Murry Peeters
Known For: Acting
Biography
Murry Peeters is an award-winning actor, director and screenwriter. She’s a writer and co-producer on the upcoming series ROBYN HOOD. Her acting screen credits include NBC’s TAKEN, FAR CRY 5 and SEE. Peeters’ past acting experience enables her to write material populated by richly diverse and layered characters. She was selected to participate in the inaugural class of the WarnerMedia Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program. She is also an alumna of the Canadian Film Center's 2018 Writers' Lab, a 2018 Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award recipient and a Netflix-Banff 2019 & 2020 Diversity of Voices participant, Black Women Film! Big Up Producer's Residency 2023, Women in the Director's Chair Career Advancement Module 2023. Peeters spearheaded #StartWith8HollywoodNorth, a program aimed at connecting industry leaders and emerging women and non-binary, BIPOC creatives. Her short film, which she wrote and directed, WOMAN MEETS GIRL, screened at Queer Screen's 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival and BFI Flare, among others. It won Best Canadian Short and Best Performance at the Vancouver Short Film Festival and Best Romance and Best LGBT at the Sunday Shorts Festival. It was also nominated for a DGC Award for Best Short Film, and Best Scripted at the Yorkton Film Festival.
Filmography
2024
- Upon Her Lips: Hold Me Tight ... (Director)
2023
- Woman Meets Girl ... (Director)
- Robyn Hood ... (Co-Producer)
2021
- Maid as Kyla
2020
2019
- See as Shiloh
- Infiltrator as Agent Thorn
2018
- Prodigals as Murry
2017
- Taken as Isabel Edu
- When We Rise as Black Lesbian (uncredited)
2016
- Lucifer as Janet
- Designated Survivor as Sipiwe Moyo
- Aftermath as Maizie
2015
- Wayward Pines as Tracy Salzman
- Killjoys as Tuck
- Ties That Bind as Karen
2014
- The 100 as Laughing Kid
- Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce as Jill
- The Grim Sleeper as Ebony King
2013
- Almost Human as Uniformed Cop #1
2011
- The Killing as Janice Gibbs (as Murry Peters)
2010
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as Somnambula (voice)
2008
- Murdoch Mysteries as Queenie Dowson
2005
- Supernatural as Deputy