What’s the difference between a 13-year-old American tween and a fed-up 26-year-old soon-to-be divorcée? For the actress playing both roles, it’s just a week. Now, that’s versatility.
Toronto’s Rebecca Amare has a rare look and ability to get into the headspace of a teenager for her part in the dramatic feature film Diverted or an attitude-filled wife in an uncommunicative marriage for the short film Split.
Her talent caught the attention of casting agents for Degrassi: The Next Generation and Rebecca landed her breakout role as a sorority girl on the top-rated TV series.
“For me, it’s watching that person on the screen and experiencing that moment of relief, that moment when you say to yourself, ‘Wow, they really get me.’ So if I have the opportunity to do this thing that I love and I can give someone else that feeling, the happinesss that would bring me is indescribable.”
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.
“I really enjoyed it and my teacher encouraged me to try out for the school play,” Rebecca remembers. The play was called Street about homeless kids. 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. “It’s not only about people watching, but more about people understanding,” Rebecca explains. “For me, it’s more important to listen than speak and I always try and ask a lot of questions. This helps me gain perspective into the reality and truth behind a person’s actions and reactions at any given moment.”
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