{{Short description|Canadian actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Liza Balkan | image = <!-- just the name, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- Valid citation required for date of birth for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> | birth_place = | nationality = | other_names = | citizenship = | alma_mater = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | website = <!-- {lizabalkan.org}} --> }}
'''Liza Balkan''' is a Canadian Theatre Artist, Director, Educator, Writer and Actor <ref name=uw/>
==Career== She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in ''Still the Night'' (Theatre Passe Muraille/Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour).<ref name=uw>{{cite web |url= http://www.uwindsor.ca/drama/liza-balkan |title=Liza Balkan |publisher=University of Windsor|accessdate=22 May 2011}}</ref> She is also known as the voice actress for Amy Mizuno from the third and fourth seasons of the English adaptation of ''Sailor Moon''.<ref name="Erickson2005">{{cite book|author=Hal Erickson, Hal|title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eQLAQAAMAAJ| format = via Google Books | accessdate=22 May 2011|page=705|date=July 2005|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0-7864-2256-2}}</ref>
On the silver screen, she had a role in Asghar Massombagi's ''Khaled'' (2001) and appeared in Atom Egoyan's critically acclaimed drama ''Remember'' (2015), portraying the daughter-in-law of Christopher Plummer's protagonist in the latter.
Balkan teaches at the University of Windsor, located in Windsor, Ontario.<ref name=uw/>
;Directing credits * ''Opera Brief's 6 & 7'' (Tapestry New Opera Works) * ''Skylight and Trying'' (Persephone Theatre) * ''Half an Hour'' (Shaw Festival Director's Project) * ''Bunnicula'' (Theatre Athena) * ''Orchids'' (Marquis Ent.) * ''Good Woman of Setzuan'' * ''Enemies'' (premiere, Ryerson Theatre School ) * ''Pavlov's Brother'' (Toronto Fringe Festival)
;Performances * ''Sylvia'' (Belfry Theatre) * ''It's All True'' (Great Canadian Theatre Company) * ''The Winter's Tale'' (National Arts Centre) * ''The Stronger Variations'' (Theatre Rusticle/Harbourfront) * ''Golda's Balcony'' (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre) * ''West Side Story'' (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.)
'''Voice roles''' * ''Sailor Moon'' (Sailor Mercury/Amy Mizuno)
==See also== {{portal|Biography|Film|Theatre|Television}} * List of Canadian actors * List of Canadian directors * List of people from Windsor, Ontario {{clear}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0050298}} * Official Web site: [http://www.lizabalkan.com www.lizabalkan.com] * {{Twitter}}
{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Karen Bernstein | title = Voice of Sailor Mercury | years = Eps. 83 - 159 | after = Kate Higgins }} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Balkan, Liza}} Category:Canadian film actresses Category:Canadian stage actresses Category:Canadian television actresses Category:Canadian theatre directors Category:Canadian women theatre directors Category:Canadian voice actresses Category:Dora Mavor Moore Award winners Category:Living people Category:Academic staff of University of Windsor Category:21st-century Canadian actresses Category:1956 births Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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