Joanne Vannicola Biography
Joanne Vannicola is a Canadian actress. She is famously known for her roles as Dr. Naadiah in Being Erica on Netflix. She is also known as Dr. Mia Stone in PSI Factor. She is also greatly recognized as Sam in Stonewall, and Renee in Slasher: Guilty Party. Apart from her screen appearances, she has also voiced a number films.
Among her voice roles include; Crash Canyon and My Dad the Rock Star. She began her career as a child. Later on, she moved to Toronto, Ontario in her teens to attend the Toronto School for the Performing Arts. She made her first major appearance in the teen drama series 9B.
For her work, she received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Role in 1989. Two years later, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Children’s Special in Maggie’s Secret.
In 1994 she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Love and Human Remains. She has also appeared in a number of films and television series. Among them include; Common Ground, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Rookie Blue, Slasher, Degrassi, Stardom, Betrayal of Silence, The Ultimate Betrayal among others.
She received an ACTRA Award nomination for Best Voice Performance in 2009. In the year 2017, she wrote and directed her first short film, SNIP. Apart from her career as an actress, she is a founder of not for profit organization to raise awareness about child abuse, Youth Out Loud.
Joanne Vannicola Photo
She founded the organisation in 2004. As an out lesbian, she was also a prominent campaigner for same-sex marriage in Canada.
Joanne Vannicola Age
Joanne Vannicola was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was born in the year 1968. Her actual date and month are not yet known. Her age is currently either 50 or 51 years old as of 2019.
Joanne Vannicola Net Worth
Joanne has accumulated a huge fortune from her career as an actress. She is famously known for her roles as Dr. Naadiah in Being Erica on Netflix. She is also known as Dr. Mia Stone in PSI Factor. She is also greatly recognized as Sam in Stonewall, and Renee in Slasher: Guilty Party. Apart from her screen appearances, she has also voiced a number films.
Among her voice roles include; Crash Canyon and My Dad the Rock Star. She began her career as a child. Later on, she moved to Toronto, Ontario in her teens to attend the Toronto School for the Performing Arts.
She made her first major appearance in the teen drama series 9B. Joanne Vannicola has an approximated net worth that runs into millions. Her net worth is currently under review. We will update you on more information immediately we get it.
Joanne Vannicola Wife | Joanne Vannicola Lesbian
Joanne Vannicola is publicly lesbian. She was once in love with a woman. However the two ended the relationship because the love of her life was married to a man. It is not clear whether she is currently in any relationship. We are still trying to find out about her love life. We will update you immediately we get factual information.
Joanne Vannicola Movies And TV Shows | Joanne Vannicola Slasher
Joanne Vannicola Movies
- 2015 Stonewall
- 2013 The Animal Project
- 2000 Stardom
- 1997 Hysteria
- 1995 Iron Eagle on the Attack
- 1993 Love and Human Remains
- 1986 Toby McTeague
- 1982 Hard Feelings (film)
Joanne Vannicola Television Shows
- 2019 Slasher: Solstice
- 2017 Sea Change
- 2017 Slasher: Guilty Party
- 2016 Slasher: The Executioner
- 2014 Degrassi: The Next Generation
- 2003 Thoughtcrimes
- 2002 Relic Hunter
- 2002 Mutant X
- 2001 The Wandering Soul Murders
- 2001 What Makes a Family
- 1994 To Save the Children
- 1990 CBS Schoolbreak Special
- 1989 Men
- 1987 Taking Care of Terrific
- 1987 Street Legal
- 1986 9B
Joanne Vannicola Emmy
For her work in 9B, Joanne Vannicola received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Role in 1989. Two years later, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Children’s Special in Maggie’s Secret.
In 1994 she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Love and Human Remains. She has also appeared in a number of films and television series. Among them include; Common Ground, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Rookie Blue, Slasher, Degrassi, Stardom, Betrayal of Silence, The Ultimate Betrayal among others.
She received an ACTRA Award nomination for Best Voice Performance in 2009.
Joanne Vannicola Interview
Q: When you learned to love.
Joanne Vannicola: I was a child in love with tap shoes, music, my dance teacher, my animals, and my siblings—deeply important types of love that spoke to my soul and kept me going through some very difficult times. I’m not sure I would have had the language to express that as a child; I, only knew that the capacity for love was great, bigger than my body, and bigger than any one person. But it wasn’t from my parents that I learned to love.
Q: Your first cut, was it the deepest?
Joanne Vannicola: I have had two first loves, one with a boy when I was young teen and one with a woman when I came out. They were both deep and equally filled with the fullness of falling in love for the first time. It is possible to love like an adolescent more than once as it turns out!
Q: Your love who got away.
Joanne Vannicola: Oh, this is tragic. I was always told never to fall for a straight woman and I did (sort of) but I didn’t know she was straight.
Joanne Vannicola: Being lesbian is not only about sexuality, though certainly it is a part of it. But, for me, being LGBTQ is an identity, a way of life, part of my DNA, my culture. I bring that identity everywhere I go in the world. It’s visible, it’s in my language, my work, my art, and my relationships. So, I fell quick and hard for a woman who I thought was a lesbian. And she was interested.
Joanne Vannicola: Then I learned she had a husband. I didn’t want to pursue anyone who was in any relationship, queer or not, so everything from there was about loss. Losing her love, losing her friendship. She’s out now, by the way, but when she came out, she no longer wanted me.
See? It’s just tragedy.
Q: Your “type” – and why.
Joanne Vannicola: I don’t have a type in the physical sense, not that I am aware of. I am drawn to feminists, to people with passion, compassion, people who are aware of what is going on in the world, who are left of center, artists, people who care about social justice.
Q: Is this sounding like a dating match response to a questionnaire?
Joanne Vannicola: Mostly, it would have to be someone who would love so deeply and want only the best for (and in) a partner. Imagine that type of love? Where someone wants the other’s life to be beautiful and fulfilled?
Q: Your favourite literary romance.
Joanne Vannicola: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. When I read that book I wept. I related to it in so many ways, and the women who fall in love with each other are such great characters: lesbians finding their way in the world, from the theatre, to the streets of London, to falling in love and then the heartbreak of losing that first love. It’s beautifully crafted, a period piece, and worth reading every one of its 470 pages.
Q: Your thoughts on friends being lovers.
Joanne Vannicola: I don’t know if I have thoughts about this.
Q: Your thoughts on the net amounts of pleasure and pain.
Joanne Vannicola: Well this question is odd. Who wants pain? Let me rephrase that, I do not want pain. I’ve had enough of that.
After coming out, I learned that there was a lot of collective pain in the LGBTQ community because we have not achieved full equality, and this pain would trickle down into all of my relationships in some way: whether some partners were out or not out, or family members were homophobic, then there was also internalized homophobia to deal with (not to mentioned internalized sexism).
Q: Your story about unrequited love.
Joanne Vannicola: When I was a teen, I had hopeless crushes on other girls. But the woman who got away (above) is my real story of unrequited love.
Q: Your favourite author/artist on love.
Joanne Vannicola: Oh there are so many! Poets and song writers are so gifted around expressions of love, so immediate: Audre Lorde (genius) and Adele (makes me cry all the time). But also writers and filmmakers. Love is in all art forms, even in the stroke of a brush or the expression in a photograph. So: Georgia O’Keefe, John Lennon, Susan Sontag, Larry Kramer, Maya Angelou, Barbra Streisand, K.D. Lang, Ray Charles, Janis Joplin. Oh so many! Or movies: Wings of Desire, Harold and Maude, The Normal Heart. Too many artists I love to list. I could go on and on, perhaps because love is the root; painful or not, it’s the stuff that makes us create.
Q: Your reconciliation of the domestic and the erotic.
Joanne Vannicola: This is abstract to me. I have nothing to say about it. (For a change! LOL.)
Q: Your thoughts on marriage.
Joanne Vannicola: That’s a big one. Not sure I can adequately answer this briefly. For many years when gay marriage was not legal, I was out at protests and marches, giving speeches, making waves. It was a long battle that we finally won in this country. And doesn’t it seem odd now, the idea that LGBTQ people could not marry once upon a time? Though it was not long ago that we won the right to marry, and as easily as those rights have been won, they could be taken away (as we see politicians in the States trying to do). There are countries around the world where being queer is still a crime or punishable by death. I’m not sure if I will ever get married, but as long as LGBTQ people can equally marry and divorce within the same shitty system as heterosexual people, then that is still a victory!
Q: Love changes when you have children.
Joanne Vannicola: That’s why I say, “Don’t have children!” Kidding. I mean, if you want children, go for it, but what do I know about having children? I only know what it is to have parents, and let’s just say that was no great adventure in love or family.
Joanne Vannicola: I’m going to go for the queer teens who need new families when I think I’m grown up enough myself to take on that responsibility. Every question is filtered for me around being LGBTQ. I do think queer people work very hard at being parents and, I may be biased, but I believe queer parents make great parents because more often than not, we have to work harder at creating those families, either through the system, or getting donors, or finding partners to co-parent with. There are no accidents, shall we say, when LGBTQ people start families. But I’m all about finding houses for children who have no parents or who are homeless. There are so many.
Q: Your thoughts on resisting temptation.
Joanne Vannicola: Life is too short to resist temptation. I think it’s far more fun and healthier to smoke that joint, drink that wine, or kiss someone you want to kiss. Resisting temptation is a form of repression in some ways, something I think religions attempt to enforce. I don’t think it’s healthy: it leads to criminal behaviors, oppression, depression, violence. It’s just not worth it.
Q: Your advice on breaking up.
Joanne Vannicola: I’m the last person to give advice. Break ups, endings, goodbyes, loss are the hardest things. I like to be friends with the people I’ve shared my life with, if it’s at all possible. I know it’s not always, but wouldn’t it be lovely if people could break up amicably? I can’t say that was always the case with me, but I wish it could have been. I still love the women I’ve been partnered with. I don’t mean in love, but I just love the people, even the ones I no longer speak with, even the ones where it was difficult. I just wish happiness for the women I’ve loved.
Q: The influence of love on your work.
Joanne Vannicola: Love influences everything, even the lack of love, the desire for love, the loss of it, grief of it, joy of it. Without love, I wouldn’t be able to write, act, direct, be an advocate—there would be no passion, and that is the most despairing thought.
Q: Your lessons from love.
Joanne Vannicola: Love has been fleeting. It’s hard when you come from a broken home, a violent history. There is no foundation of love. I have never experienced unconditional love, so it’s foreign. But I’ve known love, and love is about more than humans: it’s about animals, plants, the earth—all living things.
Q: Your thoughts on infidelity – one night stand, fling, or affair.
Joanne Vannicola: What other people do is their choice, but I don’t think infidelity is healthy, hence my story earlier about falling for and leaving a woman who was married. I did not cross the boundary with her, even though I wanted to. It was a choice I made because I didn’t want to hurt the other person. I have always been aware of how horrible it would be to learn your partner has had an affair, and so I didn’t ever want to be the person who did that. It just leads to heartache and drama.
Joanne Vannicola: Non-monogamy is another issue. If people have open relationships then that is different. However, I prefer one person at a time. And if someone is not able to be honest and is willing to cheat and break a heart, well, it means something is missing, flawed, not working in the relationship or for the individual who turns outward for affection. Better to focus on healing what is broken or not working. But again, I can’t say I’m an authority on relationships. I just know that I wouldn’t want to be cheated on, and do not want to have affairs with someone who has a partner. No more drama, thank you.
Q: Your feelings about the existence of a soulmate.
Joanne Vannicola: Well I’m a romantic at heart I think, even though I haven’t found a soulmate. But maybe it doesn’t exist, this notion of one soulmate. Some people stay together until death, and maybe it’s even possible to have more than one soulmate. If you can love different people in a lifetime, then perhaps love is all about souls finding each other, and that can happen multiple times. I have loved different women and loved deeply. I wouldn’t know how to love in any other way but with all my soul.
Q: Your ideal love: madness or redemption?
Joanne Vannicola: I don’t know about either of these options. Is there another one?
Q: Your advice on making love last.
Joanne Vannicola: I have no advice, other than love while you can. Love with your whole being. I don’t have any magic answers on making love last: just love each day, love from the morning until night. Take nothing for granted.
SOURCE: http://donttalktomeaboutlove.org/