Yanna McIntosh
Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian stage, film and television actress. Yanna honed her craft at the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. Her teaching roles at the National Theatre School and Humber College included directing students in acclaimed productions like Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III. Her portrayal of Pat Barrows in the 2006 TV movie "Doomstown" earned her a 2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role. Notably, McIntosh made history in 2011 as the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in "Ruined," which also garnered her a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance. She had previously won Doras for her roles in Florence Gibson’s "Belle" and Athol Fugard’s "Valley Song."
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.144 |
Birthday | 1970-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Giamaica |
Also Known As | Yanna MacIntosh, |
2006
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
5.6/8
A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer.
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Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
2008
A Raisin in the Sun
6.1/31
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 whe...
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A Raisin in the Sun
2007
Finn's Girl
5.2/10
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 proteste...
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Finn's Girl
2006
The Sentinel
6.029/747
A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attem...
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The Sentinel
2004
Chasing Freedom
8/2
New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case inv...
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Chasing Freedom
2015
Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra
4/1
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...
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Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra
2016
Unless
4.8/14
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
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Unless
2001
True Blue
4.8/21
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 identif...
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True Blue
2002
Spooky House
6/17
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 chamb...
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Spooky House
2018
Mary Goes Round
6.5/24
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...
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Mary Goes Round
1998
Down in the Delta
6.4/23
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...
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Down in the Delta
2012
Bloodwork
5.333/33
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. T...
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Bloodwork
2021
Like a House on Fire
7.2/6
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...
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Like a House on Fire
2002
John Q
7.107/2332
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because...
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John Q
2022
Slumberland
7.365/805
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightma...
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Slumberland
1999
Murder on Shadow Mountain
2/1
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...
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Murder on Shadow Mountain
2000
Deliberate Intent
7/2
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how...
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Deliberate Intent
2023
The Marsh King's Daughter
6.447/264
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother cap...
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The Marsh King's Daughter
2022
Swindler Seduction
5.5/4
Louisa meets entrepreneur Steve at a bar. After 48 blissful hours, Steve disappears and Louisa realizes she's been cheated out of thousands of dollars...
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Swindler Seduction
2024
Humane
5.4/53
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's pla...
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Humane
2023
Mothers
0/0
Two women and a child seek refuge in an ATM vestibule when pursued by an angry man who wants money — money they don't have.
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Mothers
2007
They Come Back
5/2
A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre?...
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