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  Cara Pifko Photos - Cara Pifko News - Cara Pifko Information
Jane meets her perfect match, and has a one night stand, however it turns into a proposal of marriage.
Tell the world what you think of Cara Pifko, write a review for this person.
The show revolves around Alice De Raey (Cara Pifko, "Our Hero"), a young criminal lawyer thrown into a justice system bursting at the seams.
www.tv.com /cara-pifko/person/41567/summary.html   (239 words)

  
  Cara Pifko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cara Pifko, right, in a promotional photo for the 2004-05 season of This is Wonderland.
Cara Pifko (born March 15, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Pifko then landed the lead role in the legal drama This is Wonderland, which garnered her a Gemini Award nomination for best actress.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cara_Pifko   (147 words)

  
 This kid stays in the picture by Michael Posner
Cara Pifko was singing on television at age 7.
The arc of Pifko's career curve is even more astonishing when you consider that she is barely five years out of Montreal's National Theatre School.
Her appetite piqued, Pifko majored in drama at Earl Haig, a performing-arts high school in Toronto, and after graduation auditioned successfully for the NTS.
www.friends.ca /print/News/Friends_News/archives/articles01120402.asp   (1206 words)

  
 CBC Television Evening Host - Cara Pifko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cara Pifko stars in the original series This is Wonderland, airing Tuesdays at 9pm on CBC Television.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Pifko is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
In early 2004, Pifko co-starred in the acclaimed CBC Television mini-series Human Cargo.
www.cbc.ca /television/host_pifko_cara.html   (348 words)

  
 CBC Television - Human Cargo
Cara Pifko is one of the country's most engaging young actors.
Cara's voice has been a part of a number of CBC radio plays as well as animated series such as Angela Anaconda and Miss Spider.
This will be a critical winter for Cara Pifko who is not only featured in Human Cargo but also stars in the George Walker-Bernard Zukerman series Wonderland, a dark comic drama in which Pifko plays a young legal aid lawyer learning the ropes.
www.cbc.ca /humancargo/stars_pifko.html   (285 words)

  
 Allpop.com - A product of CANOE - SHOW BIZ: Ricky Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cara Pifko, who plays the wacky and adventurous Kale, thinks her character's on-screen ability to carry through with her occasionally embarrassing actions (like the salad-stomping incident) has struck a chord with viewers.
Cara says "Our Hero" has been compared to a "young 'Ally McBeal'" or a "funny 'My So Called Life'", but she feels the element that separates the Canadian series from soapy WB shows is the chances the writers take with Kale, her friends, and their issues.
As a crew member motions to Cara that the cameras are about to roll on another part of the set, she whispers one final message about the show.
www.nflcanada.com /AllPopTVO/ourhero.html   (1259 words)

  
 CBC Television - Behind the Scenes of This Is Wonderland: Season Two
Cara Pifko stars as Alice De Raey in This Is Wonderland.
Cara Pifko talks about how her character, Alice, has matured since the first season.
Cara Pifko, like her character Alice, has also matured since season one.
origin.www.cbc.ca /television/behindthescenes_wonderland.html   (688 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Cara Pifko''' (born March 15, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canada Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She started acting at a young age and worked all through the nineties, but it was in 2000 that she landed her first starring role, in the series '' Our Hero '' which was aimed at young teens.
Pifko then landed the lead role in the legal drama '' This is Wonderland '', which garnered her a Gemini Award nomination for best actress.
www.mauspfeil.net /Cara_Pifko.html   (189 words)

  
 Our Public Airwaves
Pifko visited the real courts as part of her research and says that's what it's really like.
Pifko says that after returning to the set, it was clear to her the script writers had seen what she'd seen.
But Pifko emphasizes that after the first few episodes, the series will settle down and not leave Alice in her confused, spinning newbie mode because that would get boring quickly.
www.ondespubliques.ca /index_f.php?page=96140475   (623 words)

  
 Popjournalism :: Interviews :: This is Wonderland's Cara Pifko
Today is an emotional day for actress Cara Pifko.
As the lead in This is Wonderland, Pifko has finally found her breakout role as lawyer Alice De Raey.
It's a role that requires Pifko to work with both humour and heartbreaking drama.
www.popjournalism.ca /pop/features/2005/00106carapifko.shtml   (384 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Program Guide - Cara Pifko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cara Pifko began her career at the ripe old age of 7 on legendary trio Sharon, Lois and Bram's The Elephant Show.
The versatile young actress starred in the CBC series, Our Hero, for which she received a 1999 Canadian Comedy Award nomination, and was seen in last year's CBC mini-series Human Cargo where she played the disillusioned Helen Wade', daughter of an ambitious politician portrayed by Kate Nelligan.
Cara's voice has been a part of a number of CBC radio plays as well as animations such as Angela Anaconda and Miss Spider.
cbc.ca /programguide/personality/index.jsp?personality=Pifko,Cara&...   (213 words)

  
 Popjournalism :: Interviews :: This is Wonderland's Cara Pifko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As the lead in This is Wonderland, Pifko has finally found her breakout role as lawyer Alice De Raey.
It's a role that requires Pifko to work with both humour and heartbreaking drama.
At just 28 years old, Pifko is already a Canadian television veteran, having appeared on Road to Avonlea, Our Hero and the Gemini Award winning mini-series Human Cargo.
www.popjournalism.com /pop/interviews/200501/00105carapifko.shtml   (377 words)

  
 Our Public Airwaves - This Is Wonderland
This Is Wonderland follows the life of Alice De Raey (Pifko), a young, green criminal lawyer thrown into a justice system that seems perpetually on the verge of imploding.
Pifko, a 27-year-old actor who grew up in the Toronto suburb of North York, Ont., says she's hopeful the series will break out -- but is cautiously optimistic.
It's an interesting contrast you just don't see very often," says Pifko, who played the lead in the CBC series Our Hero, about a teenage girl who runs her own 'zine, and in January will star as the left-wing lesbian daughter of Kate Nelligan in the CBC drama, Human Cargo.
www.publicairwaves.ca /index.php?page=86020425   (1547 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cara Pifko as Rachel and William Webster as Nathan in Nathan the Wise, a mesmerizing tale set in Jerusalem during the Crusades.
Cara Pifko plays the lead role in CBC-TV’s This Is Wonderland, but in Nathan the Wise she foregoes the spotlight as Rachel.
Nathan the Wise is a didactic poem in the purest sense.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=3833   (506 words)

  
 Chanukah with Partiers
The gathering was composed of: Esther Pifko, Daniel Pifko, Carolyn Malestic; Hal Berman; Ron Vida, Heather Walters, Hannah and Sophie Walters-Vida; and the web-master.
Pifko, as she watched us enjoy her daughter's work was at least as rewarding as the show itself.
Pifko, and Heather, listen as Sophie describes the hard day of eating and sleeping she just completed.
www.jberman.com /People/chanukah2000/chanukah2000.htm   (527 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! - New Hero for CBC
Fresh-faced Pifko stars as 17-year-old Kale Stiglic, a high-school student who sorts it all out in her very own 'zine.
For this show, Pifko had to stick her head into an animation stand in order to capture the photocopy-like look of the opening titles.
Pifko says she has never photocopied herself before.
jam.canoe.ca /Television/TV_Shows/O/Our_Hero/2000/10/03/pf-733626.html   (545 words)

  
 Actors - Cara Pifko
Cara Pifko (born March 15, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She started acting at a young age and worked all through the nineties, but it was in 2000 that she landed her first starring role, in the series Our Hero which was aimed at young teens.
Pifko then landed the lead role in the legal drama This is Wonderland, which garnered her a Gemini Award in 2005 for best actress.
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Cara_Pifko.html   (197 words)

  
 Popjournalism :: Interviews :: Meet Cara Pifko
It's an intense on-screen moment, one that you probably wouldn't anticipate being performed by a former child actor from Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Show.
Despite her increasing profile as an actress, Pifko says she still gets mistaken for Flashdance's Jennifer Beals.
To reward herself after moments like that, Pifko and her husband — writer and director Gareth Bennett — have taken to renovating their gaming den "to make it look like a movie theatre." They’re both huge video game enthusiasts and own almost every gaming system imaginable.
www.popjournalism.ca /pop/features/2005/00109carapifko.shtml   (367 words)

  
 NOW Magazine Online Edition:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
That roar of approval you heard from the Japan Foundation last weekend was the audience response to the fiery bellows of film monster Godzilla, with his radioactive breath and edifice-smashing tail.
In a reading of Yasuhiko Ohashi's Godzilla, directed by Susan Doyon and Jim Millan, Damien Atkins played Godzilla as a wide-eyed, soft-spoken suitor of the teenage Yayoi (Cara Pifko), whose family disapproves of her choice of mate and would rather she settled down with a well-paid Sony employee.
Pifko, wearing Mary Janes and a red ribbon in her hair, made an adamant young lover.
www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2002-01-24/stage_scenes_p.html   (351 words)

  
 This Is Wonderland Forum - CARA PIFKO as Alice De Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cara Pifko should have received a Gemini for her outstanding work in this series.
The first few episodes of Season 1, Alice was unsure of herself although you could sense she had a determination to succeed.
I knew I had seen Cara Pifko before but couldn't place her.
www.thisiswonderland.com /forum/printthread.php?t=32   (698 words)

  
 Popjournalism :: Interviews :: Meet Cara Pifko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the penultimate episode, a bi-polar man outside a store assaults Pifko's character Alice De Raey.
Despite her increasing profile as an actress, Pifko says she still gets mistaken for Flashdance 's Jennifer Beals.
To reward herself after moments like that, Pifko and her husband — writer and director Gareth Bennett — have taken to renovating their gaming den "to make it look like a movie theatre." They’re both huge video game enthusiasts and own almost every gaming system imaginable.
www.popjournalism.com /pop/interviews/200501/00108carapifko.shtml   (359 words)

  
 Large Print Reviews - A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews - Audio Book Review
This book is narrated by Cara Pifko and it has a running time of about four hours.
Nomi Nickel is sixteen-years-old, and a rebel who dreams of escaping the religious conformity of her community and moving to New York City's East Village.
In addition, Pifko's narration of the story further highlights Nomi's energy and promise, bringing this unlikely heroine vibrantly to life.
www.largeprintreviews.com /toews.html   (711 words)

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