Latest News'Sort Of' takes Members' Choice Series Ensemble honour at ACTRA Toronto awards

‘Sort Of’ takes Members’ Choice Series Ensemble honour at ACTRA Toronto awards

ACTRA Toronto handed out the 22nd ACTRA Awards on Monday night at the Palais Royale.

Sort Of

CBC and HBO Max series Sort Of took this year’s coveted Members’ Choice Series Ensemble Award, while the 2024 Award of Excellence was presented to veteran television actress Maria del Mar – known for her recurring roles in Blue Murder and Street Legal – by Maurice Dean Wint with a special introduction by Gil Bellows.

As previously-announced, the 2024 ACTRA Toronto Stunt Award was presented to Tom Farr, with The Marsh King’s Daughter winning the 2024 Stunt Ensemble Award.

Find the full list of performance winners here:

Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Female Voice

Maria Nash as Pinecone in Pinecone & Pony, “The Sturdy Stone” (First Generation Films, in association with DreamWorks Animation and Apple TV +)

Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Male Voice

Cory Doran as Balloonicus in Super Wish, “The Ballooniverse Pageant” (Discovery Kids Latin America, Nelvana, Corus, Redknot)

Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Female

Elizabeth Saunders as Sue in smokeBreak (Benchmark Pictures)

Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Male

Salvatore Antonio as Salomé in Slasher, “Everybody’s Darling” (Shaftesbury, Shudder, Hollywood Suite)

An online edition of the awards presentation will be available in the coming weeks.

ACTRA Toronto is the largest organization within ACTRA, representing more than 15,000 of Canada’s 28,000 professional performers working in English-language recorded media in Canada.


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