The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival has announced its Rising Stars. Each year, TIFF picks 4 young Canadian stars in the making.
The Rising Stars have different paths whether they have done a couple of films or mostly TV work.
The 2019 Rising Stars are (left to right) Kacey Rohl, Mikhail Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, and Shamier Anderson.
We have our first sibling connection as Anderson joins his brother Stephan James (class of 2015) on the list. Anderson and his brother Stephan co-founded the B.L.A.C.K. Ball, an event hosted in Toronto during TIFF and in Los Angeles during Oscars season.
Rohl, from Vancouver, has done mostly television, including The Killing, Arrow, Hannibal, Wayward Pines, and The Magicians. She will be featured in White Lie playing at TIFF 2019.
Ahooja, a Montréal-based actor, has done a mix of plays, TV, and movies. TV credits include Au secours de Béatrice, Prémonitions, and Juste nous deux. His feature films include La Maison du pêcheur, Fabuleuses, and The Twentieth Century, the latter playing at TIFF 2019.
Ricci, born in Montréal, has a varied career as a performer, interpreter, and author/director. She is also the author, director, and interpreter of the play Identikit, presented in the Montréal fringe festival. Ricci has been in Ailleurs and the upcoming Antigone playing at TIFF 2019.
Anderson, from Toronto, has had the most famous career in and out of Canada. His TV work includes Wynonna Earp and Goliath. His feature roles include Across the Line, Destroyer, and City of Lies. Endings, Beginnings debuts at TIFF 2019.
We continue to see past Rising Stars. Jared Abrahamson (2016) is in the TV show Travelers available on Netflix in the U.S. and Canada. Alexandre Landry (2014) was in the latest Denys Arcand film The Fall of the American Empire | La chute de l'empire américain. Grace Glowicki (2016) was in Paper Year and will be in Raf at TIFF 2019. Charlotte Sullivan (2012) just finished up the final season of Mary Kills People. Karelle Tremblay (2015) starred in The Fireflies Are Gone. Sophie Nélisse (2016) will be in The Rest Of Us at TIFF 2019. Evelyne Brochu (2013) was in Monia Chokri's La femme de mon frère, a film that debuted at Cannes 2019.
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Here are the TIFF Rising Stars.
2011 Sarah Allen, Katie Boland, Sarah Gadon, Keon Mohajeri
2012 Tatiana Maslany, Connor Jessup, Charlotte Sullivan, Charlie Carrick
2013 Megan Park, Johnathan Sousa, Evelyne Brochu, Cara Gee
2014 Shannon Kook, Sophie Desmarais, Alexandre Landry, Julia Sarah Stone
2015 Deragh Campbell, Stephan James, Aliocha Schneider, Karelle Tremblay
2016 Jared Abrahamson, Grace Glowicki, Mylène Mackay, Sophie Nélisse
2017 Daniel Doheny, Mary Galloway, Théodore Pellerin, Ellen Wong
2018 Devery Jacobs, Lamar Johnson, Michaela Kurimsky, Jess Salgueiro
2019 Kacey Rohl, Mikhail Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, Shamier Anderson
You can find out more about these TIFF Rising Stars.
photo credit: TIFF
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