Cara Gee

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Cara Gee at the CFC Annual Gala & Auction 2018

Cara Gee (born October 2 , 1983 in Calgary ) is a Canadian actress .

Live and act

Gee was five years old, her family moved to Bobcaygeon in the province of Ontario has to offer. Here she attended four different high schools . In the last one, she attended a theater course and applied for an arts management program. At the same time she started organizing punk concerts and was already planning a career in the music industry. She studied acting with a minor in English at the University of Windsor , where she graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts .

Gee started her career as a stage actress in Toronto , where she made her debut in various roles and was able to gain greater media attention from 2012 in plays such as Margaret Atwood's Die Penelopiade , Daniel MacIvors Arigato, Tokyo or Tomson Highways The Rez Sisters . In total she played in more than 20 theater roles in main and secondary casts.

Because of her family ancestry from the Anishinabe Indians, she was eventually cast for her first leading role in the drama Empire of Dirt . Here she plays as the single mother Lena from the First Nations , who is in a generation conflict with her daughter. For her acting performance, she won the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival for Best Actress and was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in 2014 . She got her first major leading role in the western series Strange Empire , which is set in Canada in the 1860s and portrayed a group of women whose husbands were killed. The series was discontinued after the first season. She gained international attention from 2017 in the recurring role as deputy commander Camina drummer of the space station Tycho in the science fiction series The Expanse .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2012: King (TV series, episode 2x10)
  • 2013: Republic of Doyle - Mission for Two ( Republic of Doyle , TV series, episode 5x10)
  • 2013: Empire of Dirt
  • 2014–2015: Strange Empire (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 2016: Inhuman Condition (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 2017: Sundowners
  • 2017: The Carmilla Movie
  • 2017: We Forgot to Break Up (short film)
  • since 2017: The Expanse (TV series)
  • 2018: Birdland
  • 2018: Trouble in the Garden
  • 2018: Red Rover
  • 2019: Home in Time (short film)
  • 2019: Bitter Smoke (short film)
  • 2019: EXT (short film)
  • 2019: It's Nothing (short film)
  • 2020: Call of the Wild (The Call of the Wild)

Web links

Commons : Cara Gee  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Globe and Mail : Actress Cara Gee: Making it big and keeping it real.Retrieved October 2, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Toronoist: People to Watch in 2012 , accessed October 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Toronto Star People to watch: Cara Gee, accessed October 2, 2018
  4. ↑ cf. selected theater activities on their agency's website
personal data
SURNAME Gee, Cara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 2nd 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Canada