Jacqueline Samuda

Jacqueline Samuda is a Canadian actress, director and writer. Born in Ottawa, she grew up in Canada and the United States, studied performance at York University in Toronto and served an apprenticeship at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Viewers know her from recurring parts on the television series Spooksville, The L Word and Stargate SG-1, alongside other film, episodic and animation work. She does a great deal of voiceover, from commercials and audiobooks to video games and documentary narration, and reached the finals of the international VOICEY Awards in 2008. Her writing and directing earned the first Motion Picture Producers Association and Women in the Directors' Chair feature film prize in 2008, and she has edited screenplays including The Delicate Art of Parking and The Foursome. She directed theater in Toronto and Los Angeles, taking a Best Director honor from the L.A. Critics for Zastrozzi, made seven short films, and taught at Vancouver Film School.