Cynthia Ashperger

Known for Acting

5/4/1963(Age 62)

Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]

Biography

Cynthia Ashperger is a Croatian-Canadian stage, film and television actress, writer, director and producer. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Studies in Drama and has taught Acting at Ryerson Theatre School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Known For (17 credits)

5.5

Movie

Violation

2020

A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.

4.6

Movie

The Waiting Room

2015

Jasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.

7.8

Orphan Black

2013

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

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Accidental Co-Traveller

2004

The story of a girl who works in a foundry and leaves the job due to difficult working conditions and decides to go away from home. On this quest for happiness she meets a rich football manager whom she robs, as well as number of other people who all mostly have sexual or other intentions about her.

9.0

This Is Wonderland

2004

Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.

6.8

The Guardian

2001

Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings. Reluctantly, he's now The Guardian - a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances.

2.7

Movie

Hidden Agenda

1999

A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.

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Christmas in Vienna

1997

A young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend gets killed.

Movie

Croatian Cathedrals

1991

In this comedy, Janko a thief and Vanja an author meet when Janko robs the house in which Vanja is writing his essay on cathedrals. In the ensuing brawl Janko steals the manuscript. A retrieval chase follows.

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In the Midst of My Days

1988

A famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via intercessory from Mother of God.

7.0

Journey to Vucjak

1986

With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.

6.3

Movie

Promised Land

1986

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.