Liisa Repo-Martell | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1971 (age 53) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Known for | Gemini award winner |
Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist.[1]
Repo-Martell's parents, Satu Repo and George Martell, were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as This Magazine.[2]
Repo-Martell grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. She received a Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street.[1] She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.[3]
She portrayed Mrs. Genest, the estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), in the 2006 made-for-TV-movie Jesse Stone: Night Passage.[4] In February 2012, the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband; actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple".[5] Repo-Mertell portrayed Sir Reginald Hargreeves' wife Abigail in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).
A Gemini Award winner last year for her starring role in CBC-TV's Nights Below Station Street, her stage credits include an achingly fragile turn in The Glass Menagerie at London's Grand Theatre and a feisty role in Go Chicken Go's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension.
Perhaps her commitment comes from her parents, political activists and academics who co-founded This Magazine (then called This Magazine is About Schools). "It was almost a religious upbringing," says Repo-Martell. "They had this sense of justice, of utopia. They were passionate. It was inspiring".