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Janet Bailey(I)

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Janet Bailey
Janet was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Her professional career began following her time at Toronto's Leah Posluns Theatre. She first studied Dance with Jacques Fosier and later studied Drama with Reva Stern and Rose Dubin. In 1984, she went to study and at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where she studied under the tutelage of Sandford Meisner, graduating in 1985. Her film career ;Race to Freedom; began in 1986 but she continued to learn her craft studying with Carol Rosenfeld Kurt Reis and Neil Freeman at C.A.S.T. and finally studying theatre with Jim Wilson in Los Angeles. Her career in Theatre, Television and Film has won accolades in Canada and the United States. For example, for her role as Sarah in the television movie Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, which costarred Courtney B. Vance, Janet Bailey received a Best Actress Gemini Nomination. The production also screened at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Bailey was introduced as "one of Canada's best kept secrets". Her work on the series Traders, in the role of Susannah Marks, brought her a second and third nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In Deepa Mehta's screen version of The Republic of Love she plays the quirky ex-wife of Bruce Greenwood's Tom Avery. That same year she played opposite Greg Kinear in the feature film Godsend, starring Robert De Niro. In the final season of the critically acclaimed series Slings and Arrows, Bailey played soap opera diva Barbara Gorman, which she followed with the role of straight talking lawyer Susan Aimes on NBC's Beautiful People. After viewing Bailey's interpretation of the sweet but streetwise prostitute, Velma Fontaine, in the television movie Spencer Ceremony, New York Magazine singled her out as "meriting a movie of her own" Her fourth Gemini nomination, this time for Best actress in a guest role, came for her portrayal of Harriet in an episode of Global Television's Blue Murder. She also teaches theatre due to being active on both stage and screen.
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      • 4 nominations total

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    Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Rebecca Romijn in Godsend (2004)
    Godsend
    4.8
    • Cora Williams
    • 2004
    Al Pacino and Colin Farrell in The Recruit (2003)
    The Recruit
    6.6
    • Young Instructor #1
    • 2003
    Shawna Waldron in Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008)
    Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
    4.2
    • Hadrian
    • 2008
    Traders (1996)
    Traders
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Susannah Marks(as Janet C.A. Bailey)

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    • King (2011)
      King
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Eloise Meeks
      • 2011
    • Love Tales (2010)
      Love Tales
      7.8
      • Juliette
      • 2010
    • Forty Broken Words (2010)
      Forty Broken Words
      8.5
      Short
      • Juliet
      • 2010
    • Amy Jo Johnson, Enrico Colantoni, Michael Cram, Sergio Di Zio, Hugh Dillon, and David Paetkau in Flashpoint (2008)
      Flashpoint
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Olivia Jackson
      • 2009
    • Dancing Trees (2009)
      Dancing Trees
      4.8
      • Candice
      • 2009
    • Shawna Waldron in Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008)
      Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
      4.2
      • Hadrian
      • 2008
    • 'Da Kink in My Hair (2007)
      'Da Kink in My Hair
      5.1
      TV Series
      • Ms. Mavis
      • 2007
    • Paul Gross in Slings and Arrows (2003)
      Slings and Arrows
      8.8
      TV Series
      • Barbara
      • Barabra
      • 2006
    • Peter Williams in North/South (2006)
      North/South
      4.6
      TV Series
      • Daphne Colley
      • 2006
    • Beautiful People (2005)
      Beautiful People
      6.8
      TV Series
      • 2006
    • Kevin Hill (2004)
      Kevin Hill
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Judge L. Gower
      • 2004
    • Roman Podhora in Blue Murder (2001)
      Blue Murder
      6.3
      TV Series
      • Harriet Kingston
      • 2004
    • Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Rebecca Romijn in Godsend (2004)
      Godsend
      4.8
      • Cora Williams
      • 2004
    • Sonja Smits in Bury the Lead (2002)
      Bury the Lead
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Isobel
      • 2004
    • Vivica A. Fox, Mark Consuelos, and Caterina Scorsone in 1-800-Missing (2003)
      1-800-Missing
      6.4
      TV Series
      • Amanda Buckley
      • 2003

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    • Cyborg Soldier (2008)
      Cyborg Soldier
      4.3
      Video
      • painter
      • 2008

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      Traders, The Recruit, Godsend, and Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
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