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]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Me | Kathy | ||
| 1977 | Who Has Seen the Wind | Maggie O'Connal | ||
| 1980 | Valerie Martinelli | |||
| 1981 | Silence of the North | The Red-Headed Lady | ||
| 1981 | Gretchen | |||
| 1983 | Nurse | |||
| 1985 | Terminal Choice | Mrs. Dodson | ||
| 1986 | Confidential | Amelia | ||
| 1989 | Millennium | Council Member - Stockholm | ||
| 1990 | Defy Gravity | Mary Fiddich | ||
| 2002 | Fifty-Fifty | Margaret | Short | |
| 2004 | Madame Helga |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Performance | Emma Goldman | Episode "Red Emma" | |
| 1978 | One Night Stand | Daisy | TV film | |
| 1981 | Janet | TV film | ||
| 1983 | American Playhouse | Djamilla | Episode: "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" | |
| 1985, 1988 | Night Heat | Arlene Elizabeth, Mrs. Metcalfe | Episodes: "Innocents", "Forgive Me Father" | |
| 1988 | Diamonds | Episode: "Where There's a Will" | ||
| 1988 | Tanya Sloane | Episode: "Master of Disguise" | ||
| 1988, 1990 | Danger Bay | Noreen | Episodes: "The Only Way Down Is Up", "Looking Back" | |
| 1989 | Where the Spirit Lives | Miss Appleby | TV film | |
| 1989–1992 | E.N.G. | Dr. Forbes | Episodes: "Pilot: Parts 1 & 2", "Payment in Kind", "Harvest" | |
| 1991 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Mrs. Lewin | TV film | |
| 1991 | Mark Twain and Me | Sarah Hardwig | TV film | |
| 1992 | Judy Jensen | TV film | ||
| 1993 | Street Legal | Frances Doneff | Episode: "Forgiveness" | |
| 1994 | Sin & Redemption | Emma Simms | TV film | |
| 1994 | Madison | Lucy | Episode: "Playing Solitaire" | |
| 1995 | Harrison Bergeron | Head House Lady | TV film | |
| 1996 | Judge Harpe | TV film | ||
| 1996 | Sliders | Gladys | Episode: "El Sid" | |
| 1996 | Reckoning | Madame Durand | TV film | |
| 1996 | Miss Clark | Episode: "Doppelganger" | ||
| 1998 | Cold Squad | Myra Fitch | Episode: "Jane Klosky" | |
| 1998–99 | Dr. Patou | Episodes: "The Red and the Black", "Two Fathers" | ||
| 2001 | Andromeda | Constanza Stark | Episode: "Forced Perspective" | |
| 2004 | This Is Wonderland | Episode: "1.6" | ||
| 2004 | Catherine Cross | TV miniseries | ||
| 2004 | Clerk | Episode: "The Actor" | ||
| 2007 | Sister Beatrice | Episode: "Rules of Engagement" | ||
| 2007 | Instant Star | Charity Woman | Episode: "Heart of Gold" | |
| 2009 | Flashpoint | Mrs. Hill | Episode: "Perfect Storm" | |
| 2010 | Lost Girl | Martha | Episode: "ArachnoFaebia" | |
| 2010 | Being Erica | Joyce Fitzpatrick | Episodes: "The Rabbit Hole", "Being Adam", "Adam's Family" | |
| 2014 | Wendy Thomas | TV film |