VALERIE BUHAGIARValerie Buhagiar is a Toronto based actor and filmmaker. At 18 years of age she toured China, the U.S. and Canada as a Puppeteer. She is a scholarship Graduate of George Brown’s Acting Program and a Dora Mavor Moore award winner. Valerie first gained international recognition playing the leading roles in Bruce McDonald’s Highway 61 and Roadkill. She has been a host for The Showcase Revue and has appeared as a guest star in various T.V. episodics and several Independent features. Valerie has been Associate Producer and one of the lead actors in the award-winning feature film Expecting. The Passion of Rita Camilleri was Valerie’s writing, directing and producing debut. The film was completed in the spring of 1993 and won several prizes. The Karlovy Vary film Festival held a retrospective of Valerie’s work as an actor and a filmmaker. Other credits include: One Day I Stood Still, L’amour L’amour Shut the Door Por Favor and BoomBoom Baby Wants to Go. She has directed a Public Service Announcement for Centre of Opportunity, Respect and Empowerment (C.O.R.E), a biography on Colin Linden for the Toronto Arts Awards and two Bravo!FACT shorts entitled Pictures from Home and Omneya – Wish. Valerie also directed the Festival of Lights, a parade full of vignettes set on rooftops of Toronto’s Kensington Market, as well as video images for Theatre Gargantua’s production of Nod. Valerie’s most recent film is Tell Us the Truth Josephine – a bitter immigrant story which won the best experimental film at the Female Eye Film Festival. Valerie continues to act in theatre and film. Most recently, she has played in the award winning theatre production of Scorched at The Tarragon theatre and the National Arts Centre. She played in One Light /Neptune theatre’s The Veil and won a Merritt Award nomination for best leading actress. Valerie has played the leading roles in the Feature Films A Winter Tale (Toronto) Sheltered Life (Vancouver), and Faros (Croatia). She will be part of the company touring Scorched in 2008/2009. Following that tour she will act in and be part of the team creating the theatre and film productions of A Winter Tale part 2 and along with that she will be in Burning Passion’s production of Crushing Beauty. Valerie Buhagiar is also starting on a new film project, Small, Stupid and Insignificant –what does it mean to be alive?
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