Canadian-born, LA-based actress Amanda Brugel is wrapping up the best year of her professional career, but 2008 promises to be even better times for the up-and-coming talent.

Brugel has starring roles in two upcoming Canadian series: season three of Showcase’s Paradise Falls, and CBC’s much buzzed about hockey soap opera, MVP. She can also currently be seen as the face of CIBC’s television, print and online advertising campaign.

Her MVP character, Megan Chandler, is the wife of one of the players on the fictional Mustangs hockey team. Equal parts caring, outspoken, generous and aggressive, Megan is the den mother to the other hockey wives.

By contrast, her Paradise Falls character, Lynnie Jordan is a cold, calculating lesbian who married young to escape her parents, and is now attempting to blackmail her ex-husband to pay for her new wedding.

“What I love about these characters is that they are two sides of the same coin,” says Brugel. “Both are smart, with the ability to control those around them. The difference is that while Megan uses her powers for good, Lynnie uses them for evil!”

Hailing from Montreal, QC, Brugel burst onto the Canadian dance and theatre scene at the tender age of 12 in the National Ballet of Alberta production of Cinderella. Continuing to hone her craft in high school plays, Brugel earned a spot in York University's prestigious theatre program by winning the coveted Fine Arts Talent Scholarship. After some work with local theatre companies, Brugel made her film debut alongside Christopher Walken in 1999's Vendetta.

Since then she has had many successful film outings, including A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000) with Vanessa L. Williams, ber-horror Jason X (2000), 10,000 Black Men Named George (2001) directed by Robert Townsend, Montreal indie coup Jack & Ella (2002) and Category Six (2005) opposite Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest.

Poised to become another one Canada's most prized entertainment exports, Brugel has also left her mark on the international television landscape. Brugel has made a countless number of guest appearances on television shows that include Soul Food (2002), The Newsroom (2003), Doc (2003), Wild Card (2004), Kevin Hill (2004), Kojak (2005), Naked Josh (2005), and This Is Wonderland (2006). Recently, Brugel completed a CBS pilot, written by dynamic duo Mutchnick & Kohan and helmed by celebrated director James Burrows.

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