18 Facts About Michelle Latimer

Michelle Latimer is a Canadian actress, director, writer, and filmmaker.

Michelle Latimer initially rose to prominence for her role as Trish Simkin on the television series Paradise Falls, shown nationally in Canada on Showcase Television.

Michelle Latimer is the co-creator, writer, and director of the CBC Television series Trickster.

Michelle Latimer later studied theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Michelle Latimer initially garnered recognition for portraying goth teen Trish Simpkin in Paradise Falls.

Michelle Latimer had a minor appearance in the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Michelle Latimer performed the play in 2004 at Crow's Theatre in Toronto and she played Benita, a psychic prostitute.

Michelle Latimer later produced and directed an animated film titled Choke, which was funded by bravoFACT and screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was one of five animated shorts nominated for a Genie Award in 2011.

Since the early 2010s, Michelle Latimer has dedicated her time to documentary filmmaking.

Michelle Latimer adapted the series from Eden Robinson's 2017 novel Son of a Trickster.

Michelle Latimer works as a film curator; she is a programmer for the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the Hot Docs Film Festival and is a programming advisor for Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque and the Regent Park Film Festival.

In interviews, Michelle Latimer has said that her father is French-Canadian and that her mother is Algonquin and Metis.

Michelle Latimer subsequently apologized for having claimed historical roots to the Kitigan Zibi community before fully verifying them, and resigned from the production of her television series Trickster, after the husband and wife producing team of Tony Elliott and Danis Goulet resigned from the show, citing the questions and criticism about Michelle Latimer's ethnic identity as their reason.

In responding to journalists, Michelle Latimer said her identification as Indigenous rested on the oral history of her maternal grandfather who talked about being Indigenous and sometimes used the term "Metis".

Michelle Latimer produced genealogical records to bolster her claim that she was a 'non-status Algonquin'; these claims were rejected by tribal leaders.

Census records reviewed by CBC News suggest that Michelle Latimer's grandfather was French-Canadian.

However, Dominique Ritchot, a genealogist and researcher with an expertise in French-Canadian families, claimed that Michelle Latimer had two Indigenous ancestors dating from 1644, while most of her other ancestors were identifiable as French Canadian, Irish and Scottish.

In January 2021, it was reported that Michelle Latimer served CBC with a notice of libel, claiming to "have grave concerns about the fairness and accuracy" of the CBC's reporting on her ancestry.