
Birthday:
03-22-1975
Deathday:
09-25-2018 (43 years)
Birthplace:
Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
Biography
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Karyn Elizabeth Dwyer, also known as Karen Dwyer or Karyn O'Dwyer (March 22, 1975 – September 25, 2018), was a Canadian actress. Her best known role is Maggie in the 1999 film Better Than Chocolate.
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Karyn Elizabeth Dwyer, also known as Karen Dwyer or Karyn O'Dwyer (March 22, 1975 – September 25, 2018), was a Canadian actress. Her best known role is Maggie in the 1999 film Better Than Chocolate.
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Better Than Chocolate
Act like Maggie
event1999 star_border 6
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Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.
Pony
Act like Pony
event2002
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Based on an excerpt from the award-winning play White Biting Dog by Judith Thompson. A young woman kills herself in an attempt to save her emotionally dysfunctional lover.
The Art of the Steal
Act like Ginger
event2013 star_border 6.2
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Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.
The Stalking of Laurie Show
Act like Jennifer
event2000 star_border 6
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A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
The Paperboy
Act like Brenda
event1994 star_border 4.4
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A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfect family" come alive.
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover
Act like Samantha
event1996 star_border 5
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When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Superstar
Act like Summer
event1999 star_border 5.3
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Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
Dead by Monday
Act like Christine
event2001 star_border 6
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Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.
The Right Way
Act like Amy
event2004 star_border 2
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Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?
The List
Act like Kathy Miller
event2000 star_border 4.8
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After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
Burning, Burning
Act like The Woman
event2016
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A woman seeks atonement from the people she meets on her walk across the city.
A Trip To The Island
event2015 star_border 3
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Bad decisions and troubled relationships bleed over from real life into a writer's new screenplay.
End of Summer
Act like Jenny Malone
event1997 star_border 4.2
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An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward (Amy Locane) and a young maid (Karen Dwyer).
Cheaters
Act like Angela Lam
event2000 star_border 6.3
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In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Ursa Major
Act like Jodie
event1997
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Life. Love. Glow-in-the-dark stars.
Monster Mountain
Act like Carrie
event2012 star_border 8
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When a young boy becomes lost on a deadly mountain, he soon finds himself battling mother nature and an evil monster in order to get home to his mom.
The Life Before This
Act like Teenage Girl
event1999 star_border 4.3
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Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Lethal Tender
Act like Sparky
event1997 star_border 3.8
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Bad guys are poisoning drinking water, and there is only one man who can stop them, Jeff Fahey.
Down the Road
Act like Joanne
event1990
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A project of the Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Newfoundland and Labrador, aimed at encouraging young women to consider non-traditional careers.
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Act like Ilana (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.5
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Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
Due South
Act like Mary Ann (2 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.6
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Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
(2 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.9
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Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.
Class of '96
Act like Julia (2 ep.)
event1993 star_border 5
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Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
This Is Wonderland
Act like Tammy (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 9
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Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
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