- Born
- Birth nameEmily Jean Perkins
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Emily Perkins was born on May 4, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Ginger Snaps (2000), It (1990) and Juno (2007). She is married to Ernest Mathijs.
- SpouseErnest Mathijs(? - present)
- Played nerdy characters
- Raising (and currently in the process of adopting) her two cousins, age 10 and 13, because their birth parents are unable to care for them.
- Her husband, Ernest Mathijs, is a film professor at the University of British Columbia. They met in 2005 at a film festival, where he was researching a book on cult films that included the "Ginger Snaps" trilogy, in which Emily starred.
- In addition to the Ginger Snaps movie series, Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle have played sisters in Another Cinderella Story (2008).
- Currently back in Vancouver raising her 8 month old child.
- Currently teaching Acting at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- "Unfortunately, after seeing Ginger Snaps (2000), people don't think of me that way, they just think of me as Brigitte. I'm not like her at all...it's just a character I played".
- I'm much happier than Brigitte. But I am pretty introverted, like Brigitte is. That part comes naturally to me.
- "I think I would most like to be Uma Thurman in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993). That character was just so cool".
- I was able to connect with Brigitte because when I was a teenager I saw the process of becoming a sexually mature adult as monstrous. I now understand that it is constructed as monstrous by society (e.g. all the products we have for controlling our natural bodies), and that is the "beast" that attacks every girl when she becomes sexualized by our culture. The hardest thing about playing Brigitte was trying to keep the smile out of my eyes. I was having so much fun!
- "I had a crush on Jonathan Brandis. I think it was partly a test tube thing, but I thought he was pretty cute. He became, like, a teen heart throb after that, I think".
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