Deragh Campbell

Acting

Deragh Campbell

Born 1989-05-04 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deragh Campbell (born May 4, 1989) is a Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter based in Toronto. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Campbell has won several accolades for her work, including the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2019 and Best Actress in a Canadian Film from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2021. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, including Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), and Point and Line to Plane (2020), have screened at film festivals internationally. She has also featured in two of Kazik Radwanski's feature films: How Heavy This Hammer (2015) and Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Possessor poster
6.4

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

Possessor

2020

You Can Live Forever poster
7.0

When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

You Can Live Forever

2023

Project Ithaca poster
5.9

Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped aboard an alien spaceship that seems to be harnessing their terror to power the ship. They begin to understand that these species have been abducting humans for decades and possibly centuries.

Project Ithaca

2019

Matt and Mara poster
6.4

Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, she runs into Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, when he wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by their shared interests, the two gradually become closer. When Mara’s husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive her to an out-of-town conference, Matt accompanies Mara on the trip instead. Along the way, the tension surrounding their undefined relationship slowly grows.

Matt and Mara

2024

Stinking Heaven poster
4.6

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.

Stinking Heaven

2015

Mobile Homes poster
5.8

In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

Mobile Homes

2017

The Other Half poster
6.1

A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.

The Other Half

2016

No artwork available
6.0

Seven short visions, all varying in approach, shape, and scale, form this no-budget omnibus project on the subject of Christmas: the love, friendship and kinship the holiday holds and continues to inspire.

Merry Christmas

2016

O, Brazen Age poster
NR

Part coming-of-age story, part art-cinema meditation on photography, souvenirs, and collections, O, Brazen Age creates a tender and haunting portrait of friendship and faith in the 21st century.

O, Brazen Age

2015

Person to Person poster
7.0

Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.

Person to Person

2014

I Used to Be Darker poster
5.7

When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby, just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, looking for love and figuring out where to find it next.

I Used to Be Darker

2013

It's Hard To Be Human poster
NR

Two bodies lying in the road. A hauntingly sterile emergency room. A girl crying out for her Father: God. One by one, all of the players in her life, angels and devils alike, emerge and illuminate how she ended up in this liminal consciousness between life and death. It is both in this consciousness and her previous existence that she begins to understand why God had forsaken her and how she can be redeemed. Dreamlike, visceral, and at times surreal, It's Hard to Be Human elegantly poses the age-old questions of what it means to be human and how to have a connection with the Divine in a fallibly human world.

It's Hard To Be Human

2018

All Shook Up poster
NR

A man tries to cancel his credit card after being mugged.

All Shook Up

2017

Chubby poster
NR

A ten year old girl struggles with the residual trauma of her sexual abuse.

Chubby

2019

Anne at 13,000 Ft. poster
5.9

Anne hasn't been the same since the jump. While skydiving for her best friend Sarah's bachelorette party, the 27-year-old felt focused, free, above it all. Back on the ground, the pressures of her daily life threaten to overwhelm her.

Anne at 13,000 Ft.

2021

Beach Week poster
NR

Five friends rent the beach house that last year housed fifteen. On the last day there, Natalie awakes to find her best friend Laure has gone missing – but as she goes on the search, and as mysterious omens reveal themselves, Natalie suddenly becomes terrified of Laure’s return

Beach Week

2015

Laberint Sequences poster
5.7

Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates.

Laberint Sequences

2023

I Don't Know Who You Are poster
6.5

Benjamin, a working class gay man living in Toronto, struggles to obtain expensive healthcare after being assaulted by a stranger.

I Don't Know Who You Are

2024

Jonny Come Lately poster
NR

A short film about a young woman trying to find a way out of an abusive relationship.

Jonny Come Lately

2015

An Evening Song (for Three Voices) poster
NR

1939, in the Midwest: an impeded author, her pulp-writer husband and their pious maid. A spellbinding plunge into their intertwined thoughts, memories and visions.

An Evening Song (for Three Voices)

2026

Let Your Heart Be Light poster
NR

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

Let Your Heart Be Light

2016

Veslemøy's Song poster
6.7

A young woman delves into the archives of the New York Public Library in search of a rare recording produced in 1909 titled “Veslemøy's Song”.

Veslemøy's Song

2018

Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog poster
6.5

The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.

Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog

2017

In Search of Gladys Glover poster
NR

A diary-cum-thriller-cum comedy-cum-horror film shot on an iPhone (RIP BlackBerry!) for zero dollars with friends, IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER was born in the darkness of winter in a post-pandemic 2022 after a fateful 35mm screening of George Cukor’s NYC classic IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954). Indebted to the spirits of Larry Cohen, Anne Charlotte Robertson, and New York City herself, IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER is a time-shifting journey about the disorienting feeling of being in the city the past few years. It’s a movie for everyone who wakes up each day and continues to put one foot in front of other—laughing often, crying often, watching as many beautiful films and sports games as possible, aimlessly walking the city streets alone, making art, hanging with good friends—but ultimately doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

In Search of Gladys Glover

2024

Behind the camera

Stinking Heaven poster
4.6

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.

Stinking Heaven

2015

No artwork available
6.0

Seven short visions, all varying in approach, shape, and scale, form this no-budget omnibus project on the subject of Christmas: the love, friendship and kinship the holiday holds and continues to inspire.

Merry Christmas

2016

Let Your Heart Be Light poster
NR

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

Let Your Heart Be Light

2016

Let Your Heart Be Light poster
NR

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

Let Your Heart Be Light

2016

Measures for a Funeral poster
6.3

Follows a young woman named Audrey Benac on a research odyssey of ghostly possession in which she endeavours to restore the legacy of the forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.

Measures for a Funeral

2024

Never Eat Alone poster
4.8

An elderly widow (Joan Benac) starts to wonder what happened to a would-be lover from her past who appeared with her in a live televised drama in the 1950s. After discovering the show in CBC’s archive, her granddaughter Audrey (Deragh Campbell) attempts to try and track the man down.

Never Eat Alone

2016

MS Slavic 7 poster
5.2

After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia’s words.

MS Slavic 7

2019

MS Slavic 7 poster
5.2

After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia’s words.

MS Slavic 7

2019

MS Slavic 7 poster
5.2

After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia’s words.

MS Slavic 7

2019