Susan Coyne

Acting

Susan Coyne

Born 1958-06-16 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Canadian-born stage and screen actor and writer, Susan Coyne is bet known for her work in television. She attended St. John's-Ravenscourt School and National Theatre School in Montreal, graduating in 1984. Ms. Cyne founded the Soulpepper Theatra Company and the the recipient of two Gemini awards for acting and writing.

Acting credits

Blindness poster
6.5

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Blindness

2008

Hell of a Summer poster
5.5

When 24-year-old Jason Hochberg arrives for counsellor weekend at his beloved Camp Pineway, his biggest problem is feeling out of touch with his teenage co-workers. Little does he know; a masked killer has murdered camp owners John and Kathy and is preparing to strike again.

Hell of a Summer

2025

French Exit poster
5.6

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

French Exit

2021

Never Talk to Strangers poster
5.4

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

Never Talk to Strangers

1995

Snow Cake poster
7.1

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Snow Cake

2006

Thanks of a Grateful Nation poster
4.8

An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.

Thanks of a Grateful Nation

1998

Guilty Hearts poster
4.6

Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.

Guilty Hearts

2002

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples poster
5.0

Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

1998

Mark Twain and Me poster
7.6

During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.

Mark Twain and Me

1991

End of Summer poster
3.9

An unmarried aristocrat resists the advances of the adventurous man whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward and a young maid.

End of Summer

1997

Ebenezer poster
3.8

A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.

Ebenezer

1998

The Piano Man's Daughter poster
10.0

Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to marriage and children. Meanwhile, his grandparents (R.H. Thomson and Wendy Crewson) are debating whether to put his mother (Stockard Channing) into a mental institution. Whoopi Goldberg shares producing credits on this generational drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley.

The Piano Man's Daughter

2003

Picture Day poster
6.5

A rebellious teenager forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood - and between two very different male admirers.

Picture Day

2012

Prison for Children poster
5.8

Contemporary drama dealing with an orphaned teenager trapped in an antiquated juvenile disciplinary system and the efforts of the institution's superintendent and a sympathetic teacher to get that system changed.

Prison for Children

1987

Booky's Crush poster
5.0

The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents want to support his skill, Thomas in particular wants him to take up a vocation that is a little more stable. Willa, the part time librarian, is attracted to Russell, the medical student she meets at the library. And 11-year old Booky is happy that she has been asked to tutor the new older sixth grade student, Georgie Dunlop, in spelling, since she has a crush on him, her first ever. She just can't wait for him to ask her to the school dance. But she begins to have mixed feelings about Georgie based on a gift he gives to her. Digging a little deeper, Booky begins to understand both the good and bad of Georgie.

Booky's Crush

2009

Behind the camera

Flavia poster
5.7

The adventures of 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is both an amateur detective and a master poisoner. When she discovers a dead body in her family’s decaying British manor house and her father is accused of the murder, Flavia launches her own investigation to uncover family secrets and bring the true murderer to justice.

Flavia

2026

The Man Who Invented Christmas poster
6.8

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

Anne of Green Gables poster
7.2

A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead.

Anne of Green Gables

2016

Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars poster
6.3

When Anne Shirley turns 13, she faces complex issues with her friends, inspirational adults and Marilla and Matthew. At the same time, she begins a friendship with Gilbert Blythe that emotionally escalates to disrupt the status quo of her peaceful world. Her free-spirited nature is challenged by her perceived need to become sensible, and her journey toward this goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate – albeit, amusing - mishaps.

Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars

2017

Christmas Dreams poster
NR

A story of a lonely 11 year old girl (Sam) who wanders into a second-hand store in search of a Christmas present for her teenage sister. There she meets Rose (Cynthia Dale), the kind but eccentric shopkeeper, who calls her collection of castoffs “A Gallery of Temporary Art”. With Rose’s help, Sam goes on a series of magical musical adventures, and rediscovers the beauty and joy of Christmas while Rose rediscovers the beauty, joy and importance of family.

Christmas Dreams

2009

Robin And Mark And Richard III poster
9.0

Theatre director Robin Phillips rehearses actor Mark McKinney over the course of 3 years.

Robin And Mark And Richard III

2016

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew poster
6.6

Anne heads to Charlottetown to attend accelerated classes as she continues to work towards her dream of being a school teacher. While there, she is forced to adapt quickly to her new surroundings and classmates as she navigates her way through her first school experience outside of her beloved Green Gables. Anne finds herself facing daunting choices for her future, the stirrings of romance, and tragedy unlike anything she's ever known. Meanwhile, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert contend with advancing age as they deal with financial challenges and creeping ailments.

Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

2017

Sound & Fury: Film poster
8.0

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

Sound & Fury: Film

2010