Yanna McIntosh

Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian stage, film and television actress. Yanna honed her craft at the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. Her teaching roles at the National Theatre School and Humber College included directing students in acclaimed productions like Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III. Her portrayal of Pat Barrows in the 2006 TV movie "Doomstown" earned her a 2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role. Notably, McIntosh made history in 2011 as the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in "Ruined," which also garnered her a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance. She had previously won Doras for her roles in Florence Gibson’s "Belle" and Athol Fugard’s "Valley Song."

John Q (2002)

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nick Cassavetes
CAST:  Denzel Washington  •  Robert Duvall  •  Anne Heche  •  Kimberly Elise

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nick Cassavetes
CAST:  Denzel Washington  •  Robert Duvall  •  Anne Heche  •  Kimberly Elise

The Sentinel (2006)

A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a relentless FBI agent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clark Johnson
CAST:  Michael Douglas  •  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Eva Longoria  •  Martin Donovan

A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a relentless FBI agent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clark Johnson
CAST:  Michael Douglas  •  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Eva Longoria  •  Martin Donovan

True Blue (2001)

Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  J.S. Cardone
CAST:  Tom Berenger  •  Lori Heuring  •  Pamela Gidley  •  Barry Newman

Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  J.S. Cardone
CAST:  Tom Berenger  •  Lori Heuring  •  Pamela Gidley  •  Barry Newman

Spooky House (2002)

A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Sachs
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Mercedes Ruehl  •  Matt Weinberg  •  Jason Fuchs

A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Sachs
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Mercedes Ruehl  •  Matt Weinberg  •  Jason Fuchs

Bloodwork (2012)

A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Wostenberg
CAST:  Travis Van Winkle  •  Tricia Helfer  •  Eric Roberts  •  James Purcell

A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Wostenberg
CAST:  Travis Van Winkle  •  Tricia Helfer  •  Eric Roberts  •  James Purcell

Murder on Shadow Mountain (1999)

Denny Traynor has the idyllic life a loving wife and family, a flourishing career. Seems like life is perfect until some policemen from another break into their home one night and arrest him for a twenty year old murder. Initially, Denny denies the accusations made ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dick Lowry
CAST:  Michele Lee  •  Peter Coyote  •  Rex Linn  •  J. Winston Carroll

Denny Traynor has the idyllic life a loving wife and family, a flourishing career. Seems like life is perfect until some policemen from another break into their home one night and arrest him for a twenty year old murder. Initially, Denny denies the accusations made ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dick Lowry
CAST:  Michele Lee  •  Peter Coyote  •  Rex Linn  •  J. Winston Carroll

Finn's Girl (2007)

Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominique Cardona  •  Laurie Colbert
CAST:  Andrew Chalmers  •  Brooke Johnson  •  Richard Clarkin  •  Chantel Cole

Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dominique Cardona  •  Laurie Colbert
CAST:  Andrew Chalmers  •  Brooke Johnson  •  Richard Clarkin  •  Chantel Cole

Chasing Freedom (2004)

New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced by a growing sense ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don McBrearty
CAST:  Juliette Lewis  •  Layla Alizada  •  Bruce Gray  •  Michael David Simms

New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced by a growing sense ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don McBrearty
CAST:  Juliette Lewis  •  Layla Alizada  •  Bruce Gray  •  Michael David Simms

A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenny Leon
CAST:  Sean Combs  •  Morgan Freeman  •  Sanaa Lathan  •  Audra McDonald

Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenny Leon
CAST:  Sean Combs  •  Morgan Freeman  •  Sanaa Lathan  •  Audra McDonald

Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006)

Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Werner
CAST:  Sarah Chalke  •  Jay Harrington  •  Lally Cadeau  •  Harvey Atkin

Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Werner
CAST:  Sarah Chalke  •  Jay Harrington  •  Lally Cadeau  •  Harvey Atkin

Down in the Delta (1998)

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maya Angelou
CAST:  Alfre Woodard  •  Al Freeman Jr.  •  Esther Rolle  •  Mary Alice

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maya Angelou
CAST:  Alfre Woodard  •  Al Freeman Jr.  •  Esther Rolle  •  Mary Alice

Unless (2016)

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Gilsenan
CAST:  Catherine Keener  •  Matt Craven  •  Hannah Gross  •  Chloe Rose

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Gilsenan
CAST:  Catherine Keener  •  Matt Craven  •  Hannah Gross  •  Chloe Rose

Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra (2015)

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Avrich  •  Gary Griffin
CAST:  Yanna McIntosh  •  Ben Carlson  •  Geraint Wyn Davies  •  Tom McCamus

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Avrich  •  Gary Griffin
CAST:  Yanna McIntosh  •  Ben Carlson  •  Geraint Wyn Davies  •  Tom McCamus

Mary Goes Round (2018)

When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Molly McGlynn
CAST:  Aya Cash  •  Sara Waisglass  •  John Ralston  •  Melanie Nicholls-King

When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Molly McGlynn
CAST:  Aya Cash  •  Sara Waisglass  •  John Ralston  •  Melanie Nicholls-King

Like a House on Fire (2021)

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jesse Noah Klein
CAST:  Sarah Sutherland  •  Jared Abrahamson  •  Dominique Provost-Chalkley  •  Margaux Vaillancourt

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jesse Noah Klein
CAST:  Sarah Sutherland  •  Jared Abrahamson  •  Dominique Provost-Chalkley  •  Margaux Vaillancourt

Slumberland (2022)

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Lawrence
CAST:  Jason Momoa  •  Kyle Chandler  •  Chris O'Dowd  •  Marlow Barkley

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Lawrence
CAST:  Jason Momoa  •  Kyle Chandler  •  Chris O'Dowd  •  Marlow Barkley