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Jackie Torrens is a Canadian writer, actor, documentary-maker and journalist, best known for her CBC radio and television appearances, and for acting roles in the television series Made in Canada and Robson Arms. Her other film and television roles have included Marion Bridge, The Wild Dogs, Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making.
She also has a lead role as social worker Drucie MacKay on Thom Fitzgerald's new mini series Sex & Violence, airing on OUTtv in November 2013.
She is also a playwright, whose plays include Fables, Georama and Live! Nude! Animal!, as well as a writer for the television series Trailer Park Boys, Olliver's Adventures and TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens.
She and her brother Jonathan Torrens co-wrote 65 episodes of TV with TV’s Jonathan Torrens. Live! Nude! Animal!, which she also performed, was filmed for the Bravo Channel.
Her award-winning independent short film Pickled Punk is the story of a fetus in a jar and was narrated by Daniel MacIvor.
Torrens frequently contributes pieces and documentaries to, and guest hosts on, CBC radio programs in Nova Scotia. Documentaries include Teen Moms and The Collector, about a junk junkie who finds an important painting at a defrocked priest's estate auction. The latest is Camp Mini Ha Ha, about a group of miniaturists.
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