Actress, singer, songwriter, musician,
voice-over artist, recording artist, playwright and painter from
Vancouver, Canada.

ACTRA/UBCP
CAEA
Sarah Davis
Premiere Talent Management

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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Throughout her career Marlee has received many awards and nominations.

WINNER

PERFORMING ARTS FANS DISTINGUISHED ARTIST 2024

The FANS Distinguished Artist Award is intended to publicly recognize and honour North and West Vancouver artists who have created a substantial, nationally recognized body of work in performing, visual, literary or media arts.

NOMINATIONS

OUTmusic AWARDS 2014

As the dance/pop duo, Sugarbeach, Marlee and wife, Nathalie were nominated for an OUtmusic Award in 2009 in New York City and 4 more nominations for their original songs in 2014 in Las Vegas.

NOMINATION

LEO AWARDS 2024

Marlee was nominated for BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE in a Dramatic Series for her work in "Creepshow-The Hat."

WINNER

WEST COAST SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL & CANADIAN SONG FESTIVAL

In 1984, Marlee entered her recording of "God Bless The Woman" written by her brother & sister, Judy Ginn Walchuk & Jim Walchuk. The song won in the West Coast Songwriters Festival and went on to win the Canadian Song Festival as well. It was a national hit on Canadian country radio.

WINNER

TALENT ON TAPE - Best Vocalist 1999

Her recording of "Family Bible" written by her brother and sister, Judy Ginn Walchuk & Jim Walchuk from her solo album, "One More Chance" won her BEST VOCALIST in the North American, Talent on Tape contest.

WINNER

PRIDE IN THE ARTS 2008-2014

Throughout their 7 years, writing and performing as Sugarbeach , Marlee & Nathalie (Tully)were the winners of 3 Pride In the Arts Awards in the U.S. including Favorite Group of the Year and had all of their singles hit #1 on the OUTVOICE charts in the U.S.A. They also won song of the year for 2010 for "Living Out Proud" and 2011 for "Come On Out."

WINNER

GLBT HALL OF FAME- Voted on by the fans and the Stonewall Society members 2014

Marlee Walchuk and Tully (Nathalie) Callender were inducted into the GLBT Hall of Fame in the U.S. in January, 2014 for their creation and management of RightOutTV and the impact and resource that website have been to the GLBT arts community and community at large.

NOMINATIONS

BC COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

With her National Country hit song, "God Bless The Woman," Marlee was nominated for 5 BCCMA music awards and performed at the award's ceremony.

WINNER

VANCOUVER'S BEST SOLO ROCK ACT 1986

Marlee's first award was from a city-wide competition of Vancouver's Solo Rock Acts with local judges, including Red Robinson and Ellie O'Day. She played to packed houses, mixing comedy with original songs and covers.

About

Marlee was classically trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles.

After years of singing on commercials, TV guest appearances, theatre musicals, live bands, a national hit song, touring, and 3 original CDs, she returned to her first love, acting. She had always shied away from film and TV because she didn't fit into "the norm" only to discover that this is exactly why she would be cast.

She can be seen acting opposite Jessica Biel in Limetown and Kim Fields in You Light Up My Christmas. She plays Mum in The D Cut on Crave TV, another mom of Jessie Tyler Ferguson in Ivy and Bean on Netflix and Making Spirits Bright from Hallmark.

You can also catch her in The Bad Seed Returns on Lifetime, Upload on Prime and recurring as Judge Edith Mendelsohn in So Help Me Todd with Marcia Gay Harden. She's a series regular on "The Chicken Sisters" on Hallmark+ and is guest-starring on When Calls the Heart, Animal Control, The Irrational, Sight Unseen and in the feature film, The Wedding Banquet with Bowen Yang.