# Liisa Repo-Martell

Liisa Repo-Martell is a Canadian actress and artist.
Repo-Martell's parents, Satu Repo and George Martell, were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as This Magazine.
Repo-Martell grew up in Toronto and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in the mid-1980s. She received a Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.
She portrayed Mrs. Genest, the estranged wife of Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), in the 2006 made-for-TV-movie Jesse Stone: Night Passage. In February 2012, the National Post called Repo-Martell, and her husband; actor and theatre-director Chris Abraham, a "Toronto theatre power couple". Repo-Mertell portrayed Sir Reginald Hargreeves' wife Abigail in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024).

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | Cocktail | Young girl in deli | |
| 1989 | American Boyfriends | Julie La Belle | |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Faith | |
| 1996 | Can I Get a Witness? | Sam | Short film |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Jan | |
| 2000 | Washed Up | Brains | |
| 2000 | Infidelity | Maid | Short film |
| 2000 | Hold-Up | Woman | Short film |
| 2003 | Bastards | Finnie | |
| 2004 | Touch of Pink | Delia | |
| 2007 | Diamonds in a Bucket | Vivian | Short film |
| 2007 | Lars and the Real Girl | Laurel | |
| 2015 | King Lear | Regan | |
| 2016 | Lavender | Jennifer | |
| 2020 | Flashback | Mrs. Fitzell | |
| 2020 | Happy Place | Nina | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1989 | Street Legal | Kate Quinlan | "Soul Custody" |
| 1992 | The Good Fight | Sandra | TV film |
| 1993 | E.N.G. | Terry | "The Big Sleepover" |
| 1993 | Class of '96 | Miranda | "The Adventures of Pat's Man and Robin" |
| 1993 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Patty | "The Lacquered Box" |
| 1994 | TekWar: TekLab | Galahad | TV film |
| 1994 | Lives of Girls and Women | Naomi | TV film |
| 1995 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Trish | "May I Walk with You" |
| 1996 | Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years | Billy Jean | "Partners" |
| 1996 | Hidden in America | Angela | TV film |
| 1996 | Critical Choices | Amy | TV film |
| 1997 | Once a Thief | Nikki | "Rave On" |
| 1998 | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Kristie Schuermann | TV film |
| 1998 | Nights Below Station Street | Adele Walsh | TV film |
| 1998–1999 | Emily of New Moon | Maida Flynn | "Falling Angels" & "The Return of Maida Flynn" |
| 1999 | Earth: Final Conflict | Amanda Hayes | "Volunteers" |
| 1999 | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Jenny Turner | "Body and Soul" |
| 2000 | Strong Medicine | Jessie | "Pilot" |
| 2002 | Scared Silent | Carole Bakelin | TV film |
| 2003 | Missing | Stacy Drake | "Thin Air" |
| 2005–2006 | This Is Wonderland | Sandy Fisher | Recurring role |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Carole Genest | TV film |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Carole Genest | TV film |
| 2006 | Puppets Who Kill | Lottie | "Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation" |
| 2007 | Trapped! | First Officer Maiju Saari | "Ocean Emergency" |
| 2008 | ReGenesis | Marie Gervais | "The Kiss" |
| 2009 | Diverted | Eileen Northbrook | TV film |
| 2009 | The Listener | Rebecca Cahill | "My Sister's Keeper" |
| 2010 | Republic of Doyle | Shannie Malone | "The Fall of the Republic" |
| 2010 | Flashpoint | Claire Williams | "Acceptable Risk" |
| 2011, 2020 | Murdoch Mysteries | Lydia Howland/Bridget Mulcahy | "Dead End Street"/"Rigid Silence" |
| 2011 | Committed | Donneymeade | TV film |
| 2012 | King | Dot Fuller | "Freddy Boise" |
| 2013 | Cracked | Angie Coturno | "Spirited Away" |
| 2014 | Remedy | Cynthia | "Homecoming" |
| 2016 | Saving Hope | Tracy | "Not Fade Away" |
| 2019, 2022–2024 | The Umbrella Academy | Abigail Hargreeves | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Anne with an E | Mrs. Rose | "The Summit of My Desires" and "Great and Sudden Change" |