Yanna McIntosh

Yanna McIntosh

História

Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian stage, film and television actress.

Perfil

Yanna McIntosh

Filmes

Like a House on Fire
Nancy
Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.
Mary Goes Round
Bethany
When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.
Protesto Silencioso
Cery
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra
Cleopatra
Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.
Fase Um
Patricia
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
A Raisin in the Sun
Miss Tilly
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Finn's Girl
Diana
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's".
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Dr. Crone
Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially safer mastectomy.
Sentinela
Teddy Vargas
Nunca houve um traidor no serviço secreto dos Estados Unidos... até agora. E as pistas apontam para Pete Garrison (Douglas), um dos agentes de mais confiança do departamento. Agora ele tem que fugir de dois incansáveis agentes federais (Sutherland e Eva Longoria) que estão em seu encalço. Garrison tem que lutar para limpar seu nome e impedir um atentado contra a vida do presidente, antes que seja tarde!
Em Busca da Liberdade
Ruth
Depois de escapar das crueldades cometidas pelo regime talibã no Afeganistão, uma mulher chega aos Estados Unidos à procura de uma nova vida. Para sua surpresa, lá ela também passa a ser perseguida. Agora, ela precisa da ajuda de seu advogado para reverter à situação e ser aceita em solo norte-americano. Ela sabe que a disputa será dura, mas não tem muita saída já que voltar para a sua terra natal também implica em ser perseguida e morta pelo cruel regime que controla seu país. Uma história dramática sobre intolerância e aceitação, além de revelar a condição da mulher na sociedade atual.
Spooky House
Nicole
A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
Um Ato de Coragem
State Employee
John Q. Archibald é um homem comum, que trabalha em uma fábrica e vive feliz com sua esposa Denise e seu filho Michael. Até que Michael fica gravemente doente, necessitando com urgência de um transplante de coração para sobreviver. Sem ter condições de pagar pela operação e com o plano de saúde de sua família não cobrindo tais gastos, John Q. se vê então numa luta contra o tempo pela sobrevivência de seu filho. Em uma atitude desesperada, ele então decide tomar como refém todo o setor de emergência de um hospital, passando a discutir uma solução para o caso com um negociador da polícia e com um impaciente chefe de polícia, que deseja encerrar o caso o mais rapidamente possível.
Crime em Nova York
Anna
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through one of her roommates, Nikki. Through Nikki and others, Macy learns of the victim's shady contacts at City Hall, the involvement of a gang of Asian drug runners, and the sordid affairs of one of the city's bigwigs. As Macy begins to understand how all these crimes fit together, he learns that his new friend Nikki is not an innocent bystander.
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Denny Traynor has the idyllic life a loving wife and family, a flourishing career. Seems like life is perfect until some policemen from another break into their home one night and arrest him for a twenty year old murder. Initially, Denny denies the accusations made against him but when evidence is presented that implicates him, he is then extradited to stand trial. When his wife, whose faith has been shaken asks him what happened, he tells her that he did kill the man they said he killed but in self-defense. However, when there is no evidence that supports his claim, his wife wonders if he has told her the truth, and if she should continue to support him.
Ressurreição
Slave Woman
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.