Liane Balaban at the 2nd Annual Women In Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party. Private Residence, Bel Air, CA. 02-20-09

RECENT CREDITS
Last Chance Harvey (FILM)  Dec. 25, 2008
Definitely, Maybe (FILM)  Feb. 14, 2008
Happy Here and Now (FILM)  Dec. 14, 2005
Eternal (FILM)  Aug. 26, 2005
Seven Times Lucky (FILM)  Mar. 25, 2005

BIOGRAPHY
With an exotically beautiful appearance attributable to her Canadian mother and Uzbekistani-Jewish father, brunette actress Liane Balaban was born in North York, Ontario in 1980, and grew up in nearby Willowdale, where....
With an exotically beautiful appearance attributable to her Canadian mother and Uzbekistani-Jewish father, brunette actress Liane Balaban was born in North York, Ontario in 1980, and grew up in nearby Willowdale, where her parents worked as a medical secretary and a real estate agent. Balaban never seriously intended to become an actress, but a chance encounter with Canuck producer Julia Sereny (April One) - who reportedly lived in the same neighborhood as Liane's aunt and uncle, and became acquainted with the young woman via holiday dinners - changed all that. Sereny invited Sereny to audition for the low-budget drama The New Waterford Girl (1999), to be directed by Allan Moyle (Pump up the Volume). She not only landed the lead role of doe-eyed teenager Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, in that film but received a Special Jury Congratulation at the Toronto Film Festival and snagged a nomination at the annual Canadian Comedy Awards. Those successes set the young woman on the path to stardom, and though she spend her first several years as a thespian in mostly Canadian efforts - such as the 2001 feature After the Harvest and the 2006 miniseries Above and Beyond - she eventually began to branch out into Hollywood roles, commencing in 2008 with a turn as the bride-to-be daughter of Dustin Hoffman in the low-key romantic drama Last Chance Harvey (2008) and a small supporting turn in the Ryan Reynolds-Isla Fisher romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe (2008).

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide


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