Tatiana Maslany - Sarah Manning, Orphan Black
Orphan Black is a Canadian series, combining thriller and science fiction, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett. It tells the story of Sarah Manning, a British con artist who witnesses the suicide of a woman who appears to be her double. She assumes the woman's identity and profession as a police inspector, and discovers that other look-alikes exist. They are genetically identical human clones, part of an illegal human cloning experiment, and are being targeted for assassination. The series raises questions about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and its effects on identity.
Sarah Manning, rebellious punk on the run and British con artist, is a natural chameleon. She's a badass, a born outsider who lives on the bangs of society thanks to her intelligence. Despite her moral ambiguity, Sarah does her best to set things right so she can turn the page on her past, make enough money, and leave town with her foster brother, Felix, to be reunited with her estranged daughter, Kira. During her time with the clones, Sarah had to make some of the hardest choices of her life. While she initially wanted no part of the conspiracy problem the clones faced, concerned only with raising enough money to start afresh, she has since discovered that she cares for others more than she realized.
She and Kira are considered important and actively sought after by the Dyad Institute, due in part to the fact that she and her twin sister, Helena, are the only clones capable of reproducing, and Kira is the first descendant of one of the clones.
Tatiana Maslany is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing multiple characters, clones, in the series "Orphan Black" (2013-2017), a performance that earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2016, two Critics' Choice Awards in 2013 and 2014, and five Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 and 2018. She is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major drama category for acting in a Canadian series.
She made her screen debut in 1997, playing a variety of small roles in two episodes of the series "Incredible Story Studios". She landed her first leading role in 2002, in the series "2030 CE". Her film and television credits also include the films "Diary of the Dead" and "Eastern Promises" (2007), the series "Heartland" (2008-2010), "Being Erica" (2009-2011) and "The Nativity" (2010), the films "The Vow" and "Picture Day" (2012), "Cas and Dylan" (2013), "Woman in Gold" (2015), "The Other Half" (2016), for which she won the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Actress, "Stronger" (2017), "Destroyer" (2018), and the series "Perry Mason" (2020).
She also appeared on stage, for the first time in 1995, in the play "Oliver!". From 2003 to 2019, she took part in 7 plays, and returned to the stage in 2023 with "Grey House", on Broadway.
Since 2022, she has played the main role of Jennifer Walters, the female version of the Hulk, in the series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law", alongside Mark Ruffalo.
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