The 14th Canadian Screen Awards were hosted by ACTRA Toronto member Andrew Phung and presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television on May 31, 2026, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2025. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners.
Below Performers Magazine is thrilled to spotlight the ACTRA Toronto members who took home an Award.
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Nadine Bhabha
HEATED RIVALRY
In Heated Rivalry, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey, bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery.
Amanda Brugel
THE HANDMAID’S TALE
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian drama series set in the totalitarian theonomic state of “Gilead,” which has overthrown the U.S. government after a fertility crisis and environmental disasters. Fertile women, known as Handmaids, are sexually enslaved to give birth to children for the ruling elite. The story follows June, renamed “Offred,” one of these Handmaids, as she navigates the brutal regime, struggles to survive, and tries to reunite with her daughter and resist Gilead.
Grace Glowicki
HONEY BUNCH
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why… As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Maika Harper
NORTH OF NORTH
A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage. But it won’t be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.
Josette Jorge
THE UNSTOPPABLE JENNY GARCIA
Life for Jenny is cruising along. With her dance crew of friends, including her first crush, chosen to open for a famous hip hop artist, Jenny sees high school on the horizon and her childhood in the rearview mirror. Until cancer causes her to slam on the brakes. A new road is laid out, but where on it is there room for friends, fun, and dance? Finding that new “real life” is what this story is all about.
Anna Lambe
NORTH OF NORTH
A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage. But it won’t be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.
Alexander Nunez
SETTLE DOWN
Mason is an expert on queer relationships and a matchmaker with a booming success rate. When it comes to love, he knows all… Except why his own relationship is on the rocks.
Jen Pogue
COUNTY BLOOMS: A FLOWER POWERED ADVENTURE
County Blooms celebrates flower growers, designers, and more. Join host Jen Pogue and meet new buds keeping Canada in bloom.
Raffa Virago
DYING IN PLAIN SIGHT
A teenage girl’s atypical anorexia spirals out of control through an endless cycle of restricting, binging, and purging. Her condition is further exacerbated by her parents’ unexpected separation and her mother’s all consuming orthorexia. As her condition begins to take a dangerous toll on her physical and mental health, the friends and family she has pushed away must fight to save her before it’s too late.
Jean Yoon
18 TO 35
When high-achieving Wall Street executive Misha Patel loses her job and visa in one devastating blow, she’s forced to return to her hometown of London, Ontario, where her father drops an unexpected bombshell: he’s leaving for India and she’s now running his rundown youth hostel.
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Jen Pogue
COUNTY BLOOMS: A FLOWER POWERED ADVENTURE
County Blooms celebrates flower growers, designers, and more. Join host Jen Pogue and meet new buds keeping Canada in bloom.
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Allie Dunbar, Lindsey Middleton, Chai Valladares, Patrick McManus, Gordon Hecht, Clarice Wood, Emily Stranges
COWS COME HOME
Flat broke and heartbroken, Tabby Acres returns to her hometown with no plans-and even fewer expectations. With her ride-or-die bestie Cara Matheson, she dives headfirst into the world of competitive cow-showing. Along the way, she lies about her age, dodges small-town exes, and goes udder-to-udder with an 18-year-old nemesis. What could possibly go wrong? (Spoiler: everything.)
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Rain Janjua, Graeme Cornies, Remy Smith, Maya Misaljevic, Ted Dykstra
DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBOURHOOD
This animated preschool series features Daniel, a shy but brave 4-year-old tiger who lives in the Neighbourhood of Make Believe. With help from his neighbours, family and friends – O the Owl, Prince Wednesday, Katerina Kittycat, and Miss Elaina – Daniel has fun while learning the key skills necessary for school and life.
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Nadine Bhabha, Harrison Browne, Robbie Graham-Kuntz, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Kamilla Kowal, Franco Lo Presti, Callan Potter, Slavic Rogozine, Kolton Stewart
HEATED RIVALRY
In Heated Rivalry, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey, bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery.
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Jay Ryan, Anna Lambe, Maika Harper, Keira Cooper
NORTH OF NORTH
A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage. But it won’t be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.
ACTRA Toronto members in this ensemble include: Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, Sydney Topliffe, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Tattiawna Jones, Joshua Close
WAYWARD
A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems.
ACTRA Toronto members who were part of the stunt coordination team include: Angelica Lisk-Hann
40 ACRES
In a famine-decimated near future, Hailey Freeman and her family struggle to safeguard their generational farm as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
Photos courtesy of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
