| Liisa Repo-Martell | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1971 (age 53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Known for | Gemini award winner |
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist.
Repo-Martell's parents, Satu Repo and George Martell, were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as This Magazine.
Repo-Martell grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. She received a Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.
She portrayed Mrs. Genest, the estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), in the 2006 made-for-TV-movie Jesse Stone: Night Passage. In February 2012, the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband; actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple". Repo-Mertell portrayed Sir Reginald Hargreeves' wife Abigail in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Cocktail | Young girl in deli | |
| 1989 | American Boyfriends | Julie La Belle | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Faith | |
| 1996 | Can I Get a Witness? | Sam | Short film |
| The English Patient | Jan | ||
| 2000 | Washed Up | Brains | |
| Infidelity | Maid | Short film | |
| Hold-Up | Woman | ||
| 2003 | Bastards | Finnie | |
| 2004 | Touch of Pink | Delia | |
| 2007 | Diamonds in a Bucket | Vivian | Short film |
| Lars and the Real Girl | Laurel | ||
| 2015 | King Lear | Regan | |
| 2016 | Lavender | Jennifer | |
| 2020 | Flashback | Mrs. Fitzell | |
| Happy Place | Nina |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Street Legal | Kate Quinlan | "Soul Custody" |
| 1992 | The Good Fight | Sandra | TV film |
| 1993 | E.N.G. | Terry | "The Big Sleepover" |
| Class of '96 | Miranda | "The Adventures of Pat's Man and Robin" | |
| Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Patty | "The Lacquered Box" | |
| 1994 | TekWar: TekLab | Galahad | TV film |
| Lives of Girls and Women | Naomi | ||
| 1995 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Trish | "May I Walk with You" |
| 1996 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Billy Jean | "Partners" |
| Hidden in America | Angela | TV film | |
| Critical Choices | Amy | ||
| 1997 | Once a Thief | Nikki | "Rave On" |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Kristie Schuermann | TV film |
| Nights Below Station Street | Adele Walsh | ||
| 1998–1999 | Emily of New Moon | Maida Flynn | "Falling Angels" & "The Return of Maida Flynn" |
| 1999 | Earth: Final Conflict | Amanda Hayes | "Volunteers" |
| Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Jenny Turner | "Body and Soul" | |
| 2000 | Strong Medicine | Jessie | "Pilot" |
| 2002 | Scared Silent | Carole Bakelin | TV film |
| 2003 | Missing | Stacy Drake | "Thin Air" |
| 2005–2006 | This Is Wonderland | Sandy Fisher | Recurring role |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Carole Genest | TV film |
| Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | |||
| Puppets Who Kill | Lottie | "Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation" | |
| 2007 | Trapped! | First Officer Maiju Saari | "Ocean Emergency" |
| 2008 | ReGenesis | Marie Gervais | "The Kiss" |
| 2009 | Diverted | Eileen Northbrook | TV film |
| The Listener | Rebecca Cahill | "My Sister's Keeper" | |
| 2010 | Republic of Doyle | Shannie Malone | "The Fall of the Republic" |
| Flashpoint | Claire Williams | "Acceptable Risk" | |
| 2011, 2020 | Murdoch Mysteries | Lydia Howland/Bridget Mulcahy | "Dead End Street"/"Rigid Silence" |
| 2011 | Committed | Donneymeade | TV film |
| 2012 | King | Dot Fuller | "Freddy Boise" |
| 2013 | Cracked | Angie Coturno | "Spirited Away" |
| 2014 | Remedy | Cynthia | "Homecoming" |
| 2016 | Saving Hope | Tracy | "Not Fade Away" |
| 2019, 2022–2024 | The Umbrella Academy | Abigail Hargreeves | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Anne with an E | Mrs. Rose | "The Summit of My Desires" and "Great and Sudden Change" |
References
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"Actress comfortable in Chekhov's shorts". Toronto Star. 1999-11-11. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
A Gemini Award winner last year for her starring role in CBC-TV's Nights Below Station Street, her stage credits include an achingly fragile turn in The Glass Menagerie at London's Grand Theatre and a feisty role in Go Chicken Go's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.
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Glenn Sumi (2001-08-30). "Liisa Repo-Martell: She's poured her soul into Soulpepper's classics, but is the city's most serious actor having a good time?". Now. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
Perhaps her commitment comes from her parents, political activists and academics who co-founded This Magazine (then called This Magazine is About Schools). "It was almost a religious upbringing," says Repo-Martell. "They had this sense of justice, of utopia. They were passionate. It was inspiring".
- "Company Theatre: Liisa Repo-Martell". Company Theatre.
- credits from Jesse Stone: Night Passage movie
- "The One: Chris Abraham & Liisa Repo-Martell". National Post. 2012-02-11. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.