Murry Peeters

Birthplace

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.