Brigitte Kingsley
- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Brigitte Kingsley is a Canadian actor, writer and producer. She was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her family moved to Whitby, Ontario when she was ten years old. At the age of fourteen, Brigitte Kingsley began her acting career in high school with television commercials such as Oxy, Foot Locker, McDonalds, Head & Shoulders and Radio Shack to name a few. She became the "hostess with the mostess" on the television series Game Nation for 4 seasons as host Suki Diefenbaker.
She studied theatre and psychology at York University. Shortly after graduating with Honours from York University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies, Brigitte Kingsley launched her production company Defiant Empire Corporation with business partner Andrew Cymek.
Brigitte Kingsley has now produced more than twenty feature films and MOWs and two television series to date. In 2006 she produced and starred in her first feature film Dark Rising (also starring WWE superstar Jay "Christian" Reso). The feature was released through Universal Vivendi and was nominated for 6 Canadian Comedy Awards in 2008 for Best Writing, Directing, Male Performance and Best Female Performance, which Brigitte earned for her role as the lead character "Summer Vale". It was later released in the US and internationally through EOne and subsequently expanded into a sequel Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and the television series The Savage Tales of Summer Vale both released in 2011 on Super Channel and acquired by Cinemavault for International sales and by MarVista for the US.
In 2008, Brigitte Kingsley became president of Black Walk, an established production company that has produced content in the industry for over 25 years. In 2010, she completed her third feature film Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, an action-thriller starring John Rhys Davies (Lord of the Rings), William B. Davies (X-Files), which was released through Anchor Bay Canada, US, UK and Australia. In 2011, she took on the responsibility of Decade Distribution in order to increase her knowledge in the sales and distribution side of film and also produced her first Telefilm supported feature film "Two Hands to Mouth" - an official selection of the Madrid International Film Festival. In 2012, she was nominated for another Canadian Comedy Award for her role as Summer Vale in Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and starred and co-executive produced the fourth Dark Rising project: Warrior of Worlds (also starring Colin Mochrie, Peter Outerbridge and Scott Thompson).
In September 2012, Brigitte left Black Walk to start her own production company Good Soldier Films with partner Andrew Cymek. Their first productions include Night Cries, which won best screenplay at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival (2015), The Man in the Shadows that played at Dances with Films and Cinefest (2015) and the country musical Country Crush starring Jana Kramer, Madeline Merlo and Sophie Tweed-Simmons acquired by SHOUT! Factory in the US, released as a Walmart Exclusive and was named best Narrative Feature, Best of Festival Film and Audience Choice at the Desert Rocks Film and Music Festival in Hesperia, California (2016). Most recently Brigitte has been producing romantic comedies and Christmas films for partners including Super Channel, Hallmark / Crown Media, UPTV, Lifetime, BYU and Great American Family (GAC). Her productions include From Friend to Fiancé which was the top summer movie on Hallmark in 2019, Autumn Stables, Home for Harvest, Mistletoe Magic, A Very Corgi Christmas, My Boss' Wedding to name a few. In 2020, she began to write and has produced four of her screenplays since - including Christmas by Chance (Lifetime), UnPerfect Christmas Wish (UPTV), Picture Perfect Romance (Super Channel) and The Art of Christmas (GAC) which will air this holiday season. Brigitte also just produced and starred in a sci-fi comedy supported by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC) called "Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy" released in Canada through Black Fawn Distribution and in the US through Nicely Entertainment.
Brigitte Kingsley is on the Board of directors for Canadore College's Television/Video Production and Digital Cinematography program and collaborates with the Canadian Armed Forces on several initiatives to increase moral among the deployed troops and vets during the holidays.
She studied theatre and psychology at York University. Shortly after graduating with Honours from York University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies, Brigitte Kingsley launched her production company Defiant Empire Corporation with business partner Andrew Cymek.
Brigitte Kingsley has now produced more than twenty feature films and MOWs and two television series to date. In 2006 she produced and starred in her first feature film Dark Rising (also starring WWE superstar Jay "Christian" Reso). The feature was released through Universal Vivendi and was nominated for 6 Canadian Comedy Awards in 2008 for Best Writing, Directing, Male Performance and Best Female Performance, which Brigitte earned for her role as the lead character "Summer Vale". It was later released in the US and internationally through EOne and subsequently expanded into a sequel Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and the television series The Savage Tales of Summer Vale both released in 2011 on Super Channel and acquired by Cinemavault for International sales and by MarVista for the US.
In 2008, Brigitte Kingsley became president of Black Walk, an established production company that has produced content in the industry for over 25 years. In 2010, she completed her third feature film Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, an action-thriller starring John Rhys Davies (Lord of the Rings), William B. Davies (X-Files), which was released through Anchor Bay Canada, US, UK and Australia. In 2011, she took on the responsibility of Decade Distribution in order to increase her knowledge in the sales and distribution side of film and also produced her first Telefilm supported feature film "Two Hands to Mouth" - an official selection of the Madrid International Film Festival. In 2012, she was nominated for another Canadian Comedy Award for her role as Summer Vale in Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and starred and co-executive produced the fourth Dark Rising project: Warrior of Worlds (also starring Colin Mochrie, Peter Outerbridge and Scott Thompson).
In September 2012, Brigitte left Black Walk to start her own production company Good Soldier Films with partner Andrew Cymek. Their first productions include Night Cries, which won best screenplay at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival (2015), The Man in the Shadows that played at Dances with Films and Cinefest (2015) and the country musical Country Crush starring Jana Kramer, Madeline Merlo and Sophie Tweed-Simmons acquired by SHOUT! Factory in the US, released as a Walmart Exclusive and was named best Narrative Feature, Best of Festival Film and Audience Choice at the Desert Rocks Film and Music Festival in Hesperia, California (2016). Most recently Brigitte has been producing romantic comedies and Christmas films for partners including Super Channel, Hallmark / Crown Media, UPTV, Lifetime, BYU and Great American Family (GAC). Her productions include From Friend to Fiancé which was the top summer movie on Hallmark in 2019, Autumn Stables, Home for Harvest, Mistletoe Magic, A Very Corgi Christmas, My Boss' Wedding to name a few. In 2020, she began to write and has produced four of her screenplays since - including Christmas by Chance (Lifetime), UnPerfect Christmas Wish (UPTV), Picture Perfect Romance (Super Channel) and The Art of Christmas (GAC) which will air this holiday season. Brigitte also just produced and starred in a sci-fi comedy supported by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC) called "Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy" released in Canada through Black Fawn Distribution and in the US through Nicely Entertainment.
Brigitte Kingsley is on the Board of directors for Canadore College's Television/Video Production and Digital Cinematography program and collaborates with the Canadian Armed Forces on several initiatives to increase moral among the deployed troops and vets during the holidays.
