A young Bragg Creek actress recently took home a top prize at a national competition in Toronto.
Nine-year-old Maddie Dixon-Poirier competed in the 2015 Talent INC Canada National Conference, taking home a gold medal for acting and best overall child actor.
The national conference has 250 participants who have the opportunity to ‘perform full length programs in front of industry professionals’ and also have the opportunity to meet with them following the event.
“It was a great experience. Winning the actual overall put a cherry on top of a perfect weekend,” said Dixon-Poirier.
Not only did she take home some prizes, but Dixon-Poirier also said she learned a lot from the workshops she participated in at the conference.
“We weren’t sure what to expect, but we were really pleasantly surprised by what a wonderfully warm community it is with so many talented people from all across the country. They were all so supportive of each other. It was a really positive experience,” said Barbara Dixon, Dixon-Poirier’s mother.
Dixon said Dixon-Poirier began acting about a year ago and since then she has appeared in films, a TV movie and has done some background work in the award-winning television series Fargo.
Now that she has returned to Bragg Creek, Dixon-Poirier said she would continue to go to auditions as they come up and that she already has a couple of things that she has been cast for that are starting to shoot soon, including an independent film and a television pilot.
“Why I decided to be an actor is I really like the performing arts and I wanted to add one more performing arts to my list, so I tried acting and I fell in love with the art. Sometimes it feels like you’re being placed into someone else’s body. You get a whole bunch of lines that are definitely not you, but you’re still you,” said Dixon-Poirier.
Dixon-Poirier said she plans on continuing with acting and plans on pursuing it as a career when she is finished with school. Her goal for now is to ‘get a main part in a movie or T.V. show’ and try to get as many things on her resume as he can.
