EXCLUSIVE: Sheila McCarthy, currently starring in Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film women talk signed with Atlas Artists for management.
McCarthy appears alongside Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw women talk, nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For her role as Greta, McCarthy received the Career Achievement Award at the 2022 Denver Film Festival and is part of the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, presented to the director, cast and crew of a film.
In a career spanning four decades, Toronto-born McCarthy is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for I heard the mermaids sing and lotus eater. She also received two Canadian Television Awards for it Sesame street and Emily of New Moonamong other awards.
McCarthy recently directed her first short film, Red-brown seasonand played along Little black dress, a film directed by her daughter, producer Mackenzie Donaldson. The independent Canadian feature cardinalsan official selection at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, earned her the 2018 Actra Award for Best Actress.
Current TV credits included Star Trek: Discovery, ABC The good doctor, Private Eyesopposite William Shatner, a recurring arc on Netflix Umbrella Academyj, and the Baroness of Sketch Show. The latest features include Happy Place, Christmas Club, Broken Hearts Galleryand The Middle Manwhich started at TIFF 2021.
Other credits include Die Hard 2, Out With Liza Minnelli, Being Julia, The Day After Tomorrow, Virtual Mom (which she wrote and produced), I Was A Teenage Drama Queen, Picket Fences, Little Mosque On The Prairie, Orphan Black, Isobel, and Martin Hagge and night shotboth opposite Gordon Pinsent.
Author: Denise Petski
Source: Deadline
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