BIOGRAPHIES—CAST

   
Jonas Chernick as JOSEPH

Jonas's recent credits include the feature film “Seven Times Lucky”, in which he stars
opposite Kevin Pollak and Liane Balaban, and the TV movies “The Crooked E” (CBS),
“The Pentagon Papers” (FX), “The Glow” (Fox), “Defending our Kids” (Lifetime) and
“Eloise at the Plaza” (Disney/ABC), in which he co-starred opposite Julie Andrews.
Jonas was a regular in season one of CTV’s hour-long dramatic series “The Eleventh
Hour”, and has recently starred in a pair of short films funded by the Ontario Media
Development Corporation: “You Might Be The Youngest” and “Masterpiece Monday”.

In the past several years, he was also seen in Anne Wheeler's “Edge of Sanity”,
Miramax's “Paid in Full”, Regent Entertainment's “Nostradamus” and “A Woman is a
Helluva Thing”, UPN's “Life in a Day” and “Roswell: The Aliens Attack” and Sean
Garrity's award-winning short film “How Much for a Half Kilo?” Jonas’s television
appearances include guest roles on “The Adventures of Shirley Holmes” (YTV), “Queer
as Folk” (Showtime), “Doc” (PAX), “Mutant X” (Space) and Gene Rodenberry’s “Earth:
Final Conflict”.

Jonas now lives and works in Toronto, Canada and Los Angeles, California, dividing his
time between both cities.



 



Sarah Constible as LAURA

INERTIA was Sarah's first venture into the world of movie making. Since then, she has
appeared as charter law expert Cynthia Peterson in CBC's The Many Trials Of One Jane
Doe, as librarian Mary Jo in the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's story "Isis in
Darkness", and several TV movies including The Battle of Mary Kay, starring Shirley
Maclaine, and Defending My Children, starring Diane Keaton.

Her comedy troupe, The Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company, of which fellow Inertia
cast Gordon Tanner and Mike Bell are also members, created an hour long special under the direction of Canadian comedy icon Perry Rosemond which appeared on CBC TV in the summer of 2002. Selected theatre includes The Three Penny Opera, Richard III, The Edible Woman, Godspell, The Odyssey, and The Tempest. Sarah continues to live and
work in Winnipeg.



 

Gordon Tanner as BRUCE

Gordon's acting career began when he was working on his Master's degree in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba, when a wrong turn on campus led to auditions for a production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. He was cast in a major role and loved it so much he never went back to engineering.

Gordon is a member of the Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company, along with fellow INERTIA cast member Sarah Constible. Since forming in 1995, the seven members have collectively written and performed 14 full-length sketch comedy productions, which have been highly acclaimed by both critics and the public. In 1999 they produced a series pilot for the CBC with Winnipeg filmmaker John Paizs.

Gordon's theatre credits include an appearance with Ross MacMillan in Endgame in Winnipeg's Becket Fest 2000, and as Rosencrantz (and five other characters) in a national tour of Hamlet with the English Suitcase Theatre.

Gordon was one of the original actors who started working on INERTIA with Sean Garrity in 1999. Sean and Gordon had worked together on Sean's Prairie Music Award-nominated music video for Mark Reeves, as well as on a short film entitled "Buenos Aires Souvenir". When he was asked to join the project because of his years of experience in improvisational theatre, he jumped at the chance.

Gordon lives in Winnipeg where he and the other members of his theatre company are currently in negotiations with CBC to film a live sketch comedy special.



 

Micheline Marchildon as ALEX

Micheline was thrilled to combine her live improvisation skills with her on-camera experience. This was her first feature-length film. Her other feature film credits include MTV’s Everybody’s Doing It (role of Jamie); internationally acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin’s The Cock Crew; as well as many short films including Carole O’Brien’s En trois temps.

For television, she played the wacky bald alien “YoR”, for three seasons of the children's show Clan Destin, for French CBC television. And for Ontario’s TFO, she hosted two seasons of the wildlife series Unique Au Monde and starred in an episode of Histoire Max.

As well as stand-up, Micheline has written and performed two one-woman sketch comedy shows: She's Got it Sewed Together and Keeping It Sewed Together for the 2000 and 2001 Winnipeg Fringe Festivals. She has performed with Winnipeg theatre companies Le Cercle Molière, Heritage Theatre, La Ligue d'Improvisation du Manitoba, and Les Chiens de Soleil, as well as on francophone comedy specials for French CBC television.

Micheline is now living and working in Toronto, Canada.



 


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