Rebecca Jenkins

Rebecca Jenkins

geb. 1959
Innisfail, Alberta, Kanada

Biografie

Jenkins burst onto the Canadian film scene with her charismatic acting and singing performance in Anne Wheeler's Bye Bye Blues, for which she received a Best Actress Genie Award. Her feature films include Interstate 60, Bob Roberts, Darrow, South of Wawa, and Cowboys Don't Cry. She will next be seen in another Daniel MacIvor adaptation; Past Perfect. On television, Jenkins is well known for her starring roles in CBC and Alliance's successful series Black Harbour, and in Atlantis's Destiny Ridge. She recently gueststarred on A&E's Nero Wolfe and CTV's The Associates, and has appeared in Outer Limits, Beyond Reality, Avonlea and Street Legal.
Jenkins' many starring roles in movies for television include CBS's And Never Let Her Go, Guilty Hearts, Catch A Falling Star; Disney's Angels in the Infield; ABC's The Ruby Silver; and NBC's Bad Prospects, Till Death Do Us Part, Honour Bright and Harvest, for which she received a Gemini Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series. Her films for cable include Showtime's Bad Prospect and USA Networks' Split Image. As a singer, Jenkins toured with Parachute Club and Jane Siberry, and continues to perform on occasion, as in the recent tribute to Joni Mitchell.

Film Movement

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