All Things Lauren

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To celebrate International Women's Day, Lauren Lee Smith will be modeling in the fifth annual The Heart Truth fashion show at Toronto's Hotel Carlu tomorrow night, in support of The Heart and Stroke Foundation.

In other news, Laurens' latest film, Three Days in Havana, directed by Gil Bellows, is currently in post-production.

( More info about tomorrow's show )

Picture from The Listener Official Site

As announced yesterday morning, Lauren Lee Smith has been nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Actress in a Drama, this time for her role as Sargeant Michelle McCluskey in The Listener!

Also nominated in this category were Erin Karpluk for Being Erica, Carmen Moore and Michelle Thrush for Blackstone, Krystin Pellerin for Republic of Doyle and Camille Sullivan for Shattered.

The 26th annual Gemini Award ceremony will take place in Toronto, with the Industry Awards on August 30-31st and the Red Carpet Gala award ceremony on Wednesday, September 7th at 8pm. The latter will be broadcast live on the CBC.

The last three episodes of The Listener's second season will begin August 17th. CTV recently ordered a third season from Shaftesbury.

Good luck Lauren! :)

Here is a video of Lauren Lee Smith's 10 questions with Judecast's Judith Klassen last month. Many thanks to i_heart_garbage for sharing this one!

Also on YouTube, see if you can spot Lauren's brief but memorable appearance in "the first made-for-internet major motion picture," Girl Walks into a Bar

Lauren Lee Smith and Craig Olejnik, her co-star on The Listener, will be attending the London's Comic Con MCM Expo at Excel, Royal Victoria Dock, May 27th-29th.

Sounds like fun!

Let’s Hear It For The Listener – Psychic Detectives Speak Out At London Comic Con. Listen up, sci-fi fans! CRAIG OLEJNIK and LAUREN LEE SMITH (THE L WORD, MUTANT X), the stars of supernatural crime show THE LISTENER, are coming to the MCM Expo London Comic Con to clue UK viewers into the hit Canadian series – hosting a panel, meeting fans and signing autographs.

CRAIG OLEJNIK stars as telepathic paramedic Toby Logan, who uses his amazing ability to hear the thoughts of others to save lives and fight crime. When Logan reveals his powers to police sergeant Michelle McCluskey (LAUREN LEE SMITH), she brings him on board her Integrated Investigative Bureau task force to help crack the toughest murder cases… but there’s a high price to pay for having such a gift.

You don’t have to be a mind reader to know that this MCM Expo panel will be a must-see. To catch OLEJNIK and SMITH in action before the show, check out the second season of THE LISTENER currently airing on Fox’s FX channel, home of top programmes such as TRUE BLOOD, DEXTER and FAMILY GUY.

For more on The Listener, please visit: www.fxuk.com/shows/the-listener

For London MCM Expo tickets please visit: www.mcmexpogroup.com/store

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Does anyone have or know of a place where I could watch The Survivor's Club? I never got a chance to see it when it aired in 2004 and I would really like to see it!

Thanks!

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To her L Word fans, we may have missed her last year, but Lauren Lee Smith is once again slated to attend the annual Starfury L Word Convention next weekend!

L8 will be held March 11-13th at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton, England. The other guests include Lauren Holloman (Tina), Erin Daniels (Dana), Janina Gavankar (Papi), Kate French (Niki Stevens), and Clementine Ford (Molly).

I can't make it this year (boo!) but congratulations to all who are planning to attend; have a wonderful time!

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I have some more goodies as well. Lauren has recently given two short interviews about her role in the second season of The Listener. Here they are, enjoy!

CTV 2/10/11

The Province 2/14/11

( Lauren on the making of The Listener )

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The made-for-TV movie Hindenburg premiered in Berlin on Tuesday night! Lauren Lee Smith strapped on her silver shoes to celebrate with her co-star Maximilian Simonischek. See more pictures on WireImage here. According to IMDB, the film will be released February 6th.

Click here for the Hindenberg trailer and here for a German interview with Lauren about the film.

In other news, be sure not to miss Lauren's first episode in CTV's second season of The Listener, which will air on January 28th. She will be playing Sergeant Michelle McCluskey, a character whose description somehow reminds me of her former role Riley Adams on CSI...

Sergeant Michelle McCluskey is the perfect candidate for the Integrated Investigative Bureau (IIB). Thorough and conscientious, she may only be in her early thirties, but she earned her promotion to sergeant through her hard work solving complicated cases. After graduating at the top of her class she was recruited into the IIB’s intelligence unit. Now working with Corporal Dev Clark, McCluskey’s suspicions about Toby lead to grudging skepticism about his telepathic abilities and eventual trust as she makes him a confidential informant. She might be able to read situations extremely well, but it never hurts to have an ally who can read minds.

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Remember Lauren Lee Smith's portrayal of the telempathic Emma DeLauro in Mutant X? Well, here's a bit of role reversal.

CTV.ca is reporting that Lauren will be joining the second season main cast of the hit drama The Listener, about telepathic paramedic Toby Logan. She won't have any psionic powers this time around, though. She'll be playing Sgt. Michelle McCluskey of the Integrated Investigations Bureau, an investigator who learns to overcome her initial skepticism of Toby Logan's abilities in order to consult with him on some of the IIB's most difficult cases.

Excerpt from CTV.ca:

Smith exclusively tells CTV.ca: “I’m pretty excited. I’m very excited to be back here in Toronto. I’m looking forward to what the new season will bring. It’s a great show. All the actors are fantastic. It’s great to be back in Canada, I have to say, I came from LA to Toronto, and now I’m back on home turf.”

13 new episodes are being shot for season two in and around Toronto until February of 2011.

Smith will play Sergeant Michelle McCluskey.

In Smith, “Listener” star Olejnik says “I think we have someone who’s extraordinary. She’s a star. She’s so open and clear and ready to rock and roll, and I think she’s great at what she does. It’s very awesome to have her, she’s very professional.”

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Where is Lauren Lee Smith tonight? She's attending this weekend's Toronto International Film Festival in order to support the world premiere of A Night for Dying Tigers! The film, which also stars Jennifer Beals, will be screened tonight, tomorrow night, and September 17th.

More pictures of Lauren at the TIFF Guess portrait photoshoot with some of her co-stars and director Terry Miles are here

View the Night for Dying Tigers trailer here.

And here's an excerpt from Lauren's interview with The National Post:

( I look for roles where I get to scream a lot )