Emily Perkins
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| Born | Emily Jean Perkins 4 May 1977 Vancouver, Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Dante Perkins |
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Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977) is a Canadian actress, known for her portrayal of Brigitte in the Ginger Snaps trilogy. Starting during the late 1980s, she has appeared in various Canadian, and American movies and television series.
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[edit] Career
As a child actress, Perkins was recognized, notably for her appearance in three made for television movies: 1989s Small Sacrifices, opposite Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal and John Shea, 1990s Anything to Survive, where she played Krista, the sister of Billy Barton (Matt Le Blanc), and Stephen King's IT in 1990, alongside a young Jonathan Brandis, and Seth Green. In 1998, Perkins took a supporting role in the Canadian TV Series: Da Vinci's Inquest as Carmen (series 1, episode 9). Clearly having made a good impression with the producers, she would return to the series in 2001 to take a recurring, supporting role as Sue Lewis for a further 34 episodes. Perkins is, though, most famous for her role as Brigitte in the Ginger Snaps Trilogy of films: Ginger Snaps (2000), Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed which had a limited theatrical release in 2004, and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning which, due to the disappointing box office performance of the first sequel, went straight to video, with the exception of being shown at some art house cinemas for limited runs.[citation needed]
Perkins will appear in the films Blood: A Butcher's Tale and Juno.
[edit] Personal life
Perkins was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2004, she adopted her two cousins, then aged 10 and 13, primarily because their birth parents were unable to care for them. During a protracted hiatus from work, Perkins taught acting at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in the 2005-2006 academic year. She married in December 2005, and gave birth to a son, Dante, in the spring of 2006, returning home to Vancouver in the summer of 2006.
Perkins and her Ginger Snaps co-star, Katharine Isabelle were born in the same hospital, attended the same pre-school and elementary school, and are at the same agency.[citation needed]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
- 2007 - Juno [1]
- 2007 - Blood: A Butcher's Tale[2]
- 2006 - She's the Man
- 2004 - Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
- 2004 - Ginger Snaps: Unleashed
- 2002 - Insomnia
- 2001 - Christy: Return To Cutter Gap
- 2001 - Christy: A New Beginning
- 2001 - Prozac Nation
- 2000 - Ginger Snaps
- 1998 - Past Perfect
- 1996 - In Cold Blood
- 1994 - Moment Of Truth: Broken Pledges
- 1993 - Woman On The Ledge
- 1993 - Miracle On I-880
- 1990 - It
- 1990 - Anything To Survive
- 1989 - Little Golden Bookland (voice of Katy Caboose)
- 1989 - Small Sacrifices
[edit] Television
- 2004 - Dead Like Me (Season 2 Episode 15 - "Haunted")
- 2004 - Da Vinci's Inquest (recurring - 2001-2005)
- 2003 - Mentors (Season 3 Episode 5 - "Transition")
- 2002 - The Twilight Zone (Season 1 Episode 6 - "Night Route")
- 1998 - Da Vinci's Inquest (Season 1 Episode 9 - "The Most Dangerous Time")
- 1998 - The X-Files (Season 5 Episode 17 - "All Souls")
- 1993 - The Odyssey (Season 1 Episode 12 - "Welcome To The Tower")
- 1990 - Mom P.I. (Regular in Season 1)
