Biography
Toronto native Inga Cadranel was raised in a show business family. Her parents, Maja Ardal and Jeff Braunstein, are stage actors, directors and writers; her brother Paul Braunstein is an actor. In fact, Cadranel was directed by her mother in her first key stage performance as “Kayla” in the Young People’s Theatre production of The Cabbagetown Caped Crusaders.
The busy actress most recently appeared in Peter Wellington’s cable feature Matters of Life and Dating; and in the feature Killshot, a dramatic thriller starring Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke. She performs a series regular role in the new dramatic series M.V.P.. Her leading role in the series Rent A Goalie (in which she stars alongside her husband, actor Gabriel Hogan) recently garnered her a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Actress.
Cadranel’s work also includes a series lead role on the comedy series Jeff Ltd., a series regular role for three seasons on the multi award-winning drama series The Eleventh Hour, and a series regular role on Showtime’s Leap Years. Her episodic credits also include Kojak, Shaftesbury’s ReGenesis, Street Time, Earth: Final Conflict, Drop The Beat, Relic Hunter, The City, and Ken Finkleman’s Foreign Objects.
Also for television, she appeared in the movie The Big Heist, directed by Robert Markowitz and starring Donald Sutherland and John Heard; the cable feature Sex & Mrs. X, with Linda Hamilton and Jacqueline Bisset; and the short drama, Dear America, directed by William Fruet.
Cadranel also appeared in The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John, a three-hour epic which premiered at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival; and in Helen Lee’s romantic comedy, The Art of Woo, which premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
Although Cadranel has spent time in Los Angeles, and a year in Vancouver, B.C. where she studied at the acclaimed Studio 58 Theatre School, she continues to make Toronto her home.