Jackie Torrens is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
She began her career as an actress, most notably being cast as the frumpy but shrewd office manager Wanda Mattice in the television series Made in Canada in 1998.
[7] In 2013 she was cast as social worker Drucie Mackay in the television series Sex & Violence, for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.
[13] She has received several Robert Merritt Award nominations both as a playwright and as a stage actress.
[14] With Jessica Brown, she is a partner in Peep Media, and has also released the documentary films My Week on Welfare,[15] Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown, Radical Age and Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille.