Brigitte Bako

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Brigitte Bako (born May 15, 1967)^[1] is a Canadian actress known for her role on Red Shoe Diaries. She also wrote, produced and starred in the adult comedy G-Spot.

Life and career[]

Bako was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Jewish parents. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor.^[1]

She trained with the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and acted with the .

She has starred in Hollywood productions, numerous Canadian-made movies, and films made in Canada by American producers. Bako's first major break was in Martin Scorsese's New York Stories. She co-starred with David Duchovny and Billy Wirth in Red Shoe Diaries; Benjamin Bratt and Michael Keaton in One Good Cop; and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days. Saint Monica was featured at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and Bako received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bako also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress in 1993. She starred in I Love a Man in Uniform, her first collaboration with Canadian producer Robert Lantos.

In addition to having the starring role, Bako makes her writing and executive producing debut in G-Spot.

Bako worked with David Duchovny again in a 2007 episode of the Showtime series Californication (Episode 9, "Filthy Lucre," as a Porsche saleswoman).

She voiced Angela in Gargoyles and Monique Dupre in Godzilla: The Series.

Filmography[]

• One Good Cop (1991)
• Red Shoe Diaries (TV-1992)
• Fifteenth Phase of the Moon (TV-1992)
• I Love a Man in Uniform (1993)
• Dark Tide (1994)
• Replikator (1994)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Irving (1995)
• Double Take (1997)
• Dinner and Driving (1997)
• The Escape (1997)
• The Week That Girl Died (1998)
• Paranoia (1998)
• Primary Suspect (2000)
• Wrong Number (2001)
• Sweet Revenge (2001)
• Saint Monica (2002)
• Who's the Top? (2005)

TV series[]

• Gargoyles ("Angela" [voice] 1995 - 1997)
• 3x3 Eyes (voice, 1995)
• Godzilla: The Series (voice, 1998)
• Secret Agent Man ("Mirage"; 2000, episode "Fail-Safe")
• The Mind of the Married Man (2001)
• The Atwood Stories (2003, episode "Isis in Darkness")
• Law & Order (2004, episode "Darwinian")
• G-Spot (2005–2009)
• Californication (2007, episode "Filthy Lucre")

References[]

External links[]

• Brigitte Bako at IMDb
• Moca, Diane Joy (19 May 1992). "Brigitte Bako 'Very Stressed' Filming 'Red Shoe Diaries'". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2018 – via Chicago Tribune.