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 & Full Filmography21 Titles
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Deputy
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Janet
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Somnambula (voice)
Journey to the enchanted land of Equestria, where unicorn Twilight Sparkle and her pals have adventures and learn valuable lessons about friendship.
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Laughing Kid
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Queenie Dowson
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Shiloh
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Sipiwe Moyo
Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Janice Gibbs (as Murry Peters)
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Isabel Edu
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Tracy Salzman
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Tuck
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Kyla
After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Uniformed Cop #1
The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Jill
Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences.
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Maizie
The Copeland family battle for survival when civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes, a plague - and the rise of supernatural creatures.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Black Lesbian (uncredited)
The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. The period piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Karen
Allison McLean is a tough and experienced police detective, mother and wife in suburban Seattle. When she and her police partner must arrest her brother for aggravated assault, her world drastically changes as he's convicted and sent to prison, leaving his two teenagers teetering on the brink of foster care. Ultimately, she takes them into her home, ending up with four teenagers to raise.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Ebony King
Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Murry
When a young man returns to his hometown to assist with a friend's trial it soon becomes clear that he isn't the beacon of success that everyone thought he was.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Agent Thorn
A security breach reveals a greater threat than the secrets it exposed.