Sheila McCarthy
Birthday: 1956-01-01
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian stage, film and television actress, singer and dancer, best known for playing Polly Vandersma in the feature film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, as well as supporting character Sarah Hamoudi (Cunningham) in the television series Little Mosque on the Prairie. She's a graduate in Theatre and Art History from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In her career, she's won 2 Genie Awards (film), 2 Gemini Awards (television), and 2 Dora Awards (theater), along with multiple nominations.
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Die Hard 2
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in t...
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Pacific Heights
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately ...
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I Was a Rat
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is co...
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Cow Belles
In order to learn how to be responsible, two wealthy teen sisters are forced to work in the family b...
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The Rats
A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city....
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Stepping Out
A has-been Broadway performer gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance class...
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Stroke of Fate
In a hospital waiting room, family wounds are exposed as a mother and son wait for news of their lov...
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Lathe of Heaven
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is co...
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Paradise
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl....
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Geraldine's Fortune
A grocery-store worker in a small Canadian town gets a chance to appear on a popular television game...
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George's Island
After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island, ...
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Antiviral
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celeb...
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A Private Matter
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of tha...
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Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
Thirteen-year-old Jesse is a typical teenager who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink. While visiting a vin...
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Haven
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewis...
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The Biggest Little Ticket
This one-hour children's television special is the story of a young girl who slips into an enchanted...
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a pro...
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Love Is the Monster
A couple, Ana and Justin, rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland, unde...
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Custody of the Heart
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the c...
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Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she...
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White Room
Norm, an aimless writer, witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he...
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The Awakening
Sara lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody and her life is an open book. Left with t...
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The Lotus Eaters
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns...
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The Soulmates in the Gift of Light
Wicked Angris McBragg sets out to ruin Christmas by undermining the forces of good. Santa Claus aban...
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Algonquin
A father-son camping expedition runs aground on misfortune and family secrets....
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The Well
In a world where environmental collapse has left survivors to fight for the precious resources neede...
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The Middle Man
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a communit...
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Christmas in Rockwell
A famous Hollywood actress returns to her hometown where she is enlisted to participate in a Christm...
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An Assortment of Christmas Tales in No Particular Order
Directed dy Chris Agoston, Clara Altimas, Nabil Badine, Neil Huber...
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The Voices of Our Mother
When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ti...
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You Know My Name
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have...
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Dancing on the Elephant
Faced with a future of chair-xercise and spoon-fed pudding, nursing home friends Nora and Edna attem...
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The Possession of Michael D.
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist ...
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The Marriage Bed
Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in...
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Surfacing
After years of battling severe depression, a young man learns to love himself and accept love from o...
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Brace for Impact
When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist's brother dies in the crash of a plane she ...
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Being Julia
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...
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All the Lost Ones
In a dystopian and climate-ravaged future America torn apart by civil war, a group hiding in a remot...
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3
Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe hav...
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Still/Born
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with...
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Journey to the Planets
Creatures from space in search of a new home arrive at the Solar System and discuss each planet. An ...
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Cardinals
When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving...
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Dear Viola
Katie, a shy newspaper accountant submits a reply to a "Dear Viola" letter to the editor that she wo...
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
After moving to New Jersey, Lola bags a coveted role in a school play, which earns her the wrath of ...
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Beautiful Dreamers
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, h...
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Really Weird Tales
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson....
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadi...
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Isabelle
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and...
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9B
The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a nor...
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Liza Minnelli - Live from Radio City Music Hall
Liza's dynamic show made history by breaking the box-office record for Radio City. A true superstar,...
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Bright Angel
In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional pare...
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs
When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck...
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who we...
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House Arrest
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned,...
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Rare Birds
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfo...
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Duct Tape Forever
When an evil land baron's limo falls into a sinkhole outside Possum Lodge, lodge leader Red Green is...
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Full-Court Miracle
Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers o...
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The Day After Tomorrow
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmen...
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Bailey's Billion$
Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner,...
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Breakfast with Scot
The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are f...
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The Stone Angel
The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always rul...
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Year of the Carnivore
A girl has a crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed so she goes out to get more experience....
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Ice Girls
A figure skater is injured during a competition. A coach that hired her then helps her rehab her inj...
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Milton's Secret
11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world. With his parents constantly stressing ...
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Considering Love and Other Magic
In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber, but when t...
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The Christmas Club
Two busy strangers meet when they help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings. Thanks to f...
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Dead Husbands
Dr. Carter Elson is a man who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's possessions. When Ca...
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Christmas 9 to 5
Jennifer is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meanin...
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Level 16
The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” pr...
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Anything for Jackson
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their...
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Happy Place
"Welcome to the zoo," Samira is advised as she’s admitted to an in-patient care facility in the wake...
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The Broken Hearts Gallery
Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that s...
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Montreal Stories
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic Fren...
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Virtual Mom
Sometimes it takes something special to bring a mother and daughter together. For thirteen year-old ...
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Like a House on Fire
Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earl...
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Women Talking
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of ...
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The Care and Handling of Roses
A fondness for old movies brings together two fortysomethings, each happily married to other people....
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Much Ado About Nothing
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed s...
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Back to the Beanstalk
Jack Jr., son of Jack the Giant Killer, grows his own beanstalk in a quest to find his father and al...
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Love & Larceny
Besty Bigley, a notorious con-woman of the 1890s, alias Mrs. Chadwick, alias Pelvina de Vere, and a ...
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Gandahar
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by...
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