Chapelle Jaffe

Chapelle Jaffe is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for the television film One Night Stand,[1] and receiving a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for The Amateur.[2]

Jaffe also was in the cast of the original production of One Night Stand at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.[3]

In 1977, Jaffe's acting in Red Emma brought her a nomination for an ACTRA Award for the best acting performance in TV.[4]

She was the editor of the first edition of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Who's Who in Canadian Film and Television directory.[5]

Jaffe also worked in the administrative dimension of entertainment, including being executive director of Vancouver's New Play Festival[6] and Playwrights Theatre Centre.[7]

  1. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
  2. ^ "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.
  3. ^ Hicks, Wessely (20 August 1977). "Who Needs Al Pacino?". The Gazette. Canada, Montreal. p. 56. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "The ACTRA Awards". Edmonton Journal. Canada, Edmonton, Alberta. 7 April 1977. p. 108. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "'Editor by day, killer by night'". The Globe and Mail, January 28, 1986.
  6. ^ Birnie, Peter (2 May 2002). "Aaron Buskowsky leads off the 28th Vancouver New Play Festival with a fiddle". The Vancouver Sun. Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver. p. 31. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Forums This Week". The Vancouver Sun. Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver. 30 December 1999. p. 52. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.