Life and career

Bako was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Jewish parents. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor.

She trained with the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and acted with the Canadian National Shakespeare Company.

She has starred in Hollywood productions, numerous Canadian-made movies, and films made in Canada by American producers. Bako's first major break was in Martin Scorsese’s New York Stories. She co-starred with David Duchovny and Billy Wirth in Red Shoe Diaries; Benjamin Bratt and Michael Keaton in One Good Cop; and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days. Saint Monica was featured at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and Bako received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bako also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress in 1993. She starred in I Love a Man in Uniform, her first collaboration with Canadian producer Robert Lantos.

In addition to having the starring role, Bako makes her writing and executive producing debut in G-Spot. She currently maintains homes in New York and Los Angeles.

Bako worked with David Duchovny again in a 2007 episode of the Showtime series Californication (Episode 9, "Filthy Lucre," as a Porsche saleswoman).

She voiced Angela in Gargoyles and Monique Dupre in Godzilla: The Series.

Filmography

• One Good Cop (1991)
• Red Shoe Diaries (TV-1992)
• Fifteenth Phase of the Moon (TV-1992)
• I Love a Man in Uniform (1993)
• Dark Tide (1993)
• Replikator (1994)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Irving (1995)
• Double Take (1997)
• Dinner and Driving (1997)
• The Escape (1997)
• The Week That Girl Died (1998)
• Paranoia (1998)
• Primary Suspect (2000)
• Wrong Number (2001)
• Sweet Revenge (2001)
• Saint Monica (2002)
• Who's the Top? (2005)

TV series

• Gargoyles (voice, 1994)
• 3x3 Eyes (voice, 1995)
• Godzilla: The Series (voice, 1998)
• The Mind of the Married Man (2001)
• The Atwood Stories (2003, episode "Isis in Darkness")
• Law & Order (2004, episode "Darwinian")
• G-Spot (2005-2009)
• Californication (2007, episode "Filthy Lucre")

[ Source: Wikipedia ]