Karyn Dwyer

Karyn Dwyer

Birth : 1975-03-22, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada

Death : 2018-09-25

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karyn Elizabeth Dwyer, also known as Karen Dwyer or Karyn O'Dwyer (March 22, 1975 – September 25, 2018), was a Canadian actress. Her best known role is Maggie in the 1999 film Better Than Chocolate. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karyn Dwyer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Karyn Dwyer

Movies

Burning, Burning
The Woman
A woman seeks atonement from the people she meets on her walk across the city.
The Art of the Steal
Ginger
Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.
Monster Mountain
Carrie
When a young boy becomes lost on a deadly mountain, he soon finds himself battling mother nature and an evil monster in order to get home to his mom.
The Right Way
Amy
Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?
Pony
Pony
Based on an excerpt from the award-winning play White Biting Dog by Judith Thompson. A young woman kills herself in an attempt to save her emotionally dysfunctional lover.
Dead by Monday
Christine
Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.
The Stalking of Laurie Show
Jennifer
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
The List
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
Cheaters
Angela Lam
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Superstar
Summer
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
The Life Before This
Teenage Girl
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Better Than Chocolate
Maggie
Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.
End of Summer
Jenny Malone
An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward (Amy Locane) and a young maid (Karen Dwyer).
Ursa Major
Jodie
Life. Love. Glow-in-the-dark stars.
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover
Samantha
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
The Paperboy
Brenda
A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfect family" come alive.