1. Tatiana Maslany rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award and five Canadian Screen Awards.
31 Facts About Tatiana Maslany
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For starring in the romantic drama film The Other Half, Tatiana Maslany won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress.
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Tatiana Maslany has two younger brothers, fellow actor Daniel Maslany and animator Michael Maslany.
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Tatiana Maslany has Austrian, German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian ancestry.
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For elementary school, Tatiana Maslany was in French immersion and was taught in German by her mother before learning English.
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Tatiana Maslany has danced since age four and started community theatre and musicals at the age of nine.
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Tatiana Maslany attended Dr Martin LeBoldus High School, where she participated in school productions and improvisation, and graduated in 2003.
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Tatiana Maslany spent some time doing theatre performances and travelling before settling in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 20.
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Tatiana Maslany was one of the stars of the 2002 Canadian television series 2030 CE.
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Tatiana Maslany appeared as the character Ghost in the 2004 film Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed.
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Tatiana Maslany performed comedic improvisation for 10 years; participated in improvisational theatre, including the Canadian Improv Games; and has since become a member of the General Fools Improvisational Theatre.
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In 2007, Tatiana Maslany appeared in The Messengers and had a recurring role for three seasons on the CBC series Heartland.
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Tatiana Maslany appeared in the second season of the Canadian television series Being Erica in 2010.
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In 2012, Tatiana Maslany appeared as lead character Claire in Picture Day, for which she won a Phillip Borsos Award for Best Performance at the 2012 Whistler Film Festival.
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From 2013 to 2017, Tatiana Maslany starred in the BBC America and Space original series Orphan Black.
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Tatiana Maslany played the lead character, Sarah Manning, and Sarah's cohort of clones.
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Tatiana Maslany won two Critics' Choice Television Awards and one TCA Award for her performance in the series.
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Tatiana Maslany was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and in 2015, she received a nomination for an Emmy Award for her performance.
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Tatiana Maslany was again nominated in 2016 and won the category.
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Tatiana Maslany received a nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 7th Critics' Choice Television Awards, her third total nomination from the Broadcast Television Journalists Association.
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In 2013, Tatiana Maslany guest starred in a two-episode arc of Parks and Recreation.
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Tatiana Maslany portrayed the lead in the independent film Cas and Dylan, for which she won a Phillip Borsos Award for Best Performance at the 2013 Whistler Film Festival.
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Tatiana Maslany guest starred on the season 39 finale of Saturday Night Live and played the character Bridget in the episode's second digital short entitled "Hugs".
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Tatiana Maslany co-starred in the 2015 film Woman in Gold as a younger version of Maria Altmann, Helen Mirren's character.
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Tatiana Maslany starred in the independent film The Other Half with her then-partner Tom Cullen.
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Tatiana Maslany played the lead role in the 2016 drama film Two Lovers and a Bear.
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Tatiana Maslany was cast as a series regular in the 2018 drama series Pose but was replaced by Charlayne Woodard.
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Tatiana Maslany starred in the crime thriller film Destroyer, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2018.
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Tatiana Maslany next starred in the Broadway production of Network in 2019.
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Tatiana Maslany starred as Sister Alice in the HBO period drama miniseries Perry Mason, which premiered in June 2020.
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Tatiana Maslany was set to star in AMC's six-episode series Invitation to a Bonfire, a psychological thriller set in the 1930s at an all-girls boarding school based on a 2018 novel by Adrienne Celt, but production on the series was cancelled by the network for content tax write-downs in January 2023, with apparently four episodes shot.