1. Liane Balaban has guest-starred on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles, Covert Affairs and Alphas, and joined the cast of Supernatural for its eighth season.
26 Facts About Liane Balaban
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Liane Balaban grew up in the Willowdale neighbourhood of North York, now part of Toronto, and went to high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, where she was classmates with singer Henry Lau.
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Liane Balaban majored in journalism at Ryerson University but left to concentrate on acting.
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Liane Balaban received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Concordia University.
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Liane Balaban made her feature film debut in New Waterford Girl, as a 15-year-old misfit longing to escape the Cape Breton coal-mining town of New Waterford.
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Liane Balaban had studied drama in high school, but did not intend to be an actor.
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Liane Balaban made a follow-up with Saint Jude, directed by John L'Ecuyer.
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Liane Balaban starred in the TV movie After the Harvest, opposite Sam Shepard, and appeared in Happy Here and Now, opposite David Arquette and Ally Sheedy.
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Liane Balaban starred in the horror film Spliced, co-starring Ron Silver.
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Liane Balaban appeared in her first mainstream Hollywood feature film, Definitely, Maybe in 2008, a romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds.
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Liane Balaban next appeared in Last Chance Harvey, a romance starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, which had a wide release in January 2009, in the supporting role of Susan, the estranged and soon-to-be-married daughter of Hoffman's character.
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Liane Balaban told The Globe and Mail that her time in London making the film was like "going to the best acting school in the world".
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Liane Balaban starred in the independent drama One Week as Samantha Pierce, a woman whose fiance is diagnosed with terminal cancer and takes a motorcycle trip across Canada.
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Liane Balaban starred in the black comedy You Might as Well Live as a psychotic girl who is obsessed with explosives.
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Liane Balaban shot the CBC TV movie Abroad, based on the love life of Leah McLaren, a Toronto columnist for The Globe and Mail.
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Liane Balaban was nominated for the Gemini Award for best lead actress in a dramatic program or miniseries for the role.
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Liane Balaban then starred in The New Tenants with Vincent D'Onofrio, a short film entered in the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Liane Balaban voiced Lucrezia Borgia in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
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Liane Balaban made her stage debut in February 2011 starring as Claire in Divisadero: A Performance at the Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.
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Liane Balaban filmed the independent comedy, Finding Joy, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in mid-2011.
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Liane Balaban signed on to a recurring role in the CW drama Supernatural in 2012, as Amelia, a young doctor with tragedy in her past.
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Liane Balaban will appear in the independent film The People Garden, starring Pamela Anderson and written and directed by Nadia Litz.
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Liane Balaban described Montreal as "not a city that revolves around acting, so you stay very grounded here" to Hour magazine.
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Liane Balaban enjoys reading, writing, going to art galleries, and hearing music.
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Liane Balaban told Toronto's Now magazine in January 2009 that she was often mistaken for actress Natalie Portman.
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Liane Balaban married Patrick Costello in November 2013 and gave birth to a son on March 1,2016.