Anna-Marie Sutherland is a Toronto born and Hamilton based actress and model with 30+ years experience. She returned to acting in 2023 with performances on both stage and screen, ending the year with the lead role of 'Donna' in Discovery Channel’s "Fear Thy Neighbour", The independent film "Apnea" premiered at the 2024 Blood in the Snow Film Festival and the film "Outcasted" continues to do very well on the international film festival circuit with several nominations and awards. TV movie "Strike of Love" is streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple TV, and the film "Frequency of Fear" screened at An Afternoon of Horror for a Good Cause; "ZO1A" has premiered as a finalist at the Siné 48 hour Film Challenge and screened at the 2025 Philippine Festival. The independent film "We're All Haunted Here" has been completed and begins its international film festival journey this fall as the Official Selection at the Fright Nights Austria, Toronto Indie Horror Festival, and the Spooky Empire Horror Festival in the U.S.A.

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Anna-Marie recently shot a leading role in True Crime Network's TV series "How NOT to Hire a Hitman", it will be streaming on Super Channel in Canada. The independent films "Earned" and "The Passage of Natasha May", are both in post production. and the proof of concept short film for "Dear Grandpa, It's Michael" is being made into a feature film, it is in preproduction. She has also worked on verticals and web series for "Paradigm Studios", "Actors Anonymous Hotline", and recurring roles for "Eskape Studios".

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Anna-Marie continues to support and learn from film students with over 40 productions. Recently she has filmed the award winning "Outcasted", "Grocery List", "Milo Stops Moving", and "Goodbye, Piccadilly" for TMU, "Quiet Redemption", "The Only Child", "Chasing Echoes" and "The Backstage" for Humber, "Dreaming David" for University of Toronto, "STAR04" for Toronto Film School, "Holding on to You" for Sheridan and "Mother Grievance" for York University. 

Anna-Marie is best known for portraying a heavenly Bulgarian Nurse in Academy Award winning feature film "The Barbarian Invasions". Other past roles include a proper yet feral 'Mother' in YTV series "Seriously Weird", an eccentric 'Gretal Sass' in mockumentary feature film "Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser" and in award winning short films "Fillidor" as an awakening muse and in "The King of Siam" as an oppressed wife.

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She began her career as an international model, living and working in over a dozen countries, she then segued into acting through theatre. Favourite past stage roles include 'Shelby' in Steel Magnolias, 'Florence Unger' in The Odd Couple (Female Version), and 'Mrs. Potiphar' in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She has also appeared at The Toronto Fringe Festival and in The Vagina Monologues. Most recently, Anna-Marie performed in The Hungry Ones; A Theatre of the Oppressed Forum.

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Anna-Marie has worked on thousands of sets internationally, across a variety of media, including film, television, theatre, web series, commercials, live appearances, print and runway. She has an experienced understanding of professional set acumen and technical logistics.. She is passionately dedicated to the craft and continuously trains to prepare herself for her next adventure in the art of storytelling with a disciplined holistic practice.

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