Grace Glowicki
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Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta.[1] She is most noted for directing and starring in the 2019 film Tito, which was a shortlisted finalist for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[2]
An alumna of McGill University, Glowicki moved to Toronto, Ontario after graduation.[3] She is alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre, participating in the 2015 CFC Actors Conservatory.[4] She has acted in films including The Oxbow Cure, Her Friend Adam, Suck It Up, Cardinals, We Forgot to Break Up, Paper Year and Raf, and in the web series Out with Dad and Carmilla.
In 2016, she was named by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of its four "Rising Stars" of the year, alongside Jared Abrahamson, Mylène Mackay and Sophie Nélisse.[5] She won a special jury award for best actress in a short film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival for Her Friend Adam,[1] and was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, for her performance in Cardinals.
In its review of her 2020 film Tito The New York Times singled out Glowicki's performance in the the title role.[6] Glowicki also wrote and directed the 70 minute film, and The New York Times called the film "not completely successful as a character study."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fish Griwkowsky (2016-02-02). "Edmonton-born actress wins at Sundance". Edmonton Journal. Archived from " the original on 2021-01-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210123151153/https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/movies/edmonton-born-actress-wins-at-sundance. Retrieved 2022-02-19. "The 27-year-old plays the lead in Her Friend Adam, about a painter who may or may not be having an emotional affair with her gay best friend."
- ↑ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations" (in en-US). https://etcanada.com/news/762082/canadian-screen-awards-announces-2021-film-nominations/.
- ↑ "Canadas rising screen stars: 9 talents changing the stories we tell". Now, April 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Grace Glowicki: Program Completed at the CFC - CFC Actors Conservatory". Canadian Film Centre. 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20210301104716/http://cfccreates.com/alumni/2165. Retrieved 2022-02-19. "Most recently, she starred in the short Her Friend Adam and won the Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival."
- ↑ Renée Tse, "TIFF 2016: 4 Rising Stars to Watch Out For at This Year’s Festival". Fashion, September 7, 2016.
- ↑ Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (2020-07-09). "‘Tito’ Review: An Oddball Character Study". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210114203252/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/movies/tito-review.html. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
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