Valerie Buhagiar

Valerie Buhagiar (born 1964 in Mosta, Malta) is a Maltese born Canadian actress, film director and television host.

She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1986. Her debut as a filmmaker was The Passion of Rita Camilleri, which won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival in 1993.

Buhagiar has won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, for The Lorca Play and White Trash, Blue Eyes.

She has also hosted film programming on the Canadian television networks Showcase and TVOntario.

Filmography

Actor

• Mrs. Soffel (1984)
• Roadkill (1989)
• New Shoes (1990)
• Highway 61 (1991)
• Ultimate Betrayal (1994)
• Romantic Undertaking (1996)
• Johnny Shortwave (1996)
• My Script Doctor (1997)
• The Silver Surfer (1998)
• Expecting (2002)
• Cypher (2002)
• The Last Hit (2004)
• A Winter Tale (2007)

Director

• The Passion of Rita Camilleri (1993)
• One Day I Stood Still (1996)
• L'Amour, L'Amour, Shut the Door Por Favor (1998)
• Tell Us the Truth Josephine (2006)
• Small, Stupid and Insignificant (2010)

External links

• Valerie Buhagiar at the Internet Movie Database