Golden Globe nominated actress Tatiana Maslany stars in BBC America's critically acclaimed ORPHAN BLACK, which was in production on season three. In the series she plays several identical women who are revealed to be clones. In 2013 the part earned her the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Dramatic Actress, the TCA Award in the category of Individual Achievement in Drama, a Young Hollywood Award for breakthrough performance, a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama and her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Dramatic Actress. In 2014 she received her second Critics' Choice nomination as well as a TCA Award nomination in the category of Individual Achievement in Drama. Most recently she received her second Canadian Screen Award as well as a SAG Award nomination in the category of: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.
Maslany will next be seen in The Weinstein Company's THE WOMAN IN GOLD, starring alongside Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Simon Curtis directed the film, in which she plays a young Helen Mirren.
Maslany has earned a reputation for playing complex characters. The Globe and Mail called her "a chameleon" whose range spans everything from the Virgin Mary to leather-wearing tough girls. Chosen as one of its "Rising Stars" at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Maslany earned Best Performance awards from the Whistler International Film Festival and ACTRA for her role as the troubled, promiscuous teenager Claire in PICTURE DAY.
Her starring role in GROWN UP MOVIE STAR opposite Shawn Doyle competed at Sundance in 2010, and she garnered the Special Jury Prize for Breakout Star at the festival as well as a Genie nomination.
Her feature credits also include CAS AND DYLAN opposite Richard Dreyfuss, the acclaimed indie drama PICTURE DAY, THE VOW opposite Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, Geoffrey Fletcher's directorial debut VIOLET AND DAISY opposite Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel, and a lead in Sean Garrity's improvisational feature BLOOD PRESSURE opposite Jake Epstein.
Maslany's numerous television credits include the Tandem and Scott Free Production WORLD WITHOUT END based on the novel by Ken Follett, a Gemini-nominated performance as the Virgin Mary in the BBC/CBC co-production NATIVITY, and Gemini-winning roles in FLASHPOINT for CBS and CTV and BLOODLETTING AND MIRACULOUS CURES for TMN. She was also recently seen in a two-episode arc of NBC's hit show PARKS AND RECREATION.
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