ELYZABETH WALLING UDA / ACTRA
Elyzabeth Walling is a performance graduate of the Lee Strasberg Institute in London. The versatile actress has brought her talents to the stage and the movies as well as to the small screen.
Even at the outset of her career, in the popular television series Au nom du Père et du Fils, she was hailed for how naturally she played the role of Roses-Lilas, breathing life into a character who moves from the late teens to the dawn of her forties. Quebec viewers were delighted to come across her again as a touching peasant in the sequel, Le Sorcier. She then broadened her palette, taking part in Mourir d'Amour under the direction osome co-productions: first one done with France, for Richard Ciupka, and then the made-for-TV film All Souls from American producer Aaron Spelling, where she was barely recognizable portraying a London prostitute. And she confidently assumed the character of the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt in the movie Varian's War, alongside William Hurt and Lynn Redgrave. After several other TV series she portrayed the sparkling Josée in Les Ex.
In the movies, Elyzabeth Walling has shared the screen with Murray Head in Le Grand Serpent du monde (The Great Snake of the World), and has subsequently worked with Jim Donovan (New Gold Dream) and David Mamet (The Heist), among others. In Los Angeles, she was offered a leading role in Yana Gorskaya's film Stone. After returning to Québec she appeared in Philippe Falardeau's La moitié gauche du frigo (The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge) and then in the Kim Nguyen film Le Marais (The Marsh), with Grégory Hlady. With the latter she shared directing duties for the choreography of the opening event of Montreal's Théâtre de La Veillée, Kafka's Amerika. She also danced, played piano and sang in it.
Rock Amerika in New York and Paradox Pictures in Italy have called on Elyzabeth Walling's multiple talents in a number of music videos. For the past five years, she has been a frequent collaborator of the Festival du nouveau cinema, where she organizes and hosts the highly original CinéOké presented at the cinema and new media complex Ex-Centris.