Brigitte Bako
| Brigitte Bako | |
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May 15, 1967 (age 49) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Brigitte Bako (born May 15, 1967) is a Canadian actress known for her role on Red Shoe Diaries. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy G-Spot.
Life and career
Bako was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Jewish parents. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor.[1]
She trained with the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and acted with the Canadian National Shakespeare Company.
She has starred in Hollywood productions, numerous Canadian-made movies, and films made in Canada by American producers. Bako's first major break was in Martin Scorsese’s New York Stories. She co-starred with David Duchovny and Billy Wirth in Red Shoe Diaries; Benjamin Bratt and Michael Keaton in One Good Cop; and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days. Saint Monica was featured at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and Bako received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bako also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress in 1993. She starred in I Love a Man in Uniform, her first collaboration with Canadian producer Robert Lantos.
In addition to having the starring role, Bako makes her writing and executive producing debut in G-Spot. She currently maintains homes in New York and Los Angeles.
Bako worked with David Duchovny again in a 2007 episode of the Showtime series Californication (Episode 9, "Filthy Lucre," as a Porsche saleswoman).
She voiced Angela in Gargoyles and Monique Dupre in Godzilla: The Series.
Filmography
- One Good Cop (1991)
- Red Shoe Diaries (TV-1992)
- Fifteenth Phase of the Moon (TV-1992)
- I Love a Man in Uniform (1993)
- Dark Tide (1993)
- Replikator (1994)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Irving (1995)
- Double Take (1997)
- Dinner and Driving (1997)
- The Escape (1997)
- The Week That Girl Died (1998)
- Paranoia (1998)
- Primary Suspect (2000)
- Wrong Number (2001)
- Sweet Revenge (2001)
- Saint Monica (2002)
- Who's the Top? (2005)
TV series
- Gargoyles (voice, 1994)
- 3x3 Eyes (voice, 1995)
- Godzilla: The Series (voice, 1998)
- The Mind of the Married Man (2001)
- The Atwood Stories (2003, episode "Isis in Darkness")
- Law & Order (2004, episode "Darwinian")
- G-Spot (2005–2009)
- Californication (2007, episode "Filthy Lucre")