Actors

Nancy Duchaine

Nancy Duchaine

Nancy is a highly educated actor, teacher, volunteer firefighter, and martial artist. Being an army brat, she grew up always being the new kid on the block. She nurtured a deep sense of empathy thanks to her differently-abled sister. These two experiences allowed her to always be 'on' and helped her develop a strong desire to perform. Intent on living her dream, Nancy attended the Vancouver Film School (VFS) and graduated with a Certificate of Acting for Film and Television. Subsequently, she completed a couple of Bachelor's Degrees and then a Master's of Arts in Education. Nancy has been a high-school English, Math, and Spanish teacher. In addition, Nancy has trained in Shotokan karate since 1995. She currently holds a Second Degree Black Belt and is an expert in Self-Defense and personnel security. She has also been a Certified NCCP Karate Coach since 2007. Karate has taught Nancy discipline and stick-to-itness as well as has allowed her to flex her positive female role model muscle. Flash forward about 20 years after VFS, Nancy moved to a small, rural town with her little family of 3. That's where the momentum for her acting career really started to build. She acted in various community theatre productions and then landed the title role of Eliza Doolittle in Winding Rivers Arts and Performance Society's rendition of My Fair Lady. Shortly after, thanks to her rave reviews, Nancy was offered her first credited film role in Juggernaut. Nancy is currently a working actor who is super excited about the industry boom in the Okanagan. She is also eager to branch out into the DC Universe television market in Vancouver.
Nancy Ellen Shore

Nancy Ellen Shore

Writer-performer Nancy Ellen Shore can be seen as Dr. Watson in Emmy-nominated director Paul Starkman's multi-award-winning feature Wheels (2018), which won Best Film at the 2019 Harlem International Film Festival, First Place (Feature) in the 2019 San Francisco Black Film Festival, and Best Narrative Feature and Audience Award at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival. Other recent film work: Dorothy (lead), an aging punk rocker grieving her best friend's death while struggling with eviction in Classic Punk (2019 short), and Matty's Aunt in Romina Schwedler's The Visit, a multi-award-winning 2016 short costarring Academy Award-nominee June Squibb. Recent theater work: Mrs. Higgins in New Bedford Festival Theatre's My Fair Lady starring Peter Gregus (Broadway's Jersey Boys) at the Zeiterion Theatre. Recent TV: Five seasons (81 episodes) as a recurring State Department Advisor/Senior White House Staff (core ensemble) on Madam Secretary (CBS); Recurring Inmate (core ensemble), Orange Is the New Black, Seasons 1-5 (Netflix). Nancy has been featured since 2012 in many other TV shows and movies, playing everything from a homeless woman to a wealthy Theater Patron/Tony Voter friend of Eileen Rand, Anjelica Huston's character, on Smash. A former theater critic/feature writer for Backstage, Stages, and The Providence Journal, she has penned juvenile biographies (Amelia Earhart, Anne Hutchinson), written for Time-Life Books, and done editorial work at Condé Nast, The New York Review of Books, and many other NYC newspapers, magazines, and publishing companies. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Dramatists Guild, and New York Women in Film and TV.