Hannah Cheesman is a CSA-nominated actor, writer and filmmaker based in Toronto and LA. Named one of Playback’s 2015 “Five to Watch” and a 2014 TIFF Emerging Canadian Filmmaker, Hannah’s hit digital series “Whatever, Linda” has won 16 awards worldwide, most recently scooping up the top prize during Cannes’ inaugural ‘Canneseries In Development’ competition (2018). The series is in development as an hourlong cable series with Bell Media, alongside EP Graeme Manson (showrunner “Orphan Black”, TNT’s “Snowpiercer”). Hannah’s first feature film as a co-director, “The Definites”, showed at festivals across North America and is now available on Crave in Canada and Amazon worldwide. Hannah is also an award-winning short filmmaker: her most recent short, the Bravo-funded “Emmy”, won the 2018 National Screen Institute’s A&E Short Filmmaker’s Award. Her other shorts have not only won awards around the globe, they’ve shown at such festivals as Cannes “Coup de Coeur”, Palm Springs Shortsfest, Whistler, Miami, Maryland and countless more, selling to Europe, Japan and Canada. Notably, her short film “Cheese” has shown at over 20 film festivals across the glove, winning 3 awards. As a writer, Hannah has worked on such shows as “Workin’ Moms” (Netflix) and “Find Me in Paris” (Hulu), as well as in the writers room of “Orphan Black” (BBCA/Bell). In 2019, Hannah debuted on CBS All Access’ second season of “Star Trek: Discovery”, as Airiam 2.5 to great acclaim. Hannah can also be seen on such shows as “Schitt’s Creek”, Syfy’s “Defiance”, “Murdoch Mysteries” and It reboot director-producer team’s first feature film “Mama” (EP Guillermo del Toro). Next up, Hannah’s NFB-produced short film “The Afterlife of Colm Feore” will be released in May 2019.
