Laara Sadiq

Laara Sadiq is an award-winning actor with over 25 years’ experience in theatre, film, television and voice-over across Canada and the US. Her work has taken her from Vancouver, BC to St. Johns, Newfoundland, and in the US from San Francisco, CA to Washington DC. She holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia.
 
Recent film and TV credits include recurring roles on Arrow (Guest Star/The CW), Remedy (Supporting /Global TV) and Heartland (Guest Star / CBC);  Search and Destroy, Colony, The Crossing, The Arrangement, Eyewitness, The Code, The Strain, The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Rogue;  Special Correspondents (Feature / Dir: Ricky Gervias), Happily Ever After (Feature / Dir: Joan Carr-Wiggin).
 
Selected feature films: Stepchild, The Dick Knost Show, A Night for Dying Tigers, Excited – Leo Award Best Actress (TIFF, Palm Springs Film Festival), The Invisible, Antarctica,  Willard, Josie and the Pussycats, American Venus, Live Bait. As a voice-over artist, Laara can be heard in cartoons, documentary narration, audiobooks and radio/TV commercials throughout Canada and the US.  She was recently honoured with a nomination for Outstanding Voice Performance at the Annie Awards in LA, for her work in The Breadwinner.  This animated feature film, executive produced by Angelina Jolie, was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award, and was the recipient of the LA Film Critics Circle Award, the Annie Award for Best Independent Feature, and  the Cinema for Peace Justice Award.