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Tatiana Maslany

Tatiana Gabriele Maslany (born September 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing multiple roles in the science fiction television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which aired on Space in Canada and BBC America in the US. For her performances in Orphan Black, Maslany won the Primetime Emmy Award (2016), the TCA Award (2013), two Critics' Choice Television Awards (2013 and 2014), and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–18), in addition to receiving a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Maslany became the first Canadian actor from a Canadian series to win an Emmy Award in a key dramatic category.

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I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

Family, Protecting, Think, Thinking, Ties, Together

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

Different, Dissolves, Firsts, Panic, Speak

It's wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it's rewarding.

Differently, Rewarding, Seen, Visibility, Wild

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

Dancing, Kids, Liked, Part, People

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

Character, Characters, Hour, Long, Play

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

Canada, Down, Grass, Ice, Men, Skating

Film has always been where my heart is.

Film, Heart, My Heart

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

Cartoon, Love, People, Way

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.

Being Yourself, Enjoy, Fun, Life, Positive, Stay Positive

There's something really unique about Orphan Black is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women’s stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

Black, Guy, Things, Unique, Womens

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

Back, Notes, Trying, Work, Writing

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

Artist, Artists, Push, Territory, Want

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

Amy, Come, Dream, Hero, Set

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

Character, Psychology, Walk, Walks, Way

All the foundation work you plant in the early seasons pay off in stronger storylines deep into our seasons. I think that only aids in performance.

Deep, Pay, Plant, Stronger, Think, Thinking

I'll never, never understand why people think it's their business to comment on other people's bodies. I go to a spa in LA sometimes, a Korean day spa, and all the women there are nude. And I've never felt so in love with the human form as when I'm walking around and seeing all those bodies, thinking, Oh my god, we're all just built so differently. And every single body is beautiful. I will never understand that shame, and the reinforcement of that shame. It's crazy.

Beautiful, Comment, Crazy, Korean, Love, Thinking

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

Comport, How You Feel, Look, Looks, Mirror, Mirrors

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Hard, Idle, Quite, Thinking

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

Always Trying, Giving, Listening, Produce

I think the sci-fi world allows for exploration of that that isn't on the nose and that isn't preachy, but it's kind of artful and explores it differently. I think there's more imagination in sci-fi. There's more chance to kind of explore perspective and not have it so grounded in this world that we live in, which is so stuck in a patriarchal kind of system.

Exploration, Imagination, Live, Perspective, Thinking

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