Shelley Thompson
Actress

Shelley Thompson Net Worth

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Shelley Thompson is an award-winning actress, writer, and producer. She has trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the UK, the Canadian Film Centre, and was part of the Women in the Director's Chair program. Her acting credits include the National Theatre in the UK, the Shaw Festival, and the cult film Labyrinth with David Bowie. She has won Geminis and ACTRAs for her film and television performances, and Dora and Merritt awards for her stage work. She has also written and directed short films, and is currently developing a play for Northern Broadsides Theatre in the UK. Thompson is based in Halifax/Dartmouth and is a champion of LGBTQ issues.
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Who is it? Actress, Writer, Producer

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

2010

Her poetry has been a finalist in the Atlantic Writing Competition, and has appeared in literary journals Toward the Light and Papirmasse, and on the CBC website. Short stories have been included in anthologies and broadcast in collaboration with The Blue Engine String Quartet on CBC Radio - Christmas 2010 and 2011.

2012

Since 2012, she's been shifting focus to stage and screenwriting and directing. Her plays include plays A Kind of Faith (produced 2004) Leaving Wonderland (Premiered Halifax, 2015 ), children’s plays Bluenose Billy (2006, co-written with Sheldon Currie and Griffen Prize-winning poet Anne Simpson), Belinda the Bicycle Witch (2008), Lost and Found (2009), ...And How Are We Today (co-written with poet Anne Simpson).

2013

Awards include: ACTRA Maritimes winner for (short) Two Penny Road-Kill 2013, Best Supporting Actress, LA’s Love Unlimited Festival, 2011 for (short) WAKE, and Gemini, 2008, Best Ensemble, as Barb Lahey, for Trailer Park Boys. Merritt Award- Best Actress in a Leading Role- for Glorious. Several Stage nominations for: Humble Boy – Flora, Criminal Genius – Shirley, Tamara (Dora) – Aelis.

2015

Presently shifting to writing/directing for film, she has just finished her first narrative short, DAWG (Festivals include the Atlantic Film Festival, The San Diego International Kids Film Festival, Nickle Film festival NFL and more....) Presently: working on features (Dawn Her Dad and the Tractor, Billy, Dash and Dawg, and The Benefit. In 2015 she was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre, Toronto, as a Screenwriter, and in 2016 was invited to be one of eight Women In the Directors Chair (2017).

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