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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1970
Place of Birth
Giamaica
Also Known As
- Yanna MacIntosh
Yanna McIntosh
1.2 Popularity
Biography
Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian stage, film and television actress. Yanna honed her craft at the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. Her teaching roles at the National Theatre School and Humber College included directing students in acclaimed productions like Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III. Her portrayal of Pat Barrows in the 2006 TV movie "Doomstown" earned her a 2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role. Notably, McIntosh made history in 2011 as the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in "Ruined," which also garnered her a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance. She had previously won Doras for her roles in Florence Gibson’s "Belle" and Athol Fugard’s "Valley Song."
Known For
0.0
Mary Bishop
Jingle Bell Wedding
2025
5.1
Shirley Dantree
Hell Motel
2025
6.6
Jingle Bell Love
2024
7.2
Dr. Finlay
Cross
2024
5.4
Political Commentator
Humane
2024
6.3
Ms. Norris
Dying in Plain Sight
2024
0.0
Ruby
Mothers
2023
0.0
Bennie Baron
Verona
2023
6.4
Agent Lorna Illing
The Marsh King's Daughter
2023
4.5
Super (voice)
Work It Out Wombats!
2023
Credits
Jingle Bell Wedding
as Mary Bishop
2025
0.0
Hell Motel
as Shirley Dantree
2025
5.1
Jingle Bell Love
2024
6.6
Cross
as Dr. Finlay
2024
7.2
Humane
as Political Commentator
2024
5.4
Dying in Plain Sight
as Ms. Norris
2024
6.3
Mothers
as Ruby
2023
0.0
Verona
as Bennie Baron
2023
0.0
The Marsh King's Daughter
as Agent Lorna Illing
2023
6.4
Work It Out Wombats!
as Super (voice)
2023
4.5
Three Pines
as Estelle
2022
6.4
Slumberland
as Carla
2022
7.3
Swindler Seduction
as Francie
2022
5.8
Y: The Last Man
as General Peggy Reed
2021
6.8
Like a House on Fire
as Nancy
2021
7.2
Pretty Hard Cases
as Donna Duff
2021
6.2
Nurses
as Mrs. Richie
2020
7.3
Diggstown
2019
6.8
Titans
as Roberta
2018
7.9
Mary Goes Round
as Bethany
2018
6.3
Unless
as Cery
2016
4.8
Private Eyes
as Dr. Thomas
2016
7.3
The Expanse
as Captain Chandra Lucas
2015
8.1
Killjoys
as Zia Seyah Traclus
2015
6.9
Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
2015
4.0
Remedy
as Fiona
2014
5.4
Hemlock Grove
as Frieda the Lawyer
2013
7.1
Bloodwork
as Patricia
2012
5.3
Suits
as Judge Pearl Atkins
2011
8.2
Republic of Doyle
as Sarah
2010
7.0
The Listener
as Reta Bello
2009
6.9
The Line
2009
3.5
A Raisin in the Sun
as Miss Tilly
2008
6.1
Finn's Girl
as Diana
2007
4.8
They Come Back
as Naketha
2007
3.8
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
as Dr. Crone
2006
5.0
The Sentinel
as Teddy Vargas
2006
6.1
Reversible Errors
as Genevieve Carriere
2004
6.1
Chasing Freedom
as Ruth
2004
8.0
This Is Wonderland
as Zona Robinson
2004
9.0
Spooky House
as Nicole
2002
5.9
John Q
as State Employee
2002
7.1
True Blue
as Anna
2001
4.8
Full Disclosure
as Penny Mills
2001
3.4
Deliberate Intent
as Elaine
2000
4.5
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999
1.5
Down in the Delta
as Slave Woman
1998
6.2
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Riverdale
as Jenni Hernandez
1997
6.8
Due South
as Candace Madison
1994
7.6