Jackie Torrens is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 writer, actor, and journalist, best known for her CBC radio and television appearances, and for acting roles in the television series Made in Canada

Made in Canada

Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....

and Robson Arms

Robson Arms

Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications....

. She is the sister of actor and comedian Jonathan Torrens

Jonathan Torrens

Jonathan Ormond Torrens is a Canadian actor and television personality best known for his co-hosting of Street Cents, his talk show Jonovision, and his role as "J-Roc" in the popular Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys...

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Her other film and television roles have included Marion Bridge, The Wild Dogs

The Wild Dogs

- Plot :Set in the city of Bucharest, Romania, the action is confined to a week in the life of the various characters. Alberta Watson plays the bored wife of a diplomat. Director and screenwriter Thom Fitzgerald plays a Canadian pornographer...

, Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion is a two-part miniseries produced in 2003 by CBC Television. It presents a fictionalized version of the Halifax Explosion, a 1917 catastrophe that destroyed much of the city of Halifax. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie...

and Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making.

She is also a playwright, whose plays include Fables, Georama and Live! Nude! Animal!, as well as a writer for the television series Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...

and Olliver's Adventures

Olliver's Adventures

Olliver's Adventures is an animated television show that aired on Teletoon and with a variety of foreign broadcasters, including ABC in Australia...

and "TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens".

Torrens frequently contributes contributes pieces and documentaries to, and guest hosts on, CBC radio programs in Nova Scotia.

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