Sonja Bennett

Acting

Sonja Bennett

Born 1980-08-24 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sonja Bennett (born August 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. Her film debut was in the Canadian feature film Punch (2002), for which she won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film. She has since starred in the films Donovan's Echo, Cole, Control Alt Delete, Young People Fucking, and Fido as well as the television series Godiva's and Cold Squad. In 2014, Bennett made her screenwriting debut with Preggoland in which she also starred. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bennett is the daughter of director and writer Guy Bennett and Anna Hart. She was raised mainly by her mother, living in several locations. She is a graduate of Garibaldi Secondary School in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. She attended the University of British Columbia for two years on an academic scholarship. Following that, she attended Langara College in Vancouver, and enrolled in the Studio 58 program.

Acting credits

Rise of the Planet of the Apes poster
7.4

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011

The Fog poster
4.6

Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.

The Fog

2005

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball poster
5.3

Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball

2010

Young People Fucking poster
5.8

On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and miscommunication. Mia and Eric are exes, making sure they are over each other. Jaime and Ken work together and this is a first date. Inez and Gord invite his roommate, Dave, to join them. By the time each couple has gone through a prelude, foreplay, sex, an interlude, orgasm, and afterglow, they've answered basic questions: can sex be anonymous, are we bored, is our marriage really finished, does anyone tell the truth, and how do we make someone happy?

Young People Fucking

2007

The Client List poster
5.9

After she and her husband lose their jobs, a former Texas homecoming queen inadvertently finds herself in the middle of a prostitution ring after she unknowingly accepts a position at a massage parlor.

The Client List

2010

The Perfect Score poster
5.8

Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

The Perfect Score

2004

Catch and Release poster
5.9

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

Catch and Release

2006

Elegy poster
6.3

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Elegy

2008

Where the Truth Lies poster
6.2

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

Where the Truth Lies

2005

Fido poster
6.4

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.

Fido

2006

The Sandlot: Heading Home poster
5.6

A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.

The Sandlot: Heading Home

2007

Deer Woman poster
6.0

A harried, burned-out cop believes that a recent string of murders proves that the murderer might be a deer-like creature in the form of a beautiful woman, straight from a local Native American folklore legend.

Deer Woman

2006

Preggoland poster
5.7

A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.

Preggoland

2014

Donovan's Echo poster
6.0

A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.

Donovan's Echo

2011

Control Alt Delete poster
3.7

A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age. As Lewis struggles to integrate his public and private personas, he realizes he may not be the only one harboring a dirty little secret.

Control Alt Delete

2010

Punch poster
4.8

Ariel is a troubled girl with more than the usual teenage problems. When her emotion and temper get the best of her, she is drawn into a world where she can take out her anger with her fists. In the tradition of 'Girlfight' comes a wildly original story of rage and redemption.

Punch

2003

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber poster
4.5

Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec, won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder. When tax inspectors question her claims Katya is forced to keep a financial diary and finds time to add details about her friends, enemies and lovers all from her unique point of view.

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

2005

A Dog Named Christmas poster
7.0

A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."

A Dog Named Christmas

2009

Kayak to Klemtu poster
5.3

14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters.

Kayak to Klemtu

2018

Marker poster
4.0

In an isolated small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sylvia's teenaged life of juggling two boyfriends and an overprotective father is turned upside down when she discovers she has a bizarre virus which has randomly plagued the women in her community for decades and shamefully forced those afflicted into hiding. Sylvia undergoes a horrifying physical transformation, and she finds herself drawn into a persecuted underworld where she begins an astonishing journey of freakish self-discovery. Marker is a classic coming-of-age tale with a horror twist, which pits its heroine against her oppressors - the town's non-afflicted - in a battle for self-determination--and survival.

Marker

2005

In Sickness and in Health poster
NR

It is Samantha's wedding day- but she gets a note saying her groom-to-be is a serial killer.

In Sickness and in Health

2008

Playing for Keeps poster
5.9

A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Based on a true story.

Playing for Keeps

2009

Past Obsessions poster
4.4

To the outside world, it would appear Shane Walsh (Josie Davis) has it all - a wealthy and loving husband, a beautiful home, and a lavish lifestyle... but appearances can be deceiving. Matt Walsh (David Millbern) is an attentive and kind husband, but behind closed doors, this monster turns his controlling and jealous rage towards Shane, leaving her battered and bruised. Knowing he will never let her go, she makes the only choice she feels will truly set her free. She must fake her own death and start a new life far away.

Past Obsessions

2011

Fatal Kiss poster
NR

Love to Kill is about Francis Sweet, a young gorgeous woman who uses her beauty and charm to lure wealthy men into giving her all their money and then she kills them. Francis is a mysterious attractive woman who catches the eye of Nicholas, a widower and an aspiring politician. Nicholas falls head over heels but he may have fallen for the wrong girl and he's not the only one. Is she deceiving him or is she worse...a black widow?

Fatal Kiss

2009

Behind the camera