Biography
Yanna McIntosh is a multi-award winning actor known both for her television and theatre performances. She is also a writer and a teacher having directed students at the National Theatre School and Humber College in productions of Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Richard III. Her recent theatre credits include the title role in Mary Stuart for Soulpepper Theatre; The Syringa Tree for Canadian Stage for which she has been nominated for a Dora; Skylight, for the Tarragon Theatre, for which she won a Dora and Andre Alexis’s Lambton Kent which she performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
She also co-wrote and performed the play Trace. Yanna has performed in several plays over the years on most of this country’s and city’s top stages, including the National Arts Centre, the Factory Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre and Theatre Passe Murailles. As a Shakespearean actor, she has performed in many of the Bard’s plays at Stratford and the Canadian Stage including The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra. Her film and television credits include The Best Years (2007); The Sentinel (2006); This is Wonderland (2006); Blue Murder (2004); John Q (2002); Riverdale (1997) and Doomstown (2006) for which she won a Gemini.
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Actress
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2024 |
Dying in Plain Sight (TV movie) |
Humane |
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2023 |
Famous |
The Christmas Detective (TV movie) |
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Verona |
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2016 |
Unless |
2012 |
The Last Experiment |
2008 |
A Raisin in the Sun (TV movie) |
Heaven on Earth |
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2007 |
Finn's Girl |
Matters of Life and Dating (TV movie) |
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They Come Back (TV movie) |
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2006 |
Doomstown (TV movie) |
The Sentinel |
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Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (TV movie) |
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2004 |
Chasing Freedom (TV movie) |
Crown Heights (TV movie) |
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Reversible Errors (TV movie) |
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2002 |
John Q. |
Killer Rats (TV movie) |
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Spooky House |
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The Glow (TV movie) |
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2001 |
Acceptable Risk (TV movie) |
Full Disclosure |
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True Blue |
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2000 |
Deliberate Intent (TV movie) |
1999 |
A Murder On Shadow Mountain (TV movie) |
Atomic Train (TV movie) |
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Strange Justice (TV movie) |
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1998 |
Down in the Delta |
1994 |
The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story (TV movie) |
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2015 |
Antony and Cleopatra |