Morgan Brayton

Acting

Morgan Brayton

Born 1970-06-26 · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Morgan Brayton is a writer and performer who lives in Vancouver with her wife and an excessive number of cats. A Canadian Comedy Award nominee, she is one quarter of The Lady Show, winners of Best Variety Show at the Vancouver Comedy Awards and Pick of the Fringe at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Morgan is the creator of the solo shows Give It Up, Raccoonery! and Girls Like Me. Her sketch comedy credits span decades and include Girl Parts, 30 Helens and The Crawford Twins and her theatre credits include the final tour of The Number 14. You can hear her on CBC Radio's The Debaters or see her on BC's Knowledge Network, her own show on OutTV, Morgan Brayton ...and Other People (2014), or in a wide range of memorable film & TV acting roles including Chubby Best Friend, Second Cashier, and Person with Face.

Acting credits

This Boy's Life poster
7.1

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

This Boy's Life

1993

Overboard poster
6.7

A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.

Overboard

2018

Hard Core Logo poster
6.6

Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.

Hard Core Logo

1996

The Big Year poster
6.0

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.

The Big Year

2011

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed poster
6.1

A masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that creates real-life versions of Mystery Inc.'s former foes like The 10,000 Volt Ghost, The Cotton Candy Glob, The Skelemen and The Pterodactyl Ghost. Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, Velma and Scooby-Doo launch an investigation into the monster outbreak that leaves Shaggy and Scooby questioning their roles in Mystery Inc. Eager to prove their detective skills, the ever-ravenous duo comes up with a secret plan to solve the mystery all by themselves. Can the gang unravel their most challenging case?

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2004

Get Carter poster
5.2

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Get Carter

2000

The Surrogate poster
6.3

Amy Winslow wants to go to art college but can't get her financial aid approved. A help wanted ad leads to a couple that will let her move into their quiet guest home rent free, a dream come true except that Joan wants Amy to be a surrogate mother for her next child. Little does Amy know the dark sinister reasons behind her desire, the scandalous death of Joan's first infant child and the fear she might hurt her next baby. The baby is adopted before Amy wakes up in the hospital, leading to a dangerous confrontation to claim the child finally for her own.

The Surrogate

1995

Bigger Fatter Liar poster
5.2

Kevin Shepard is a tech-savvy young genius who uses his intelligence to slack off. When greedy video game executive Larry Wolf gets a hold of his ideas for a video game, Kevin and his best friend Becca set off for San Francisco to make Wolf's life miserable through a series of pranks.

Bigger Fatter Liar

2017

Bigger Fatter Liar poster
5.2

Kevin Shepard is a tech-savvy young genius who uses his intelligence to slack off. When greedy video game executive Larry Wolf gets a hold of his ideas for a video game, Kevin and his best friend Becca set off for San Francisco to make Wolf's life miserable through a series of pranks.

Bigger Fatter Liar

2017

Incident at Deception Ridge poster
5.0

When a double-crossing husband runs off with his wife's ransom money, her kidnappers come after him and the missing money. He leads them on a treacherous journey through the wilderness.

Incident at Deception Ridge

1994

Fetching Cody poster
6.3

Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.

Fetching Cody

2005

Battle of the Bulbs poster
4.9

Bob and Stu are former best friends who still hold a grudge from an argument they had when they were teenagers. Now, they hope to settle the score with a different kind of competition: who can out-bulb the other in their town’s annual Christmas decorating contest.

Battle of the Bulbs

2010

Ronnie and Julie poster
4.5

In this modern day version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' a rising hockey star and a figure skater with a bright future fall in love. However, they find themselves on opposite sides of the rink due to the fierce rivalry between their parents.

Ronnie and Julie

1997

Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery poster
5.9

When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany’s favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his straight-laced but adoring husband Tim and his occasionally too-eager assistant Kenny, Strachey’s investigation leads him on a dark and dangerous trail into the world of "gay conversion therapy".

Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery

2006

No Child of Mine poster
5.0

A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.

No Child of Mine

1993

Boyfriend poster
NR

Footage of Vancouver punk band SKINJOBS performing live at Ms T's.

Boyfriend

2006

Random Acts of Romance poster
NR

Random Acts of Romance is a feature comedy about intense characters in extreme relationship situations — and the crazy and obsessive behaviors that spring from this thing called love. The story is paced like an emotional roller coaster, punctuated by moments of uncomfortably illuminating hilarity as characters confront situations we all identify with.

Random Acts of Romance

2012

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle poster
10.0

When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one believes her and she is disowned by her mother. Years later and now a mother herself she drifts from town to town and they finally settle in a town that is in the grips of a serial killer.Only Donielle can "see" who the killer is and after he threatens her daughter she knows she must face him down. Based on actual events.

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

2000

All She Wants for Christmas poster
5.4

Forest City depends entirely on the Aikens Christmas decoration factory. Local economics graduate Judith 'Noelle' Dunn returned there to finish her thesis by analyzing the plant. A freak near-accident matches her with adventurous drifter Justin Allen, whom she gets a menial job in the factory. Alas the late founder discretely footed systematical losses. His haughty granddaughter Ashley Aikens arrives to check if the firm can be made profitable. Noelle is jealous when Ashley keeps contacting Justin, who swears only to have eyes for her. It turns out he is key to more secrets, but will they work for good or bad?

All She Wants for Christmas

2006

Exuvia poster
8.0

A troubled nanny teaches a bullied ten-year-old that freedom to move forward is made possible by shedding the ugly skin of our past.

Exuvia

2024

Acting in the Closet poster
1.0

In front of a live studio audience, host David C. Jones interviews three different panels of film industry professionals about the trials and tribulations for proudly queer and out actors.

Acting in the Closet

2021

Time and Again poster
3.3

When Anna Malone finds an old music box hidden in a house she is renovating, she has no idea the joys, sorrows, and hidden dangers it will bring.

Time and Again

2007

Behind the camera