Sonja Smits

Sonja Smits

Sonja Smits is a Canadian actress recognized for her versatile performances across film, television, and theatre. She gained prominence for her role as Sara Fraser in the acclaimed Canadian television series "Street Legal." Smits' portrayal of the determined and skilled lawyer showcased her acting prowess and earned her critical acclaim. Additionally, she has been the lead in two other TV series, Traders and the Eleventh Hour, as well as many TV movies such as Margret Lawrence's The Diviners. Her feature films, include David Cronenberg's cult classic, "Videodrome" and "Owning Mahoney" with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sonja has received numerous honours and awards for her work including a Gemini Award-Best Actress, TWFT- Outstanding Achievement Award and ACTRA Award of Excellence. She was the first artist named as President of Harbourfront Centre Board, was a founding member of ACTRA Women's Caucus and served as Chair at Toronto Artscape Foundation. Sonja is the co-owner of Closson Chase Vineyards, a pioneer in the creation of the viticulture region of Prince Edward County.

  • Title: Sonja Smits
  • Popularity: 5.632
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1958-09-08
  • Place of Birth: Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada
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Sonja Smits Movies

  • 1983
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    Videodrome
    Videodrome

    7.282 1983 HD

    As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: James Woods

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  • 2003
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    Owning Mahowny
    Owning Mahowny

    6.779 2003 HD

    Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • 1981
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    The Pit
    The Pit

    5.705 1981 HD

    Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Sammy Snyders

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  • 2004
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    A Different Loyalty
    A Different Loyalty

    4.7 2004 HD

    In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Sharon Stone

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  • 2004
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    Siblings
    Siblings

    5.4 2004 HD

    Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alex Campbell

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  • 1994
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    TekWar: TekLords
    TekWar: TekLords

    5.3 1994 HD

    Drug lords take over the empire left by convicted Sonny Hokori.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Greg Evigan

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  • 2006
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    One Way
    One Way

    5.6 2006 HD

    To cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Til Schweiger

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  • 1994
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    Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
    Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes

    5 1994 HD

    When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks),...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Robert Urich

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  • 1998
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    Dead Husbands
    Dead Husbands

    4.7 1998 HD

    Dr. Carter Elson is a man who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's possessions. When Carter discovers his own name at the bottom of the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Nicollette Sheridan

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  • 2016
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    Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted
    Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted

    6.6 2016 HD

    Abby Knight, ex-lawyer and crime buff, and the owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, is having a week to be reckoned with. A reluctant bridesmaid at her...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Brooke Shields

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  • 1985
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    Command 5
    Command 5

    1 1985 HD

    A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Wings Hauser

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  • 2021
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    Drifting Snow
    Drifting Snow

    10 2021 HD

    Two strangers, Joanne (Sonja Smits) and Chris (Jonas Bonnetta) share a winter road trip through rural eastern Ontario. After losing her husband John...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sonja Smits

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  • 2021
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    Hidden Family Secrets
    Hidden Family Secrets

    6.1 2021 HD

    A woman determined to save her dying daughter uncovers her mother's sinister secret.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alex Paxton-Beesley

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  • 1999
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    Hidden Heroes
    Hidden Heroes

    1 1999 HD

    Two Canadian women return to the Netherlands to recount the terrifying ordeal they experienced as children at the hands of the Nazis, and to connect...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sonja Smits

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  • 1993
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    The Diviners
    The Diviners

    1 1993 HD

    Morag Gunn (Sonja Smits), a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Sonja Smits

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  • 2005
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    Heritage Minutes: Mona Parsons
    Heritage Minutes: Mona Parsons

    1 2005 HD

    Mona Parsons, a partisan World War II Allied agent in the Netherlands escapes execution and later imprisonment by the Nazis.

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    Cast: Sonja Smits

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  • 2003
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    How to Deal
    How to Deal

    5.472 2003 HD

    Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mandy Moore

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  • 2019
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    Heritage Minutes: D-Day
    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    1 2019 HD

    On June 6, 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. D-Day, as this day would become known, was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, led to...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Shanks

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  • 1986
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    Loose Ends
    Loose Ends

    3 1986 HD

    When the zealous followers of the Church of the Divine Light collide with the heathen filmmakers heaven help those caught in the middle! Bishop...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Colleen Camp

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  • 2023
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    Better Days
    Better Days

    1 2023 HD

    A widow finds a new lease on life through the joy of cosplay.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sonja Smits

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  • 1984
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    Face to Face
    Face to Face

    1 1984 HD

    Desperate transgender woman Nina Russell hires prominent, sleazy arrogant plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Hamilton to create an attractive face for...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Vaughn

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  • 2004
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    Odyssey 5
    Odyssey 5

    6.5 2004 HD

    Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada. Odyssey 5 is the...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Christopher Gorham

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  • 2000
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    Traders
    Traders

    8 2000 HD

    Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000. Set in the Toronto-based...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Cubitt

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  • 2005
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    The Eleventh Hour
    The Eleventh Hour

    4.8 2005 HD

    The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005. The show revolves around the reporters and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Bass

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  • 2002
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    The Outer Limits
    The Outer Limits

    7.785 2002 HD

    Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alex Diakun

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  • 2019
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    Street Legal
    Street Legal

    7 2019 HD

    Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994. It was revived for an additional season in 2019.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Eric Peterson

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  • 2012
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    Cybergeddon
    Cybergeddon

    5.9 2012 HD

    Framed for a cyber-crime she didn't commit, FBI Special Agent Chloe Jocelyn is forced to go on the run in order to prove her innocence.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Missy Peregrym

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  • 1991
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    The Hitchhiker
    The Hitchhiker

    6.115 1991 HD

    A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Page Fletcher

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  • 2001
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    Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
    Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

    6.9 2001 HD

    Chronicles the life of Judy Garland, from her first public performance in 1924 until her death.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Davis

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  • 2019
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    Mary Kills People
    Mary Kills People

    7.515 2019 HD

    Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, also moonlights as an underground angel of death - helping terminally ill patients who...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Caroline Dhavernas

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  • 1987
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    Airwolf
    Airwolf

    7.555 1987 HD

    As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Geraint Wyn Davies

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  • 2019
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    Ransom
    Ransom

    6.4 2019 HD

    Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Luke Roberts

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  • 2023
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    Ginny & Georgia
    Ginny & Georgia

    8.129 2023 HD

    Angsty and awkward fifteen year old Ginny Miller often feels more mature than her thirty year old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Antonia Gentry

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  • 2023
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    Pretty Hard Cases
    Pretty Hard Cases

    6.6 2023 HD

    A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Meredith MacNeill

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  • 2019
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    Save Me
    Save Me

    1 2019 HD

    Save Me drops us into random lives, mid-sentence. We get to know people through storylines that unravel with humour and pathos and a built-in ticking...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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