Arsinée Khanjian

Born: 1958-09-06

Arsinée Khanjian (born 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon Արսինէ Խանճեան) is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Her husband, Egoyan, credits her for inspiring him to further explore his Armenian roots. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arsinée Khanjian, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Exotica

as Zoe
Released: 1994-11-30

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive...

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The Captive

as Diane
Released: 2014-09-05

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate...

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Irma Vep

as L'américaine
Released: 1996-10-01

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime...

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Fat Girl

as Mother
Released: 2001-03-07

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older...

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Code Unknown

as Francine
Released: 2000-11-15

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the...

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Eden

as La mère de Paul
Released: 2014-11-19

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with...

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The Sweet Hereafter

as Wanda Otto
Released: 1997-09-25

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a...

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Last Night

as Streetcar Mother
Released: 1998-10-23

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the...

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Where the Truth Lies

as Publishing Executive
Released: 2005-10-07

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

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Ararat

as Ani
Released: 2002-05-20

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the...

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Late August, Early September

as Lucie
Released: 1999-02-10

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal...

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The Adjuster

as Hera
Released: 1991-11-27

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

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The Cut

as Frau Nakashian
Released: 2014-10-16

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech...

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Guest of Honour

as Anna
Released: 2020-07-09

Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted...

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Nobody Else But You

as Juliette Geminy
Released: 2011-01-12

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe...

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Adoration

as Sabine
Released: 2009-04-15

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story...

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Felicia's Journey

as Gala
Released: 1999-10-08

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead...

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The Lark Farm

as Armineh
Released: 2007-01-01

The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians,...

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Speaking Parts

as Lisa
Released: 1989-09-29

Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has...

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Family Viewing

as Aline
Released: 1987-09-09

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated...

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Sabah

as Sabah
Released: 2005-06-04

One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's...

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Montreal Stories

as Rima
Released: 1991-11-08

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic...

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Ms. Scrooge

as Libba Cratchit
Released: 1997-12-10

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita...

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We Are Gold

as uncredited
Released: 2019-03-29

Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her...

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Calendar

as Translator
Released: 1993-06-03

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project....

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Tenderness

as uncredited
Released: 2018-11-10

It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he...

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Next of Kin

as Azah Deryan
Released: 1984-11-30

Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears...

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Sentimental Education

as Arthur
Released: 1998-01-01

The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the...

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Sarabande

as Sarah
Released: 1997-10-24

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent...

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Atlit

as Mona
Released: 2015-01-21

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions...

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Lost in Armenia

as Tzarkanoush
Released: 2016-06-08

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In Passing

as uncredited
Released: 1991-11-08

A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with...

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The Box of Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1988-09-11

In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching...

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Bloodless: The Path to Democracy

as uncredited
Released: 2020-09-10

In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without...

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The Other Side of November

as Léa / Layla
Released: 2016-10-09

Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another...

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Stone Time Touch

as uncredited
Released: 2007-10-23

Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three...

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A Portrait of Arshile

as Voice
Released: 1995-01-01

Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed...

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Coroner

as Muna Khalighi
First aired: 2019-01-07

Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and...

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