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Emily Hampshire at CFC Annual BBQ in 2012.
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Born | 1981/1982 (age 34–35) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1994–present |
Emily Hampshire is a Canadian film and television actress, known for her film roles as Angelina to Sean Astin's Michael in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl and Vivienne in the 2006 film Snow Cake, and for her television roles as Stevie Budd in the CBC comedy Schitt's Creek and as Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama 12 Monkeys.
Hampshire was born on c. 1982 in Montreal, Quebec.
In 2006 she married Matthew Smith, a former soccer player turned agent-in-training at William Morris talent agency. She moved to Los Angeles soon after filming Snow Cake.
Emily Hampshire is most widely known to international audiences for her role as Angelina to Sean Astin's Michael in the 1998 romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl, and Vivienne in the 2006 film Snow Cake, in which she starred opposite Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman.
Having been professionally active in the Canadian film and TV industry since 1996, Hampshire is also notable for her role as Siobhan Roy on Made in Canada. More recently, she has starred in the Canadian series This Space For Rent, Carl² and Northern Town. She also starred alongside Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong in the 2006 romantic comedy It's a Boy/Girl Thing, in which she played the character Chanel. She played Margaret in The Life Before This, a feature film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. She also voiced Starr/Nebula on the animated Canadian sitcom 6Teen. Most recently, she appeared in The Trotsky as Leon Trotsky's love interest Alexandra; in the Canadian indie film, Good Neighbours as Louise; and in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis as Jane Melman.