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, No Men Beyond This Point and Donkeyhead.[citation needed]
^ abc"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, 31 October 2008.
^"Stargate, Stone of Destiny lead B.C.'s Leo Award nominations". The Georgia Straight, 6 April 2009.
^"Performers proud of diversity in Canadian Screen Award noms". Telegraph-Journal, 21 January 2016.
^"Real-life local crisis transforms to genuinely gripping theatre". Vancouver Sun, 19 November 2005.
^"Gaggle of giggles keeps new comedy afloat". Vancouver Sun, 23 April 2010.
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