Tamara Hope
Tamara Lindeman (born November 2, 1984), also known by the name Tamara Hope, is a Canadian actress and musician. Her starring roles include Guinevere Jones and The Nickel Children, as well as a recurring role on CTV's Whistler as Leah McLure. In her music career, in which she is credited as Tamara Lindeman, she has worked with the band Bruce Peninsula and has her own music project, The Weather Station.
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Tamara Hope

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- Birth Name
- Tamara Lindeman
- Born
- 2 November 1984
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Actress, musician
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- acting · music
- Languages
- English
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Tamara Lindeman (born November 2, 1984), also known by the name Tamara Hope, is a Canadian actress and musician. Her starring roles include Guinevere Jones and The Nickel Children, as well as a recurring role on CTV's Whistler as Leah McLure. In her music career, in which she is credited as Tamara Lindeman, she has worked with the band Bruce Peninsula and has her own music project, The Weather Station.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Birth Name — Tamara Lindeman • Born — 2 November 1984 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Occupation — Actress, musician • Years Active — 1999–present
Early life
Early life
Hope grew up in Ontario, Canada, in a family that has no other actors. Many of her relatives, including her father, are pilots. She lived in Dufferin County, and she sang in the Orangeville Choir from age 11. At age 12, she was part of the children's choir in the Donny Osmond–led production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Toronto's Elgin Theatre. She acted in the play Spring Planting at Theatre Orangeville at age 16. She enjoyed snowboarding, and as a teenager was a licensed snowboarding teacher. She moved to Toronto in 2002.
Acting career
Acting career
Her professional acting began in 1999 with a role in The Audrey Hepburn Story, a made-for-television movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt which was filmed in Montreal. For her work in The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000), she won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie (Drama) in the category Supporting Young Actress. She had a lead role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Stepsister from Planet Weird. She then played Tilda Swinton's character's daughter in the film The Deep End. She portrayed Elizabeth I in the HBO production The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I. In an episode of Twice in a Lifetime in 2000, she played the younger version of Cloris Leachman's character. She had the title role in the Canadian-Australian co-production of Guinevere Jones. In the 2003 TV movie The Piano Man's Daughter, she portrayed a younger version of Stockard Channing's character. For her work in The Nickel Children, a film about teenage prostitution, she was awarded the Breakout Performance Award at the 2005 Method Fest Independent Film Festival. She was a regular cast member of Whistler in 2007, playing snowboarding champion Leah McLure (although she was not permitted to do her own stunts). In 2009, Hope was featured in the Modernista! ad campaign promoting the Palm Pre phone.
Music career
Music career
In addition to her acting career, Lindeman is active in the Toronto music scene, performing in Bruce Peninsula and leading her own band, The Weather Station. She was a nominee for the 2013 SOCAN Songwriting Prize for "Mule in the Flowers", a song she cowrote with Steve Lambke. She recorded Loyalty, her third full-length album as The Weather Station, at La Frette studios in Paris, France with Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas and Robbie Lackritz, who has worked on albums with Bahamas, Feist, Zeus and Jason Collett. Loyalty was released on May 5, 2015, on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide) and Outside Music (Canada). The Weather Station album Ignorance was released on February 5, 2021. It was described as "a beguiling jazz-folk opus with indie-rock inclinations" The Weather Station album Ignorance was #7 in the Pitchfork's listing of the best albums of 2021.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1999 — Winslow Homer: An American Original — Fee — TV film • 2000 — The — Clara — TV film • 2000 — Stepsister from Planet Weird — Ariel Cola — TV film • 2000 — The — Carol Wyman — TV film • 2000 — The — Princess Elizabeth Tudor — TV film • 2000 — Twice in a Lifetime — Young Ruth Harper — "Grandma's Shoes" • 2000-2002 — Soul Food — Callie — Recurring role • 2001 — What Girls Learn — Elizabeth — TV film • 2002 — Guinevere Jones — Gwen Jones/Queen Guinevere — Lead role • 2002 — Tracker — Tina — "Children of the Night" • 2003 — The — Lilly Kilworth (12–14 years) — TV film • 2003 — Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion — Beatrix Collins — TV film • 2004 — Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story — Carly — TV film • 2004 — Kevin Hill — Laura Walker — "Homework" • 2005 — Selling Innocence — Chelsea Burns — TV film • 2005 — Mayday — Linda Farley — TV film • 2006 — Augusta, Gone — Rain — TV film • 2006 — 10.5: Apocalypse — Amy Hollister — TV miniseries • 2007 — Lies and Crimes — Kirsten — TV film • 2007 — ReGenesis — Julie Henshaw — "A Spontaneous Moment", "Dust in the Wind" • 2007 — Whistler — Leah Hutton — Recurring role • 2008 — Murdoch Mysteries — Edna Garrison — "Power" • 2009 — Sand Serpents — Jan Henle — TV film • 2009 — Manson — Linda Kasabian — TV film • 2011 — Covert Affairs — Emerson — "Bang and Blame" • 2011 — Three Inches — Cate — TV film • 2012 — Good God — Becky — Recurring role • 2012 — Beauty and the Beast — Emily — "Pilot" • 2014 — Transporter: The Series — Alice — "Sixteen Hands" • 2014-2015 — Murdoch Mysteries — Edna Brooks — Recurring role
Albums with Bruce Peninsula
Albums with Bruce Peninsula
• Debut 7" EP (2008) • A Mountain Is a Mouth (2009) • Open Flames (2011)
Albums with The Weather Station
Albums with The Weather Station
• East EP (2008) • The Line (2009) • All of It Was Mine (2011) • Duets #1-3 (2013) • What Am I Going to Do with Everything I Know EP (2014) • Loyalty (2015) • The Weather Station (2017) • Ignorance (2021) • How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars (2022) • Humanhood (2025)
Accolades
Accolades
• Year — Association — Category — Work — Result • 2001 — Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a TV movie (Drama) - Supporting Young Actress — The Sandy Bottom Orchestra • 2002 — Young Artist Award — Best Performance in a TV movie or Special - Supporting Young Actress — What Girls Learn • 2005 — Method Fest — Breakout Acting Award — The Nickel Children • 2007 — Prism Awards — Performance in a TV movie — Augusta, Gone
Identity
Identity
Tamara Hope is recorded with the occupation songwriter. Recorded as actress, singer, musician and songwriter.

Tamara Hope (Lindeman) and Ian Kehoe of the folk music group The Weather Station at Grooves Record Store / London, ON / March 23, 2013
CRUSTINA! from Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Weather Station/Marine Dreams

The Weather Station is a Canadian folk music band fronted by Tamara Lindeman - here in 2022 in the UK at Rough Trade
Paul Hudson from United Kingdom · The Weather Station at Rough Trade
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Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2001 — The — Paige Hall • 2003 — The — Sophie • 2004 — A — Lucy Cauffield • 2004 — Saint Ralph — Claire Collins • 2004 — Shall We Dance — Jenna Clark • 2005 — data-sort-value="Nickel Children, The" | The Nickel Children — Cat • 2007 — September Dawn — Emily Hudson • 2008 — Shoot First and Pray You Live — Irene Melody • 2009 — Manson — Linda Kasabian • 2012 — Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang — Marianne Kellogg • 2015 — Crimson Peak — Society Girl #2
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