Alison Sealy-Smith

출생 : 1958-11-30, Barbados

약력

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.

참여 작품

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.
유 킬 미
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.
다크 워터
Supervisor
남편과 이혼한 달리아(제니퍼 코넬리)는 딸 쎄시의 양육권을 둘러싼 힘겨운 싸움을 벌이던 중 새출발하는 마음으로 이사를 한다. 하지만 새로 이사한 낡은 아파트에는 알 수 없는 일들이 계속 벌어지고 그녀의 상황은 점점 나빠지기만 한다. 천장에선 물이 떨어지고, 엘리베이터 바닥엔 물이 고여있고, 가만히 다가오는 누군가의 손길에 돌아보면 아무도 없고... 음침하고 섬뜩한 공간은 마치 살아 움직이는 괴물처럼 달리아의 숨통을 조여온다. 천장을 적셔오는 검은 물 자국, 뭔지 알 수 없는 의문의 소리들... 과연 공포스러운 공간 저 편에는 무엇이 존재하는 것일까?
스컬스 3
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.
허니
Marisol
뉴욕 브롱스 헌츠포인트의 청소년 센터에서 아이들에게 힙합을 가르치는 허니 다니엘즈는 프로 안무가가 되는 것이 꿈이다. 그 꿈을 이루기 위하여 여러 차례오디션을 봤지만 매니저도 연줄도 없어 매번 낙방의 고배를 마신다. 그러던 어느날, 우연히 그녀의 안무 실력을 보게 된 유명한 뮤직 비디오 감독이 그녀를 찾아온다. 뮤직 비디오 감독의 후원으로 유명 가수들의 뮤직 비디오 안무를 맡으며 스타급 안무가로 떠오른 허니는 감독을 설득, 뮤직 비디오 촬영 때 자신의 학생들을 출연시키기로 한다. 불우한 환경에서 꿈을 잃고 사는 아이들에게 희망을 주고 싶었던 것이었다. 그러나 그녀에게 시련이 다가온다. 감독은 허니에게 흑심을 품고 있었고 그러한 그의 요구를 거절하자 그는 아이들의 출연 약속을 취소해 버리고 허니를 해고한다. 아이들에게 좌절과 절망 대신에 맘껏 춤을 출 댄스 연습실을 마련하여 희망과 꿈을 심어 주려고 했던 그녀의 꿈이 수포로 돌아가게 된 것이다. 하지만 그녀는 좌절 하지 않고 아이들과 함께 자선 댄스 공연을 준비하는데...
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.
다운 인 더 델타
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.