Chapelle Jaffe is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for the television film One Night Stand,Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . and receiving a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for The Amateur."Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.
Jaffe also was in the cast of the original production of One Night Stand at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
In 1977, Jaffe's acting in Red Emma brought her a nomination for an ACTRA Award for the best acting performance in TV.
She was the editor of the first edition of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Who's Who in Canadian Film and Television directory."'Editor by day, killer by night'". The Globe and Mail, January 28, 1986.
Jaffe also worked in the administrative dimension of entertainment, including being executive director of Vancouver's New Play Festival and Playwrights Theatre Centre.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes1975MeKathy1977Who Has Seen the WindMaggie O'Connal1980Valerie Martinelli1981Silence of the NorthThe Red-Headed Lady1981Gretchen1983Nurse1985Terminal ChoiceMrs. Dodson1986ConfidentialAmelia1989MillenniumCouncil Member - Stockholm1990Defy GravityMary Fiddich2002Fifty-FiftyMargaretShort2004Madame Helga
Television Year Title Role Notes1974PerformanceEmma GoldmanEpisode "Red Emma"1978One Night StandDaisyTV film1981JanetTV film1983American PlayhouseDjamillaEpisode: "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"1985, 1988Night HeatArlene Elizabeth, Mrs. MetcalfeEpisodes: "Innocents", "Forgive Me Father"1988DiamondsEpisode: "Where There's a Will"1988Friday the 13th: The SeriesTanya SloaneEpisode: "Master of Disguise"1988, 1990Danger BayNoreenEpisodes: "The Only Way Down Is Up", "Looking Back"1989Where the Spirit LivesMiss ApplebyTV film1989–1992E.N.G.Dr. ForbesEpisodes: "Pilot: Parts 1 & 2", "Payment in Kind", "Harvest"1991Drop Dead GorgeousMrs. LewinTV film1991Mark Twain and MeSarah HardwigTV film1992Judy JensenTV film1993Street LegalFrances DoneffEpisode: "Forgiveness"1994Sin & RedemptionEmma SimmsTV film1994MadisonLucyEpisode: "Playing Solitaire"1995Harrison BergeronHead House LadyTV film1996Judge HarpeTV film1996SlidersGladysEpisode: "El Sid"1996ReckoningMadame DurandTV film1996Poltergeist: The LegacyMiss ClarkEpisode: "Doppelganger"1998Cold SquadMyra FitchEpisode: "Jane Klosky"1998–99Dr. PatouEpisodes: "The Red and the Black", "Two Fathers"2001AndromedaConstanza StarkEpisode: "Forced Perspective"2004This Is WonderlandEpisode: "1.6"2004Catherine CrossTV miniseries2004Sue Thomas: F.B.EyeClerkEpisode: "The Actor"2007Sister BeatriceEpisode: "Rules of Engagement"2007Instant StarCharity WomanEpisode: "Heart of Gold"2009FlashpointMrs. HillEpisode: "Perfect Storm"2010Lost GirlMarthaEpisode: "ArachnoFaebia"2010Being EricaJoyce FitzpatrickEpisodes: "The Rabbit Hole", "Being Adam", "Adam's Family"2014Wendy ThomasTV film
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