Valerie Buhagiar is a Maltese born Canadian actress, film director and television host.

She studied acting at George Brown College

George Brown College

George Brown College is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three full campuses in downtown Toronto, Ontario...

 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was The Passion of Rita Camilleri, which won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival in 1993.

Buhagiar has won two Dora Mavor Moore Award

Dora Mavor Moore Award

The Dora Mavor Moore Award is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance, and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre, the award was established on December 13, 1978...

s, for The Lorca Play and White Trash, Blue Eyes.

She has also hosted film programming on the Canadian television networks Showcase and TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

.

Actor

• Mrs. Soffel
  Mrs. Soffel
  Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 American film drama based on the true Buck McGovern and the Biddle Boys case of 1901 Pittsburgh, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson. It was filmed on location in and around the Serez family Farm in Mulmer Ontario, as well as Wisconsin and establishing shots in Pittsburgh...
  
  (1984)
• Roadkill (1989)
• New Shoes (1990)
• Highway 61 (1991)
• Ultimate Betrayal (1994)
• Romantic Undertaking (1996)
• Johnny Shortwave (1996)
• My Script Doctor (1997)
• The Silver Surfer
  Silver Surfer (TV series)
  Silver Surfer, also known as Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero which aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.-Overview:...
  
  (1998)
• Expecting (2002)
• Cypher
  Cypher (film)
  Cypher , is a 2002 science fiction thriller film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. The film was written by Brian King and directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was shown in limited release in theaters in the USA, and released on DVD on August 2nd 2005.-Plot:Morgan Sullivan, a recently...
  
  (2002)
• The Last Hit (2004)
• A Winter Tale (2007)

Director

• The Passion of Rita Camilleri (1993)
• One Day I Stood Still (1996)
• L'Amour, L'Amour, Shut the Door Por Favor (1998)
• Tell Us the Truth Josephine (2006)
• Small, Stupid and Insignificant (2010)

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