Murry Peeters
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.
Acting
TV
Lucifer
as Janet
2016
TV
The 100
as Laughing Kid
2014
TV
Supernatural
as Deputy
2005
TV
See
as Shiloh
2019
TV
Designated Survivor
as Sipiwe Moyo
2016
TV
Maid
as Kyla
2021
TV
Wayward Pines
as Tracy Salzman
2015
TV
The Killing
as Janice Gibbs (as Murry Peters)
2011
TV
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
as Somnambula (voice)
2010
TV
Almost Human
as Uniformed Cop #1
2013
TV
Killjoys
as Tuck
2015
TV
Murdoch Mysteries
as Queenie Dowson
2008
TV
Taken
as Isabel Edu
2017
TV
Transplant
2020
TV
Aftermath
as Maizie
2016
TV
When We Rise
as Black Lesbian (uncredited)
2017
TV
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
as Jill
2014
Movie
The Grim Sleeper
as Ebony King
2014
TV
Ties That Bind
as Karen
2015
Movie
Prodigals
as Murry
2018
Movie
Infiltrator
as Agent Thorn
2019
King of the Casino: The Monte Carlo Story
as Modern