| Liisa Repo-Martell | |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Known For: | Gemini award winner |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Yearsactive: | 1988-present |
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. 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 .[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).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Cocktail | Young girl in deli | |
| 1989 | American Boyfriends | Julie La Belle | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Faith | |
| 1996 | Can I Get a Witness? | Sam | Short film |
| data-sort-value="English Patient, The" | The English Patient | Jan | |
| 2000 | Washed Up | Brains | |
| Infidelity | Maid | Short film | |
| Hold-Up | Woman | ||
| 2003 | Bastards | Finnie | |
| 2004 | Touch of Pink | Delia | |
| 2007 | Diamonds in a Bucket | Vivian | Short film |
| Lars and the Real Girl | Laurel | ||
| 2015 | King Lear | Regan | |
| 2016 | Lavender | Jennifer | |
| 2020 | Flashback | Mrs. Fitzell | |
| Happy Place | Nina |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Street Legal | Kate Quinlan | "Soul Custody" | |
| 1992 | Sandra | TV film | ||
| 1993 | E.N.G. | Terry | "The Big Sleepover" | |
| Class of '96 | Miranda | "The Adventures of Pat's Man and Robin" | ||
| Patty | "The Lacquered Box" | |||
| 1994 | TekWar: TekLab | Galahad | TV film | |
| Lives of Girls and Women | Naomi | |||
| 1995 | Trish | "May I Walk with You" | ||
| 1996 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Billy Jean | "Partners" | |
| Hidden in America | Angela | TV film | ||
| Critical Choices | Amy | |||
| 1997 | Once a Thief | Nikki | "Rave On" | |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Kristie Schuermann | TV film | |
| Nights Below Station Street | Adele Walsh | |||
| 1998–1999 | Emily of New Moon | Maida Flynn | "Falling Angels" & "The Return of Maida Flynn" | |
| 1999 | Amanda Hayes | "Volunteers" | ||
| Jenny Turner | "Body and Soul" | |||
| 2000 | Strong Medicine | Jessie | "Pilot" | |
| 2002 | Scared Silent | Carole Bakelin | TV film | |
| 2003 | Missing | Stacy Drake | "Thin Air" | |
| 2005–2006 | This Is Wonderland | Sandy Fisher | Recurring role | |
| 2006 | Carole Genest | TV film | ||
| Puppets Who Kill | Lottie | "Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation" | ||
| 2007 | Trapped! | First Officer Maiju Saari | "Ocean Emergency" | |
| 2008 | ReGenesis | Marie Gervais | "The Kiss" | |
| 2009 | Diverted | Eileen Northbrook | TV film | |
| data-sort-value="Listener, The" | The Listener | Rebecca Cahill | "My Sister's Keeper" | |
| 2010 | Republic of Doyle | Shannie Malone | "The Fall of the Republic" | |
| Flashpoint | Claire Williams | "Acceptable Risk" | ||
| 2011, 2020 | Murdoch Mysteries | Lydia Howland/Bridget Mulcahy | "Dead End Street"/"Rigid Silence" | |
| 2011 | Committed | Donneymeade | TV film | |
| 2012 | King | Dot Fuller | "Freddy Boise" | |
| 2013 | Cracked | Angie Coturno | "Spirited Away" | |
| 2014 | Remedy | Cynthia | "Homecoming" | |
| 2016 | Saving Hope | Tracy | "Not Fade Away" | |
| 2019, 2022–2024 | data-sort-value="Umbrella Academy, The" | The Umbrella Academy | Abigail Hargreeves | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Anne with an E | Mrs. Rose | "The Summit of My Desires" and "Great and Sudden Change" |