Johanna Schneller
Fame Game columnist
Johanna Schneller is one of North America’s leading freelance journalists specializing in entertainment features. Read more...
Johanna Schneller
Fame Game columnist
Johanna Schneller is one of North America’s leading freelance journalists specializing in entertainment features. She has profiled the most prominent actors of our time – among them, Julia Roberts, Johnny Depp, Diane Keaton, Brad Pitt, Julianne Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges, Liam Neeson, Robert Downey, Jr. and Nicole Kidman. Her cover stories have appeared in a variety of major magazines, including In Style, Premiere, Vanity Fair, Ladies Home Journal and More. She was a senior writer in the Los Angeles bureau of GQ magazine from 1990 to 1994. Currently, she writes the weekly Fame Game column in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper; and for two seasons, she hosted TVO’s renowned film series, Saturday Night at the Movies. She lives in Toronto with her husband, the writer and broadcaster Ian Brown, and their two children.
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Tribeca: ‘This is a hinge time, isn’t this a hinge time?’
At Tribeca, a film festival – and a film industry – in search of itself
Friday, Apr 20, 2012
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Rossif Sutherland’s entry into the family business
Unlike his parents and siblings, this actor didn’t succumb to the allure of craft at first. He has since made up for lost time
Friday, Apr 13, 2012
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Mad about Mad Men’s Jessica Paré
The 29-year-old Montreal native talks about how she’s keeping Don in his place, the critics on their toes and her Cinderella moment in perspective
Friday, Apr 06, 2012
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Lily Collins: The fairy-tale princess reinvented
Lily Collins stars in one of two Snow White movies this year, but she’ll be duelling as well as wearing the sparkly dress. Fairy tales are big this year, and so is girl empowerment
Friday, Mar 30, 2012
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Paul Dano is an actual human being onscreen
Paul Dano, the talented young star of Being Flynn, has good taste in scripts and a penchant for unsettled characters
Friday, Mar 23, 2012
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Susan Sarandon: Still sexy at 65
Actress Susan Sarandon is like a vital, North American Helen Mirren, but she admits that, even for her, big, juicy roles are scarce
Friday, Mar 16, 2012
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Taylor Kitsch’s battle to be more than just another hunky superhero
Amped up by real-life killer workouts and hell-bent on vanquishing on-screen adversaries, Canada’s Taylor Kitsch faces an uphill battle against those who label him just another hunky superhero
Friday, Mar 09, 2012
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Emily Blunt's even nicer in person
Emily Blunt is the actress that everyone can’t help liking, no matter how enviable her perfect life is. So it has to be all hype, right?
Friday, Mar 02, 2012
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Oscar and the money: It’s girls on top
Studio heads, stop dissing so-called ‘women’s pictures.’ The movies for which actresses are nominated for Academy Awards are kicking the men’s pictures’ butts at the box office
Friday, Feb 17, 2012
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Bromance is blossoming into bronography
You may have thought bromances by the likes of Judd Apatow were pretty crude. Brace yourself for full-frontal genital humour
Friday, Feb 10, 2012
