Biography
Emily is one of Canada's most acclaimed and respected actresses. She has a slew of awards to her credit, including three Genie Award nominations; she was a Best Supporting Actress nominee for the comedy A Problem with Fear, a Best Leading Actress nominee for the movie Blood, and a Best Supporting Actress nominee for the 2006 movie Snow Cake, in which she starred opposite Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. Emily also has won a Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series for Made in Canada.
Emily starred with Jay Baruchel and Scott Speedman in the dark comedy Good Neighbors and the Genie-award winning The Trotsky (also with Jay Baruchel), which won the Audience Award at the 2009 Tokyo International Film Festival. She can be seen in David Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis, in All The Wrong Reasons alongside Cory Montieth (Glee) and in Cannes Film Festival winner Xavier Dolan's movie.
Hampshire also starred in the Canadian series This Space For Rent, Carl² and Northern Town. She starred alongside Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong in the 2006 romantic comedy It's a Boy/Girl Thing, co-starred in The Life Before This, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999, and starred in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl. She also voiced Starr/Nebula on the animated Canadian sitcom 6Teen.
Actress
Movies | |
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2024 |
Humane |
2023 |
Appendage |
Fitting In |
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Mom |
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Self Reliance |
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The Mattachine Family |
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2022 |
The End of Sex |
2018 |
Never Saw It Coming |
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan |
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2017 |
Mother! |
2015 |
Borealis |
2013 |
All the Wrong Reasons |
That Burning Feeling |
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The Returned |
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2012 |
Cosmopolis |
Hitched for the Holidays (TV movie) |
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My Awkward Sexual Adventure |
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2010 |
Die |
Good Neighbors |
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2009 |
The Trotsky |
2007 |
The Cradle |
2006 |
It's a Boy Girl Thing |
Snow Cake |
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2004 |
Blood |
Earthsea (TV movie) |
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2003 |
A Problem with Fear |
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids (TV movie) |
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Posers |
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Twist |
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2001 |
Chasing Cain |
2000 |
Scorn (TV movie) |
The Ride (TV movie) |
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1999 |
Happy Face Murders (TV movie) |
Love Letters (TV movie) |
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Seasons of Love |
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The Life Before This |
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1998 |
Boy Meets Girl |
1997 |
Every 9 Seconds (TV movie) |
1996 |
Dead Innocent |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music & Laughter (TV movie) |
2012 |
Citizens of Cosmopolis |
Short | |
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2014 |
Holder's Comma |
2013 |
Secret Blackheart |
The Good Escape |
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2003 |
In Shadow |
2002 |
Dad |