Balinder Johal

Balinder Johal is an Indo-Canadian actress.[1] She is best known for her roles in the films of Deepa Mehta, including Heaven on Earth, for which she was a Leo Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 2009,[2] and Beeba Boys, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[3]

Originally from Punjab,[1] Johal was educated in India before moving to Canada to pursue a master's degree in education at the University of British Columbia.[1]

As a stage actress, her most noted performances included Here and Now, a forum theatre play about urban gang violence in Vancouver,[4] and Anosh Irani's play My Granny the Goldfish.[5] She has also performed in guest appearances in the television series The Chris Isaak Show, Da Vinci's Inquest, 49th & Main, Aliens in America, Psych, Smallville and Sanctuary, and minor roles in the films Freddy Got Fingered, Josie and the Pussycats and No Men Beyond This Point.

References
  1. "Monster-in-law, India style; Vancouver's Balinder Johal finds a well of astonishing villainy as a controlling matriarch in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth". Vancouver Sun, October 31, 2008.
  2. "Stargate, Stone of Destiny lead B.C.'s Leo Award nominations". The Georgia Straight, April 6, 2009.
  3. "Performers proud of diversity in Canadian Screen Award noms". Telegraph-Journal, January 21, 2016.
  4. "Real-life local crisis transforms to genuinely gripping theatre". Vancouver Sun, November 19, 2005.
  5. "Gaggle of giggles keeps new comedy afloat". Vancouver Sun, April 23, 2010.


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