Her full name is Emily Jean Perkins. The movie insomnia does credit Emily as Emily Jane Perkins - Emily herself has confirmed her middle name is Jean and it was a mistake on the credits.

She was born May 4th, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1977.

She is the middle child in a three child family. She has a sister who is a year younger than her.

Emily won the YTV award for her performance as Karen Downs in Small Sacrifices in 1990. She was age 13.

Emily trained with a number of resources including the Company of Rogues, The Vancouver Youth Theatre Company, the Carousel Theatre and the Amadeus Children's Choir. (info from tributes.ca)

She has a degree in Psychology and Women's Studies.

Is a foster mother to her two cousins, who are aged 10 and 13, whom she has been caring for for years. She is in process of adopting them. NB: one interview claims the children to be 12 and 9, another 15 and 12, another 13 and 10. The correct ages are 10 and 13 (at year 2004). She is raising these chidren, her two cousins, because their birth parents are unable to care for them. Emily has not spoken of the reasons for the adoption and likes people to accept that it is private and not for public knowledge.

She graduated with a fine arts certificate from Emily Carr Institute. She likes artwork, drawing, painting and making clay sculptures.
She also plays the piano a little.

Emily describes her acting career and on/off. She first became interested in acting at the age of 10.

On separating herself from her character Brigitte "Unfortunately, after seeing Ginger Snaps, 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."

Contrary to her character Brigitte, a dark troubled teen; Emily herself is very different. Interviewers have made the following comments about her;

Emily is "waaaay too beautiful to be the trouble teenager I saw on that big screen!" (Dominic F. Marceau)

"At first I didn't recognise her (the girl looks like a ray of sunshine), but I was totally enamored at just how sweet and charming the gal was." (arrow in the head interview).

"But what is most striking, perhaps, is that she smiles with her eyes and has a wildly genuine enthusiasm in her voice when she speaks about her work" (Michael J Lee)

She likes Fairuza Balk as an actress. She loves Woody Allen movies and documentaries.

She is friends with Laura Harris (the faculty). They went to school together in Vancouver and took drama classes together. Emily acted in a play that Laura directed in high school. They also acted together in one scene in Emilys movie IT.

During the filming of Stephen Kings IT she read up on the character in the book.
She also claims that Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green and the other guys (apart from little Eddie) used to tease her during the making of IT by calling her 'dyke' as a joke but they all got on really well together.
She once said Tim Curry would walk past the kids filming IT in clown costume and 'leer at them'
Confessed to having a crush on Jonathan Brandis during the making of IT

She likes old monster movies, like Godzilla Vs Mothra

She once said she 'loves the Harry Potter books'

Emily is good friends with Katie Isabelle, her co star in Ginger Snaps

Emily on Katie;
"We have the same agent, so we were put on tape together and then the tape was sent to Toronto. After that, both of us were flown to Toronto to audition, so we had to shoot again there. But we’d also actually known each other for years. We were born in the same hospital, we went to the same preschool, the same elementary school and the same private school after that, then we’re also with same agency, so... kinda like real sisters, but 5 years apart. I’m 5 years older than Katie."

And Katie on Emily;
"Emily's wicked. We're like sisters.We're in the same agency, we did the very first audition together, we went to the same private school, same elementary school, same preschool and we were born in the same hospital, but all at different times. It's really weird."

Emily is also a veteran stage actress.

Emily wore a wig in the first Ginger Snaps movie due to the fact that she shaved her head right before production. During Unleashed and Snaps back, it is her own hair.

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