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Arsinée Khanjian
Born: 6th Sep 1958 Beirut, Lebanon
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 46
Film: 42 (91%)
Television: 4 (9%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War
Filmography
2025
Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV. Is he the victim of an accidental 'door prize', or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide ... view
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Mayor Henze
2020
In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journa ... view
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2020
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting ou ... view
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Anna
Original title: Nous sommes Gold
2019
Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by h ... view
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Jan 2019 (first aired)
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with se ... view
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Muna Khalighi (1 ep.)
Original title: Tendresse
2018
It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the indivi ... view
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Original title: L'Autre côté de novembre
2016
Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably ... view
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Léa / Layla
Original title: Celui qu'on attendait
2016
Comedian Jean-Paul Bolzec has just performed in Azerbaijan. On the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandoned on a desert road ... view
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Tzarkanoush
2015
In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves u ... view
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Mona
2014
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife ... view
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La mère de Paul
2014
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughter ... view
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Frau Nakashian
2014
Eight years after their daughter Cassandra's abduction tore them apart, an estranged couple discover disturbing clues that indicate that she is still ... view
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Diane
Original title: Poupoupidou
2011
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selli ... view
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Juliette Geminy
2009
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Interne ... view
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Sabine
2007
Stone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armeni ... view
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Original title: La masseria delle allodole
2007
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes ... view
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Armineh
2005
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team. ... view
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Publishing Executive
2005
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind ... view
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Sabah
Oct 2004 (first aired)
ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ra ... view
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Eva Ramone (1 ep.)
2004
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers ... view
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Self (archive footage)
2002
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide. ... view
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Ani
Sep 2001 (first aired)
Foreign Objects was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 2001.
A short-run dramatic anthology series, the series was writte ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Original title: À ma sœur !
2001
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fift ... view
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Mother
Original title: Code inconnu
2000
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France ... view
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Francine
2000
Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real a ... view
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Anahid
1999
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager ... view
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Gala
Mar 1999 (first aired)
Foolish Heart was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1999. The series, a short run dramatic anthology, was produced and wr ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Original title: Fin août, début septembre
1999
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness. ... view
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Lucie
1998
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. ... view
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Streetcar Mother
1998
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollown ... view
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Arthur
1997
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha ... view
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Libba Cratchit
1997
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels ... view
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Sarah
1997
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives ... view
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Wanda Otto
1996
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires. ... view
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L'américaine
1995
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, w ... view
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Voice
1994
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th ... view
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Zoe
1993
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their d ... view
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Translator
Original title: Սիսեռ
1992
Raffi, Paul and Ohan grew up together in war-torn Beirut. Ten years later, we find the childhood friends in Hollywood, caught up in a tougher struggle ... view
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1991
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords. ... view
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Hera
Original title: Montréal vu par…
1991
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first ... view
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Rima
Original title: En passant
1991
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by ... view
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1990
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra. ... view
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Lisa
Original title: La boîte à soleil
1988
In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray worl ... view
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1987
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-do ... view
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Aline
1984
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all d ... view
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Azah Deryan