Actors - Joan Orenstein

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Joan Orenstein (1930–) is a Canadian actress. One of her major roles was in The Hanging Garden
. She played the dotty old grandmother, Grace. She has acted across Canada but has mostly acted for Halifax's Neptune Theatre.

Relatives

Sarah Orenstein (Dora Award Winner) is the youngest of Joan's five daughters. She played a sharp-tongued feminist filmmaker in Brad Fraser's dark comedy, "Cold Meat Party" (2003).

The late Oscar Orenstein, artist and politician, was her brother-in-law.

Ian Orenstein, cartoonist, writer and socialist, is her nephew.

Henry Orenstein is her husband an artist and CBC designer

Awards

Atlantic Film Festival

Atlantic Canadian Award Best Acting - Female (winner) for: The Hanging Garden (1997)
Atlantic Canadian Award Outstanding Performance by an Actress (winner) for: The Event (2003)

Genie Awards

Genie Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (nominated) for: The Hanging Garden (1997)

Theatreography

Centaur Theatre
*Juno and the Paycock
*People Are Living There
*Stone Angel
*Road to Mecca
*Albertine
*In Five Times
*La Sagouine

National Arts Centre
*Waiting for the Parade
*Mother Courage
*Ghosts

Neptune Theatre
*Forever Yours
*Marie-Lou
*Memories of You

Canadian Stage
*Odd Jobs

Belfry Theatre
*The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr
*If We Are Women

Tarragon Theatre
*Mrs. Klein, with daughter Sarah Orenstein

Theatre Calgary
*Transit of Venus

Shaw Festival
*Mrs. Warren's Profession
*Hedda Gabler

Manitoba Theatre Centre
*'Night Mother

Vancouver East Cultural Centre
*Song of this Place, with daughter Sarah Orenstein

Filmography

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (2003)
Hunger Point (2003)
Baba's House (2002)
Emily of New Moon: Eye of Heaven & Storms of the Heart, 1998
Emily of New Moon: Paradise Lost & The Enchanted Doll, 1998
Emily of New Moon: The Wild Rover, The Ghost of Whyther Grange & A Child Shall Lead Them, 1998
Emily of New Moon: A Winter's Tale & The Sound of Silence, 1998
The Hanging Garden
, 1997
Never Too Late, 1997

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