Murry Peeters

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Place of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As Murry Peters

Murry Peeters

Biography

Murry Peeters is an award-winning actor, director and screenwriter. She’s a writer and co-producer on the upcoming series ROBYN HOOD. Her acting screen credits include NBC’s TAKEN, FAR CRY 5 and SEE. Peeters’ past acting experience enables her to write material populated by richly diverse and layered characters. She was selected to participate in the inaugural class of the WarnerMedia Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program. She is also an alumna of the Canadian Film Center's 2018 Writers' Lab, a 2018 Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award recipient and a Netflix-Banff 2019 & 2020 Diversity of Voices participant, Black Women Film! Big Up Producer's Residency 2023, Women in the Director's Chair Career Advancement Module 2023. Peeters spearheaded #StartWith8HollywoodNorth, a program aimed at connecting industry leaders and emerging women and non-binary, BIPOC creatives. Her short film, which she wrote and directed, WOMAN MEETS GIRL, screened at Queer Screen's 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival and BFI Flare, among others. It won Best Canadian Short and Best Performance at the Vancouver Short Film Festival and Best Romance and Best LGBT at the Sunday Shorts Festival. It was also nominated for a DGC Award for Best Short Film, and Best Scripted at the Yorkton Film Festival.

Known For

Actor

2021
Maid

as Kyla

2019
Infiltrator

as Agent Thorn

2019
See

as Shiloh

2018
Prodigals

as Murry

2017
Taken

as Isabel Edu

2017
When We Rise

as Black Lesbian (uncredited)

2016
Aftermath

as Maizie

2016
Designated Survivor

as Sipiwe Moyo

2016
Lucifer

as Janet

2015
2015
Killjoys

as Tuck

2015
Wayward Pines

as Tracy Salzman

2014
The Grim Sleeper

as Ebony King

2014
The 100

as Laughing Kid

2013
Almost Human

as Uniformed Cop #1

2011
The Killing

as Janice Gibbs (as Murry Peters)

2010
2008
Murdoch Mysteries

as Queenie Dowson

2005
Supernatural

as Deputy

Director

2023
Woman Meets Girl

as Director

Producer

2023
Robyn Hood

as Co-Producer