CARMEN AGUIRRE ACTING RESUME
Member of: UBCP, ACTRA, EQUITY
FILM
Bella Ciao! Lead Carolyn Combs/Commercial Drive Productions The Solutrean Principal Albert Hughes/Studio 8/Sony Pics. Entertainment Elysium Principal Neill Blomkamp/Sony Pictures Entertainment Quinceanera Supporting Glatzer/Westmoreland/Kitchen Sink Santa Clause II Principal Michael Lembeck/North Pole 2 Productions Low (short) Principal Mackenzie Gray/Naked Eye Films Secret (short) Lead Paula Montgomery/Monty's Reves Films My Boss's Daughter Principal David Zucker/Dimension Films The Shipment Principal Alex Wright/Promark/UK Ltd. Rat Race Principal Jerry Zucker/Paramount Best In Show Principal Christopher Guest/Dog Show Productions Convergence Principal Gavin Wilding/Convergence Productions XES Diner (short) Principal Michael Love/L'il Devils Sabor A Mi (short) Lead Claudia Morgado/Independent Love & Death (short) Lead Terence Anthony/Independent Unbound (short) Principal Claudia Morgado/Independent
FILM AWARDS
QUINCEANERA: 2006 Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival, winner of 2006 GLAAD Award, Alma Award, Independent Spirit Award, People's Choice Awards at film festivals around the world.
SABOR A MI: 1998 Best ForeignShort and Audience Award at the Creteil Women's Festival in France, 1997 Jury Award at the Northwest Film & Video Festival in Portland, Oregon.
UNBOUND: 1997 Best Foreign Short Award at the Creteil Women's Festival in France, 1996 Berlin Teddy, 1996 Best Women's Short at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Maryland, 1995 Jury Award at the Northwest Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.
Recipient of the 2011 Union of B.C. Performers' Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award.
TELEVISION
Supernatural Principal Phil Scriggia/Warner Bros. Television I am Victor Principal Jonas Pate/NBC Universal Television Endgame Series Regular Various/Thunderbird Films/Front Street Pictures V- “Red Rain” Principal Bryan Spicer/ABC A Trace of Danger (mow) Principal Terry Ingram/Traces of Danger Prods. Inc. Tin Man (mini series) Principal Nick Willing/Sci-Fi Channel Rock Star (pilot) Principal MTV Networks Holiday Open House (mow) Principal Gail Harvey/Lifetime Da Vinci's City Hall Principal Sturla Gunnarsson/CBC A Little Thing Called Murder (mow) Principal Richard Benjamin/Fox/Lifetime The L Word Recurring Rose Troche/Stopkewich/Showtime Kingdom Hospital Principal Craig Baxley/Pico Productions Phenomenon (mow) Principal Ken Olin/Touchstone/Disney Glory Days Principal Tony Bill/WBTV The Young Person's... Betrayal Principal John Rigg/WBTV Monk Principal Dean Parisot/USA Cable Da Vinci's Inquest Recurring Various/Da Vinci's Productions/CBC Cold Squad Principal Julie Stewart/Alliance Atlantis Point Blank Principal Vince Eagle/The Comedy Network Trapped (mow) Principal Deran Sarafian/USA Cable Higher Ground Recurring B. Spencer, M. Hastings/Cliffhanger Productions Outer Limits Principal Lou Diamond Phillips/Trilogy/Atlantis Super Dave's All Stars Principal Allan Blye/Allan & Bob Entertainment Inc.
THEATRE (Selected)
You Are It Lead Sherry Yoon/Boca del Lupo Vanya &Sonia & Masha & Spike Supporting Rachel Ditor/The Stanley Theatre Paradise Red Lead Marilo Nunez/Alameda Theatre/Cocodrilo Triste The Motherfucker With The Hat* Lead Ron Jenkins/Alberta Theatre Projects Blue Box Lead Brian Quirt/Nightswimming/Neworld/The Cultch White Rabbit/Red Rabbit Lead Itai Erdal/Elbow Theatre/The Cultch Visions of Vancouver Ensemble Richard Wolfe/Pi Theatre Ana Lead Michael Scholar Jr./November Theatre/Hive3 Cyrano de Bergerac Ensemble James Fagan Tait/The Stanley Theatre Banff playRites Colony Ensemble Various/Banff playRites Colony The Trigger Lead Katrina Dunn/Touchstone Theatre/Push Festival The Clean House Lead Bob White/Alberta Theatre Projects Cloud Tectonics Lead Bill Dow/Pi Theatre/Vancouver Playhouse 7/11 Supporting Blue Sphere Alliance (Los Angeles) The Suicide Ensemble Boca del Lupo/San Banquito (Mexico) Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands Lead The Electric Company/Vancouver Playhouse RubyCab 2000 Ensemble Katrina Dunn/Ruby Slippers The Body Says I am a Fiesta Ensemble Alisa Palmer/La Luna Productions Step Right Up Ensemble Kate Weiss/Theatre Terrific Dreams of Reality Lead James Fagan Tait/Firehall Theatre Patagonia Lead Katrina Dunn/Ruby Slippers Chile Con Carne Lead Guillermo Verdecchia/National Library, Chile Nymphomaniac Supporting Kico Gonzalez-Risso/Vancouver Fringe Inspector Sly's 2nd to Last Case Supporting Kico Gonzalez-Risso/Novus Theatre Maqui & The Southern Cross Lead Diane Roberts/Women in View Festival Open Couple Lead Eduardo Meneses/Fend Players
*Recipient of the 2014 Betty Mitchell Best Supporting Actress Award, nominated for the 2014 Calgary Theatre Critics' Awards for Best Supporting Actress. TRAINING
Graduate of the prestigious theatre training program, Studio 58, Langara College, Vancouver, Class of 1993. Recipient of the 1993 Anthony Golland Scholarship, awarded by A.C.T.R.A., during final year of studies. Recipient of the 2012 Langara College Outstanding Alumna Award.