Emily Piggford is a Canadian Screen Award nominated actress born in Victoria, British Columbia, based in Toronto, and of Japanese and British descent. Directly following university, Emily starred in the short film Frost, which premiered at TIFF and was nominated for Best Live Action Short at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards. Since then, Emily has recurred in two Netflix Original series (Hemlock Grove and The Umbrella Academy), appeared in Niels Arden Oplev’s remake of Flatliners (Columbia Pictures), recurred in series such as The Girlfriend Experience (STARZ), Killjoys (Space/SYFY), and lent her voice to several animated characters, including two in the hilarious CSA-nominated series, Gary and His Demons (CBC/VRV). Emily also produced and starred in D.W. Waterson’s award-winning digital series, That’s My DJ, which has screened at festivals across the globe. Her roots in theatre have taken her to Belgium, New York and Los Angeles with the revolutionary film noir play, Helen Lawrence. Emily holds a BFA in theatre from the University of Victoria and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s CBC Actors Conservatory. Look for Emily next in Hudson & Rex (CityTV) and starring in the action-fantasy series, WARIGAMI (CW/CBC).
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