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Jennifer Lines
Canadian theatre and television actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jennifer Lines is a Canadian theatre and television actress.

Lines graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Victoria.[1] She has starred in productions at the Arts Club Theatre,[2][3] Bard on the Beach,[4][5] Vancouver Playhouse[6] and the Belfry Theatre. She has played in Beyond Eden, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, A Little Night Music and Hello Dolly at the Vancouver Playhouse.[1] Her stage credits for the Art Club include It's a Wonderful Life, The Real Thing, Here on the Flight Path and Sylvia.[1]
Lines has received several Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations. She was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award in 2014 for the category of Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Small Theatre for her performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway? staged by Realwheels Theatre.[7] Lines has been fascinated by Shakespeare's plays from an early age.[8]
Lines was praised by the Globe and Mail for her gender-bending portrayal of Horatio in the Bard on the Beach's 2013 staging of Hamlet.[9] The Georgia Straight has praised Lines for both her technical skill and for being "emotionally present" as an actress.[10] The Province calls Lines' performance "classic."[11] Vancouver Sun calls Lines one of "Vancouver's brightest stars of the theatre."[12]
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Selected stage credits
- Simone in Après Moi, staged by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (2015).[13]
- Horatio in Hamlet, staged by Bard on the Beach (2013).[9]
- Olivia in Twelfth Night, staged by Bard on the Beach (2013).[10]
- Mary Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, staged by Arts Club Theatre (2012).[11]
- Mimi in Mimi or a Poisoner's Comedy, staged by Touchstone Theatre (2010).[14]
- Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (2010).[15]
- Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, staged by Bard on the Beach (2010).[16]
- Luciana in A Comedy of Errors, staged by Bard on the Beach (2009).[17]
- Ariel in The Tempest, staged by Bard on the Beach (2008).[18]
- Annie in The Real Thing, staged by StoppardFest (2007).[19]
- Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, staged by Bard on the Beach (2006).[20]
- Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, staged by Bard on the Beach (2005).[21]
- Mistress Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, staged by Bard on the Beach (2004).[22]
- Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (2004).[23]
- Adriana in A Comedy of Errors, staged by Bard on the Beach (2003).[24]
- Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, staged by Bard on the Beach (2003).[25]
- Katherine in Henry V, staged by Bard on the Beach (2002).[26]
- Maria in Twelfth Night, staged by Bard on the Beach (2002).[27]
- Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, staged by Bard on the Beach.[28]
- Maria in Love's Labour's Lost, staged by Bard on the Beach (1997).[29]
- Mopsa in The Winter's Tale, staged by Bard on the Beach (1997).[30]
- Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (1996).[31]
- Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, staged by Bard on the Beach (1996).[32]
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