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Chandra West Profile |
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Birth Date: December 31, 1970
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Birth Place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Birth Name: Chandra West
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Biography |
Chandra West is a Canadian actress.
She is one of few Canadian actresses to make the successful
transition from television to film.
West's big break came in 1991 when she played a small part
in the television series True Confections, a 1950s
conservative drama about a woman with an ahead-of-her-time
awareness. It was not until two years later that West
followed her screen debut with a smaller role in the
more-recognised series The Secret of Lake Success.
West appeared in three consecutive films; the first as the
female-lead in Puppet Master 4 (1993), then a smaller role
as Miss Germany in the action-flick No Contest (1994) also
starring Robert Davi and Roddy Piper, and in the same year,
reprising her role as Susie in Puppet Master 5: The Final
Chapter (1994) (though many consider this addition to be the
weakest of all the Puppet Master series of films). The
closing months of 1994 and most of 1995 saw West return to
television with appearances in Madonna: Innocence Lost
(1994), Catwalk (1994), Falling For You (1995) and the role
of Muriel Hemingway in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow
Story (1995).
A whole host of other parts kept her busy throughout the
late 1990s - including the role of Veronica Reynolds in both
Universal Soldier sequels, Universal Soldier 2: Brothers in
Arms (1998) and Universal Soldier 3: Unfinished Business
(1998). Her major film breakthrough came when she starred as
Val Kilmer's on-screen wife in the 2002 D.J. Caruso crime
thriller, The Salton Sea. Following the moderate success of
The Salton Sea, Chandra was exposed to a wider market. This
role helped her grasp the role of Robin in The First $20
Million Is Always the Hardest, which was panned critically
and deemed a major disappointment despite an all-star cast,
including Steve Buscemi, Rosario Dawson, Adam Garcia - as
well a script penned by Jon Favreau.
The flop had little effect on Chandra's rise however, as she
was soon learning the lines for her next role as Laura
Chandler in the Emmy-nominated mini-series Mister Sterling
(2003). Two years later, she was cast as the wife of Michael
Keaton in the 2005 horror flick White Noise. She also played
novice agent Holly Gribbs in the pilot of CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation in 2000. Chandra's most recent performances
were in the unheralded film Canes (The Covenant), a B-movie
which also starred Edward Furlong and Michael Madsen, and as
Tina Blake in new HBO series John From Cincinnati. |
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Other
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Went to high school at Oakville Trafalgar High School, in
Oakville Ontario from 1984-1989. |
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