Nicole Stamp is a Canadian television director, actress, filmmaker, writer and television host.

Career Stamp works as a writer, director, actress, and TV host. Her work has been nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards, in four different categories - as a director, writer, host, and series creator.

Currently, Stamp is the series creator, co-executive producer, writer, and host of Media Stamped, a new show teaching media literacy to children. Produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment for Telus Optik, Media Stamped won the Japan Prize Award of Honour and the Prix Jeunesse International Theme Prize, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Teens/Tweens Script, a Youth Media Alliance Award, and three Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Series and Best Host.

Stamp started her career at TVOntario, where she co-hosted six seasons of TVOntario's afternoon block, The SPACE. Stamp also hosted the Ontario Championships of Reach For The Top from 2004 until 2009. She also wrote the series EnviroGirl, in which she played the title character, an educational superhero. TVOntario won the "Best Interactive" Gemini Award for the series Time Trackers, a historical children's series hosted by Stamp in which she also voiced various animated characters. Stamp also co-hosted TVOntario's Word Wizard, which was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Interactive show. In total TVOntario has won two Geminis among six nominations for series in which Stamp hosted or performed lead roles.

Stamp improvised for two seasons with The Second City's Canadian National Touring Company. Stamp has directed and hosted hundreds of red carpet talent interviews at the Toronto International Film Festival for Alliance FilmsArchived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: and Tribute Media.

Stamp's voiceover work includes playing Police Cadet Sanders in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race. She has also voiced characters for the video game company Ubisoft, and she voiced several characters in the TIFF short animated film Interregnum,Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: about Rene Carmille, a Frenchman who bravely saved thousands of people from the Nazis. She voices the conjoined snakes Laziel and Raziel in the Cartoon Network pilot The Wonderful Wingits.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:

As a writer, Stamp's essays have been published by CNN and in the National Post. She created a critically acclaimed one-woman show, BETTER PARTS, which garnered 5 N's from NOW Magazine and was called "intoxicatingly written and joyously performed" by The Globe and Mail. Stamp has also been an invited member of the prestigious Playwrights' Unit at the Tarragon Theatre and the Theatre Passe Muraille Playwrights' Collective.

As an actress, Stamp is globally known for her portrayal of Melanippe "Mel" Callis in the Canadian Screen Award-winning webseries Carmilla, which has over 70 million views worldwide, as well as for her portrayal of Stamper on the Canadian Screen Award-winning webseries Tactical Girls.

In 2016, Stamp directed and co-hosted Inside Between, the digital aftershow for the City/Netflix drama, Between.Unknown Title In 2017, Stamp reprised her role as Melanippe "Mel" Callis in the feature film The Carmilla Movie, set five years after the end of the acclaimed webseries. In 2020, Stamp appeared in several episodes of the Netflix series Locke & Key as Nurse Ruth.

Stamp is a Toronto native who attended Richview Collegiate Institute and holds an Honours' Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre and English from the University of Toronto.

Filmography

Shows +ShowRoleYearsReach for the TopHost2004–2009Razzberry Jazzberry JamBillie the Guitar2008–2011Dan for MayorKaren2011 The Next StepLisa Thompson2013RemedyScrub Nurse / O.R. Nurse2014Odd SquadPhyllis / Anne the Crossing Guard2014–2016Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous RaceCadet Sanders2015 CarmillaMelanippe "Mel" Callis2015–2016Tactical GirlsStamper2016–2018 The ZhuZhusWhendy Sails2016–2017In ContemptLisa2018 The ExpanseMedical Tech2018Rusty RivetsTeacher Betty2018–2020Doomsday BrothersAna / Humunga2020Elinor Wonders WhyMs. Llama2020–presentLocke & KeyNurse Ruth2020–2021SeeOnica2021Media StampedSeries Creator, Writer, Host2024

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result Link 2026Prix Jeunesse International Theme Prize ‘’Media Stamped’’ 2025Japan Prize AWARD OF HONOR, Primary Age Division ‘’Media Stamped’’ 202513th Canadian Screen Awards BEST HOST, Factual / Reality / Competition ‘’Media Stamped’’ 202513th Canadian Screen Awards BEST SERIES, Non-Fiction Children’s or Youth ‘’Media Stamped’’ 2025Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards BEST WRITING, Teens & Tweens ‘’Media Stamped’’ 202210th Canadian Screen Awards BEST DIRECTION, Children’s or Youth ‘’Lockdown 110: The Confession’’ 202210th Canadian Screen Awards BEST WRITING, Children’s or Youth ‘’Lockdown 111: Guilty Until Proven Innocent’’ 20219th Canadian Screen Awards BEST WRITING, Web Program or Series ‘’Lockdown 109: Social Togetherness’’ 2021Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards BEST WRITING, Teens & Tweens ‘’Lockdown 109: Social Togetherness’’

References

External links

Nicole Stamp's official website Nicole Stamp on YouTube