Toronto-born actress Charlotte Sullivan is no stranger to show business. She's been acting in movies and television since the tender age of 12, and working along side such greats as Peter O'Toole, Drew Barrymore, Sam Niell and Amy Brenneman. Now, Sullivan will grace the small screen in four upcoming television miniseries, including Across the Road to Motor City - a primetime drama set to premiere on Citytv in Winnipeg on Tuesday, November 20 at 10 p.m. CT, and in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver on Thursday, November 22 at 10 p.m. ET/MT/PT

Early next year, Sullivan will also star in two CBC miniseries; M.V.P. and Iron Road, as well as in The Murdoch Mysteries, which will air on Citytv.

Produced by Devine Entertainment and Jonsworth Productions, Across the River to Motor City is a mini-series spanning two eras, two countries and two unforgettable characters. November 22, 1963, is Ben Ford's 30th birthday, the day he is determined to change his life. He is intent on asking his stewardess girlfriend Katie (Sullivan) to marry him and is ready to leave his job as an insurance investigator in the Windsor/Detroit area in search of something better. But when Katie disappears on the fateful day that also took the life of JFK, nothing is the same for Ben again.

Almost forty years later, Katie's body is discovered in a land reclamation project. Ben is now an old man with a grown daughter he barely knows, and has a lifetime of secrets and regrets he is trying to forget. When the police re-open the case, Ben's daughter Kathleen begins to unravel the secrets and lies at the heart of her troubled relationship with her father.

Citytv will debut Across the River in four cities, including Toronto on November 22nd, the 44th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

"I loved working with director Michael DeCarlo. He's got such a cryptic imagination," said Sullivan. "He has the ability to take something ugly and transform it into something beautiful. His shots are dark, twisted and stunning. Michael is intuitive and brilliant - his talents are magnificent. As far as I'm concerned he is light years ahead of the rest of us."

Earlier this year, television reporter Rob McKenzie of the National Post chose Across the River as one of his top picks for the Top 10 New Shows of the fall season.

John Doyle of the Globe and Mail also noted that the series was "perhaps the most ambitious of the new Canadian dramas."

Charlotte Sullivan was born and raised in Toronto. She landed her first role in 1996 playing Marion Hawthorne in the popular family movie Harriet the Spy. She then went on to earn a Young Artist Award nomination for her lead role in Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist, where she played opposite Amy Brenneman.

Since then Sullivan has played in several major Canadian series including Blue Murder, Radio Free Roscoe, Puppets Who Kill, This is Wonderland and Platinum. Her most recent movie credits include How to Deal and Fever Pitch. She will next be seen in her role as Mandy on the CBC miniseries M.V.P.

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