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Emily’s List

he’s been in films and television since the late 1990s, but queer Canadian actress Emily Hampshire broke big in the United States a few years ago with her dual roles on two fascinating TV series. As Jennifer Goines on Syfy’s (now on Hulu), she reinvented the role Brad Pitt made famous in the film. Meanwhile, the CBC TV series (which airs on Pop TV and Netflix in the U.S.) became a slow-burn breakout hit, in no small part to Hampshire’s role as the acerbic, intelligent, hotel manager Stevie Budd. Playing

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