Miriam Laurence

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Professionals who have studied with Miriam Laurence during the past 25 years are doing extremely well as actors, directors, teachers, screenwriters, and hosts: James Allodi, Semi Chellas, Raven Dauda, Carlos Diaz, Robin Dunne, Agi Gallus, Samantha Gutstadt, Martha Ferguson, Joris Jarsky, Moshana Halbert, Jacqueline McClintock, Trent McMullen, Leah Miller, Michelle Nolden, Philip Nozuka, Deborah Odell, Liisa Repo-Martell, Vladimir Radian, Alex Rice, Joseph Scoren, Jessica Steen, Brandi Ward, Chandra West, Liz West, Rochelle Wilson, Richard Zeppieri, Tatiana Maslany, Warren Chow ... all studied with Miriam - some during their early years of training, some after they had achieved professional status.

Miriam's time on television and film sets, coaching for many productions with actors such as Christina Cole, Denis O'Hare, Alfre Woodard, Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Wayne Robson, Cliff Saunders, Tom Barnett, Mimi Rogers, Gena Rowlands, Sonja Smits and Tia Carrere, has added to her ability to communicate with actors.






* Photo by Iden Ford

MIRIAM LAURENCE ~ M.A., M.F.A.
Voice/Dialect/Dialogue Coach

Film & Television
Cosmopolis
The Darkest Hour
Rookie Blue, "Hearts and Sparks"
XIII: The Series, "The Bank Job"
The Suzuki Diaries
Maggie Hill

Project X (television series)
Angela's Eyes
Beautiful People
Covert One: The Hades Factor
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis
The Pacifier

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

The Eleventh Hour

A Separate Peace
Charms for the Easy Life
Beauty & Power

Breakfast with Dick and Dorothy
Annus Horribilus
Daydream Believers
Relic Hunter
Harlan County
Relic Hunter
Change of Heart
I'll Never Get to Heaven
Alex: The Life of a Child
Billy Madison
Fast Track

Street Legal

Role
Dialect Coach for George Touliatos
English coach for Yuriy Kotsenko
Dialect Coach for Christine Horne
Language Coach for Stuart Townsend
Host coach for Sarika Suzuki
Dialect Coach Christina Cole & 'The Wire's' Gbenga Akinnagbe
Acting Coach for hosts
On-set Acting Coach for lead actors
Dialect Coach
Languages & Dialect Coach
Personal Acting Coach for Alex Rice
Language Coach for Vin Deisel & Language/Dialect Coach for Carol Kane
Dialect Coach for Sienna Guillory, Thomas Kretchmann & Sophie LeVasseur
Languages & Dialect Coach

Acting & Dialect Coach for lead actors
Cast Dialect Coach
Dialect Coach (Canadian accent reduction) with John Ralston
Accent Reduction for lead actress
Individual Dialect Coaching for 4 leads
Individual Dialect Coaching for 4 leads
Dialect Coaching for over fifteen actors
Dialect Coaching for over fifty actors
Dialect Coaching for over fifteen actors
Acting Coach for child lead
Acting Coach for all child actors
Lead Dialect Coach (accent reduction)
Acting Coach for all child leads & extras
5 episodes: Acting Coach for series regular, Guylaine Ste-Onge
20 episodes: Individual and on set coaching for various series regulars

Director
David Cronenberg
Chris Gorak
T.W. Peacocke
Lee Rose
Kenton Vaughan
Stephen Hopkins

Various
Creator: Dan McDermott
Creator: Michael Rauch
Mick Jackson
Gil Cardinal
Adam Shankman

Alexander Witt

Creators: Semi Chellas
& Ilana Frank
Peter Yates
Joan Micklin Silver
Susan Seidelman

Eleanor Lindo
Eric Stoltz
Neill Fearnley
D. McCutcheon
Tony Bill
Paolo Barzman
Don Shebib
Stefan Scaini
Robert Markowitz
Tamra Davis
Creator: Gary Markowitz

Creators:William Deverell & Guy Mullally

Production Company
Alfama Films/Prospero Pictures
Regency Enterprises
ABC/CanWest Global
Prodigy Pictures
The Nature of Things CBC
Fox

CBC
Bull's Eye/NBC
Cliffwood
CBC/Elwood Reid
CBC Broadcast
Disney

Sony Pictures

Alliance Atlantis

Showtime
Showtime/Dufferin Gate
Dufferin Gate/Beauty

Mystery Wheel
Showtime
Pebblehut Monkees
Firecorp VI
Dufferin Gate
Firecorp VI
Desca Productions
CBC Production
ABC/Heartstar
Universal Studios
Screenventures

CBC Production

TRAINING FILMOGRAPHY ~ PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

York University
U.C.L.A.
Bennington College
Actors Studio
The Lee Strasberg Institute
Michael Shurtleff
Madeleine Sherwood
Samantha Langevin
David Smukler

Master of Fine Arts in Directing, 1995
Master of Arts in Theater, 1982
B.A. in Theatre & French, 1976
Working Observer, NYC & LA, 1977 - 1980
Master Class, 1976 - 1979
Scene Study
Acting Techniques
Scene Study
Voice

2009: Madeline's Method: Recipe for the actor
2005: Rue the Day
2004: Wheel and Clay, a poem by Naomi Guttman.
2004: Les Madeleines (written by Victoria Dawe)
2002: Smokin' Joe
2000: Walkers
1999: Corridor
*For more visit Shorts and Ensemble Film Group.

Ms. Laurence is a member of ACTRA, CAEA, and Toronto Association of Acting Studios (TAAS).

Manager: Emmerson Denney, 416-504-9666

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