Reagan Pasternak (born March 8, 1977) is a Canadian actress known for her role as Julianne in the TV series Being Erica.
Pasternak was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the youngest of four. She has two older sisters and an older brother. She is also a singer, and has won numerous awards and scholarships for her music. In 2003 she was nominated for a Gemini for her performance of Zelda Fitzgerald in Hemingway vs. Callaghan.
Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962) is a Canadian actor. From 1998 to 2000, he portrayed Brett Parker in Power Play. He has acted in over 40 films and television series, including This Is Wonderland, for which he received a Gemini Award, and the Emmy-nominated BBC / Discovery Channel co-production Supervolcano. He also portrays a leading character in the 2009 CBC Television series Being Erica.
Riley was born in London, Ontario, and graduated from the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada in 1984. Riley's first screen appearance was in the film No Man's Land (1987).
As a stage actor, he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for his performance as Arkady in George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred in 1988.
He has voiced the animated title character of Ace Lightning.
Joanna Douglas (born April 11, 1983) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Samantha Strange on Being Erica. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College's joint theatre and drama studies program.
Douglas was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. As an adolescent, Douglas had a difficult time in high school. Her mother allowed her to change school districts to get a fresh start. Her participation in dancing helped her to eventually make more friends. It was through dancing that she developed an interest in the arts. She thus became involved with the drama program at her high school, which she enjoyed. However, her mother was not initially supportive of her decision to pursue acting.
Douglas described her role on Being Erica as a "wonderful opportunity". She also praised the writing on the show.
About her role in Saw 3D, she stated that even though she was in the movie, she has not seen any of the films in the franchise because they "terrify" her.
Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5, 2009 to December 12, 2011.
Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was originally announced by the CBC as The Session, but was retitled Being Erica before debuting in 2009. It is produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.
The show stars Erin Karpluk as Erica Strange, a woman who begins seeing a therapist to deal with regrets in her life, only to discover the therapist (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually relive these events and even change them.
In Canada, the second season premiered on September 22, 2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the second season due to budget cuts at the CBC.
On May 11, 2010, the CBC announced that Being Erica was renewed for a third season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it was picking up the full third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21, 2010, at 9 pm ET, on CBC Television. In the United States, Season 3 began aired on Soapnet starting January 26, 2011.
Erin Karpluk (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Strange on Being Erica and Kate in Godiva's.
Erin Karpluk was born in Jasper, Alberta to a high school principal mother and a railway engineer father. Her family is of Ukrainian descent. She majored in theatre at the University of Victoria and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2000.
She began her acting career in Vancouver and between 2000 and 2005, she appeared in more than a dozen television movies and series before landing the role of Kate in Godiva's. Her work during this period included "Voice of Sylan" in the final episode of Dark Angel and the TV movie Family Sins. She was also in a short-lived US television series called Glory Days in 2002. In 2004, she appeared in Legend of Earthsea and played a serial killer in Ripper 2: Letter from Within.
Karpluk earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godiva's and a 2006 Gemini nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Since Godiva's, Karpluk has continued to work in television and short films. In 2007 she appeared in Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, and The L Word. She had a leading role in a 2008 television movie, Smokejumpers, directed by John Terlesky.
I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dillitante's and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?
Reagan Pasternak (born March 8, 1977) is a Canadian actress known for her role as Julianne in the TV series Being Erica.
Pasternak was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the youngest of four. She has two older sisters and an older brother. She is also a singer, and has won numerous awards and scholarships for her music. In 2003 she was nominated for a Gemini for her performance of Zelda Fitzgerald in Hemingway vs. Callaghan.