Alison Sealy-Smith

Birth : 1958-11-30, Barbados

History

Emotionally compelling actor and director, born in the Barbados in 1959. Alison Sealy-Smith studied psychology at Mount Allison University, and has been active in Canadian theatre for over thirty-five years. In 1981, she joined the Pelican Players, Canada's first multicultural community theatre. She returned to the Barbados in 1982 with her daughter, and acted in plays by Earl Warner. Without a formal acting education, she learned from directors and actors. Following her return to Canada 1985, she performed with the Pelican Players in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in other theatre festivals in England and Holland. During the 1980s, she worked with community theatres such as Ground Zero Productions, Theatre Outreach, Theatre Fountainhead, Theatre in Exile, and the Imani Theatre Ensemble.

Movies

Vigilante: The Crossing
Myrtle
Dexter Gooding (Kirk Brown), an ex-convict, deported from the US returns to his homeland to find his beloved community Bakers Village engulfed in crime. The police are out-gunned and out-numbered. Rape, murder and robbery plague his once beautiful paradise. Armed with guilt of past crimes and a genuine passion for his birthplace, Dexter takes on the mission of Vigilante. In true Robin Hood style, Dexter mercilessly seeks to eradicate Bakers Village of all criminals. Its on this very ruthless path, he meets Amy (Malissa Alana), a white Barbadian woman, who is on a similar mission and their worlds collide. Black and white, rich and poor, upper and lower class, and as the their paths cross...the historical cap of racial, class and social prejudice, violently erupts and suddenly threatens the mission. Love, hate, passion, guilt and prejudice all meet head on and Dexter and his beloved Bakers Village are now at a Crossroad.
You Kill Me
Doris Rainford
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Haunting Sarah
A mother dealing with the death of her young son learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
Dark Water
Supervisor
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom.
The Skulls III
Dr. Franks
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Honey
Marisol
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
The Little Bear Movie
Cub's Mother
Little Bear and Father Bear go camping in the wilderness where Little Bear encounters all kinds of new sights and sounds: an eagle's flight, a wolf's howl... and a wild little bear named Cub fishing in a stream. Even though they're from different worlds, Little Bear and Cub become fast friends.
A House Divided
Ruth
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Down in the Delta
Diner #2
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Rude
Rude Caller
This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.
Friends at Last
Woman #1
Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.