Susan Kent

Acting

Susan Kent

Born 1974-12-12

Susan Kent (born December 12, 1974) is a Canadian writer and actress. She is best known for being a writer and cast member on CBC Television's This Hour Has 22 Minutes from 2012 to 2020, and for acting on television shows such as Trailer Park Boys (2017-2018), Pretty Hard Cases (2021-2023) and The Trades (2023-2026). Her film credits include Grown Up Movie Star (2009), Relative Happiness (2014), Spinster (2019) and Hands That Bind (2021). In 2024, she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, for her role in the crime comedy film Who's Yer Father? (2023). In 2026, Kent wrote the screenplay for Jenna MacMillan's directorial debut The Snake, which she also starred in. The film had its world premiere at the 2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, where Kent won the Narrative Feature Performance prize.

Acting credits

The Snake poster
NR

When an ungovernable 40 something wild child collides with her venomous mother, her life blows up spectacularly leaving her newly evicted, partially single, and in bed with her best friend’s husband.

The Snake

2026

Wharf Rats poster
NR

Hughie Hackett (Robbie Carruthers) has spent his life doing as little as possible without actually doing nothing at all, squandering his potential. Frustrated that his Uncle Angus (Daniel Lillford), known as the best Hackett fisherman in town, a reputation secured by sabotaging his competition, is about to sell off the family fishing company, Hughie forms a misguided plan to pretend that a simple-minded man is his long-lost brother, the key to his father's will.

Wharf Rats

2020

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NR

A troubled young woman reaches out to an unlikely protector.

Bathroom

2008

Diverted poster
6.8

On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.

Diverted

2009

A Christmas Fury poster
2.0

The Hatching Matching and Dispatching story continues in A Christmas Fury - an outrageously funny TV movie with unexpected heart.

A Christmas Fury

2017

The One That Got Away poster
4.3

Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.

The One That Got Away

2008

Spinster poster
5.6

After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single.

Spinster

2019

Stray poster
4.0

A meek nine-year old girl struggles to find an object for her tenderness inside the confines of a hard-nosed home environment and post-industrial town.

Stray

2013

Who's Yer Father? poster
5.2

A small-town private investigator is hired to investigate the sale of black-market lobster in Prince Edward Island along with a scrappy convenience store owner.

Who's Yer Father?

2023

Relative Happiness poster
7.0

Plus-sized Lexie Ivy is a feisty B&B owner who desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding.

Relative Happiness

2014

Hopeless Romantic poster
NR

Everyone has a different story to tell, especially when it comes to relationships. Lynda Boyd stars as Anna, a recently widowed cardiologist facing romantic challenges. While attending a wedding, Anna discovers she is not alone and bonds with six other women as they each share their unique stories of navigating the complex world of relationships. This anthology film weaves through the love lives of these women, charting their ups and downs in romance and rejection.

Hopeless Romantic

2018

Grown Up Movie Star poster
5.1

The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Grown Up Movie Star

2010

Hands That Bind poster
9.0

A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.

Hands That Bind

2023

How To Be Deadly poster
NR

In Newfoundland, an unemployed minibike rider enters a minibike competition to win back his girlfriend.

How To Be Deadly

2014

Young Triffie's Been Made Away With poster
4.4

In 1947 Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Alan Hepditch, a by-the-books but squeamish and somewhat dimwitted criminologist is constantly being tormented by his fellow ranger candidates and his sergeant, Bill O'Mara. Before Hepditch can quit, O'Mara, as a sort of punishment, assigns him to his first posting at Swyer's Harbour, where five sheep mutilations have taken place over the past year. When he arrives in Swyer's Harbour, Hepditch has a more serious crime to investigate, that of the murder of a local, mentally slow woman named Tryphenia Maud Pottle, better known to the locals as Young Triffie.

Young Triffie's Been Made Away With

2007

Violet poster
4.0

It seems like everyone in Violet’s family dies at age 55. Her mother did, her father did, and as this movie opens Violet, played by Mary Walsh, learns that her brother, Leonard has also died. He too was 55, an age she is now fast approaching herself. His death causes Violet to begin an existential tailspin as her family gathers round. They are Andrew Younghusband who plays her son Carlos, a gay professor of languages who has returned from Montreal. Actor and director Barry Newhook plays Rex who is a musician and daughter Ramona is played by Susan Kent. As the movie unfolds it turns out that Violet has a lot to live for, including a romance with farm manager Rusty played by Peter MacNeill.

Violet

2000

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NR

A tale of two longtime losers looking for love.

Diamonds in a Bucket

2007

Making Love in St. Pierre poster
7.0

A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another couple.

Making Love in St. Pierre

2004

Oliver Bump's Birthday poster
6.0

A 12 year old boy, fated to die on his thirteenth birthday, has to find a way to cheat death before the clock runs out.

Oliver Bump's Birthday

2011

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NR

Margaret Moores, a novelist, gets herself cloned so the clone can pump out pages and do the housework while she spends time with her family. The problem is that fun-loving Maggie the clone is a more creative writer and the family likes her better!

Me2

2013

Bloody Mess poster
NR

When filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. It turned out she had fibroids. Bloody Mess is a short, animated documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by the always incredible Susan Kent) on a harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.

Bloody Mess

2024

Cardboard Junction poster
NR

Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.

Cardboard Junction

2010

Abandoned poster
NR

Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.

Abandoned

2014

Behind the camera