Anna Silk
Birthday: Born in 1974-01-31 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Anna Silk (born 31 January 1974) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Bo Dennis, the protagonist of the Showcase television series Lost Girl. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, on January 31, 1974. Her father is British and her mother is a "Turkish Cypriot-English expat". Silk has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Silk attended Fredericton High School and St. Thomas University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997. She began her acting career in theatre, appearing in several productions with Theatre St. Thomas. In 1999, she moved to Toronto to further her acting career. She made her television debut in 2000, with a guest appearance on the series Twice in a Lifetime. In 2001, Silk was cast in the recurring role of Deb, a flight attendant, on the Canadian sitcom The Newsroom. She also appeared in several other television series in the early 2000s, including Smallville, Stargate Atlantis, and The L Word. In 2010, Silk was cast as Bo Dennis in the supernatural crime drama Lost Girl. The series ran for five seasons and earned Silk several awards, including a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In addition to her work on television, Silk has also appeared in several films. Her film credits include The Wicker Man (2006), The Perfect Husband (2010), and Assassins Tale (2013). Silk is married to Seth Cooperman, an actor and writer. They have two sons, Samuel and Levi. In 2019, Silk was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions to Canadian society.
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Angela's Eyes
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FBI agent Angela Clinton has the exceptional gift of knowing when someone is lying. She discovered this skill at age 14, when she learned her "average" American parents were actually spies. Attempting to right her parents' wrong, Angela is now working with the same agency that brought her parents down....
Mutant X
Character: Asia
Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Avi Arad, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The mission of Mutant X is to seek out and protect their fellow New Mutants. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Even though the series had high ra...
Ghost Whisperer
Character: Haylie Wayne
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over....
Blood & Treasure
Character: Roarke
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts....
Puppets Who Kill
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Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow....
Undressed
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A peek behind closed doors at the intricacies of modern relationships. Each episode features three different fictional stories and follows various characters to see what happened during their most intimate moments. No subject is too taboo. All the stories have one very important thing in common, though: someone inevitably gets undressed....
Lost Girl
Character: Bo
The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins....
The Company
Character: Stella Bledsoe
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself....
The Jane Show
Character: Kathy
Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all....
Wynonna Earp
Character: Kevin
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice....
Republic of Doyle
Character: Tania St. Croix
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law....
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Earthstorm
Character: Bryna
A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. But when further examination is conducted it's discovered that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable -- threatening all life on earth. With time running out, a team of scientists turn to one man, demolitions expert John Redding, in effort to find a solution and secure the moon....
Breakfast with Scot
Character: Mia
The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are forced to take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year-old....
Legacy of Fear
Character: Kathleen Coyne
A police detective catches wind of a brutal serial killer - the same serial killer who is responsible for the deaths of her parents, 30 years earlier....
Assassins Tale
Character: Grace
Three assassins deal with life, love, addiction and trust as each tries to find the answers to a better life. Together, they prove to be the most trustworthy in this tangled web of murder, greed, friendship and betrayal....
Where the Truth Lies
Character: Gina (uncredited)
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team....
Deception
Character: Julie
Erin, a struggling actress, has little faith in men. She works for a detective agency, her job is to seduce married men and let their wives catch them in the act. But lately, Erin is been getting threatening phone calls and someone is trying to hurt her. Is it her boss, who's in-love with her? or is it a former "client" trying to get back at her? or maybe, this new man she's been seeing?...
Love Rules!
Character: Lynn Hopp
When Kelly and Michael decide to get married, they want to have an off-beat wedding without all the traditional glitz. But when their friends and Kelly's mother introduce them to the rules of engagement, a simple, intimate wedding becomes a huge production....
The Perfect Neighbor
Character: Ashley Marin
A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband....
Anonymous Rex
Character: Keri
The dinosaurs didn't go completely extinct when the asteroids hit 65 million years ago. Today, every ten thousandth person in the country is a dinosaur, evolved to be human-sized, wearing sophisticated solid-light holographic disguises to maintain the facade, getting stoned off regular cooking herbs like basil, rosemary and tarragon, and living by their own shadow government's laws; any human who stumbles upon them is to be immediately executed. Two dino private investigators, velociraptor Vince...
Do Not Bend
Character: Catye
Sometimes even a monster home in the suburbs isn't big enough to contain the baggage of one complicated couple. Newlyweds Catye and Jason have it all: looks, excellent jobs, and a great big mortgage they can handle no sweat. There's only one hitch: they haven't consummated their marriage. "Do Not Bend" is the story of what happens when two people try to replace reality with a fantasy that is the opposite of their wildest dreams....