter. Shortly afterwards, Cara Gee made her way onto the silver screen and into the international limelight as Lena in ‘Empire of Dirt’ (2013), an independent feature film directed by Peter Stebbings. Her TV break came with the role of Alicia Pratta in ‘King’ (2011-2012), the Canadian procedural created by Bernard Zukerman and Greg Spottiswood, followed by an appearance in ‘Republic of Doyle’ (2010-2014). Among her most memorable stage performances one will find Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’, a rewriting of ‘The Odyssey’ from Penelope’s perspective Daniel MacIvor’s ‘Arigato, Tokyo’, which follows a Canadian author on a publicity tour in Japan falling in love amidst the sacred stages of Noh theatre and the vibrant dance clubs and ‘The Rez Sisters’, a two-act play written by Cree Canadian writer Tomson Highway which blends the sometimes darker aspects of living on a First Nations reserve with humour and bits of Aboriginal spirituality. She got her start in theatre, building up a grand reputation on the Toronto scene. ©THE 39TH ANNUAL AMERICAN INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2014 While I do believe that North America can and should do infinitely better in terms of Indigenous representation, I am glad that Cara Gee has broken through and asserted herself as the exquisite artist that she is. By the end of season 5, I was irreversibly enthralled, having watched her grow and shine.īorn in Calgary, Alberta, Ms Gee is a proud Ojibwe and one of the few First Nations actors in the entire film and TV industry. Truth be told, I knew nothing about her before ‘The Expanse’ (2015), but once she came up in season 2, I was struck and intrigued. Which is why I’m so pleased to talk about Cara Gee. Few performances that I am tempted to go back to, over and over, and enjoy as much as I did the first time. There are few people on the screen that have had a lasting impact on my senses.
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