Known for Acting
Heidi von Palleske was born on November 9, 1959 in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Dead Ringers (1988), The Boys Club (1996) and RED (2010).
Born
October 9, 1960 (age 65)
Birthplace
Toronto, Canada
Filmography
36 films, 11 shows


My Animal
2023 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.


Bordello
2023 · 1h 39m
country: Australia
It is 1889, New Mexico. The gold rush is over and most of the prospectors have moved on. In the middle of nowhere stands a crumbling Antebellum mansion - a bordello that has seen better days. Enoch, the inept pimp, owes a considerable amount of money to the town's psychopathic Sheriff. Money is tight: business is down and the five-woman in the house are tearing each other apart. The only thing they can agree on is their love for Angel, a seven-year-old child whose mother died in childbirth.


Ankle Biters
2021 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Four adorable little girls plot to brutally murder a hockey player after they mistake an act of lovemaking as an attack on their mom.


Rabid
2019 · 1h 47m
country: Canada
The quiet Rose works in women's fashion clothing, hoping to be a designer. A traffic accident damages her face. She gets experimental stem cell treatment, leaving her stronger and prettier than ever - but there's a side effect.


Viaticum
2019 · 28m
country: Canada
Liz Newey, a recovering alcoholic, is in the midst of her early morning recitation of the Twelve Steps, when she's interrupted by a phone call. Her father, Frank Newey, estranged for twenty-three years, is on his death bed in a Toronto hospital.


RED
2010 · 1h 51m
country: United States
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.


King of Sorrow
2007 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?


The Poet
2007 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.


The House Next Door
2006 · 1h 26m
country: Canada
Walker Kennedy and his wife Col are a happy, voluntarily childless suburban couple. Then the thing they fear the most happens: part of their green surrounding is turned into a building site, for what turns out to be the widely acclaimed first house built by attractive, brilliant, obsessively devoted architect Kim (30), who has a short affair with Col. Kim is even enchanted by his own house, just like everyone else. However each subsequent couple that moves into the house soon turns nasty, never staying for long, ending in tears and/or blood. When Kim finally buys it with his wife, Col who believes he somehow curses all his buildings insists it's time to deal with him, permanently.


Take the Lead
2006 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.


Land of the Dead
2005 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.


A Hole in One
2004 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.


Red Rover
2003 · 1h 43m
country: Canada
Two siblings, a brother and sister, travel to their family's old, ancestral estate upon the death of their father. They soon find out the hard way about their family's ancient secret of witchcraft and the occult.


Trudeau
2002 · 3h 27m
country: Canada
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.


The Highwayman
2000 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry store thief whose grip on reality is frighteningly precarious. With his accomplice Panda, the duo make off with a carload of cash, a result of a tip-off from beautiful cashier Ziggy. Her reward: to hitch a ride with the out-of-control duo so that she can meet her long-lost father Francis. But Breakfast is on a suicidal quest to even a score with his former boss and has the cops hot on his trail. Rage, murder and revenge are about to collide!


Cybermaster: Shepherd II
1999 · 1h 26m
country: Unknown
The continuing saga of Dakota, Lilith and gang center on the idea that the Earth surface may be habitable again. Miles, determind not to lose control of the underground cities decides to launch the last orbiting nuclear weapons to assure that Earth's surface remains unihabitable, forcing the populations to stay underground where he is the master of all things. All Dakota has to do is stop him.


The Shepherd
1998 · 1h 26m
country: Canada
In a futuristic wasteland, a mercenary saves a woman and her son from lethal cultists.


Labor of Love
1998 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.


Double Take
1998 · 1h 26m
country: Canada
A Writer identifies a murder, possibly mistakenly, in this tense plot twisting thriller.


When Husbands Cheat
1998 · 1h 27m
country: United States
After a woman helps prove her brother-in-law is cheating, she begins to work as a private investigator, but when she starts to suspect her husband is having an affair, she has to decide if she should follow her instincts or chalk it up to paranoia.


Falling Fire
1997 · 1h 36m
country: United States
In the not so distant future mankind has squandered their resources. A team of specialists is sent to the nearby asteroid field to retrieve an asteroid that will serve to replenish some of our natural resources. However, unbeknownst to the team, there is a killer on board determined to take control of the asteroid and destroy all mankind.


2103: The Deadly Wake
1997 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
Proxate Corporation recruits a boozy former ship captain and offers him a new identity: Sean Murdoch. His job: to take charge of large ship on one voyage. Once aboard, Murdoch realizes that the ship is a prison ship, and the cargo are criminally insane inmates. Murdoch's other problem: someone has planted bombs aboard the vessel. Murdoch's acrimonious relationship with the prison warden lends extra drama to the story.


Strip Search
1997 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Robby Durrell is the prince of the vice squad. A man who's seen it all and done a little of it too. But when the enchanting Sela hires him to help track down her stripper-stepdaughter, Robby learns there's more to Sela than meets the eye.


The Boys Club
1996 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
Three teenage boys in small-town Southern Ontario are thrilled when Luke Cooper, a mysterious American fugitive with a gunshot wound in his leg, decides to crash their secret hideout. Luke tells them that he's a cop on the run from corrupt colleagues, and swears them to silence. As he recuperates, he becomes their buddy and confidante. By the time the boys realize Luke is not who he pretends to be, they're in way over their heads


Radiant City
1996 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Driven to the brink by her overworked and insensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman seeks a meaning to life.


Sabotage
1996 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.


Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
1995 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.


Ramona!
1991
country: United States
Ramona travels the highways and backroads to Las Vegas and discovers that sometimes love is the greatest adventure of all.
Shadows of the Past
Shadows of the Past
1991 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
After a mysterious car accident, photo journalist Jackie Delaney wakes up in the hospital with amnesia. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident, she checks out of the hospital determined to unravel the mystery behind her recent past. Who was in the car with her, and who is following her now? After an attempt on her life, Jackie is assigned police protection and detective Sean MacFern enters her life. Together, they will solve a mystery that goes beyond a mere accident and that enters the shady world of internationals arm smuggling.


Deceived
1991 · 1h 44m
country: United States
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.


White Light
1991 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.


Renegades
1989 · 1h 45m
country: United States
While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casualties and the theft of an ancient Lakota tribal spear. After McHenry ends up severely wounded, he is taken in by Native American Hank Storm, who is out to recover the spear and avenge the death of a loved one in the heist.


Blind Fear
1989 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.


Dead Ringers
1988 · 1h 55m
country: Canada
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.


The Guaranteed Way to Pick Up Single Women
1987 · 1h 28m
country: Canada
Canadian comedy comes with instructions of how to pick up single women.


Terminal Choice
1985 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.