Rebecca Amare

Toronto's Rebecca Amare landed her breakout role as a sorority girl on the top-rated Degrassi: The Next Generation TV series.In just four short years since pursuing this career, Rebecca has also earned parts on movies of the week True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet and Unstable; feature film The Jazzman; and TV series Being Erica, Da Kink In My Hair, The Listener,The Border, Date My Playlist, Lost Girl,Breakout Kings and Dan For Mayor.Born in Toronto, Rebecca and her two sisters were always encouraged by their mother to dream big. Rebecca was drawn to the stage. She was a natural. In elementary school, she partook in everything from cabarets to speech arts competitions. When she got to high school at Jarvis Collegiate, she took her stage talent a step further, enrolling in drama classes.She went on to win a dramatic arts award that year. This accomplishment helped advance her dream of one day becoming an actress to the reality of pursuing a fulfilling career.In addition to training at the Pro Actors Lab, she had a knack for zeroing in on people's personalities and mannerisms. She is skilled at listening and watching people around her and filing it away for her grab-bag of characters. Show less «