
Yoshie Bancroft
Acting
Biography
YOSHIE BANCROFT is an award winning actor and theatre creator based in Vancouver, Canada. Currently: Forgiveness & Anne of Green Gables at the Stratford Festival. Select Film/TV: Superman & Lois, Emily Owens M.D. (CW); Bones of Crows (CBC); Alaska, A Million Little Things (ABC); Color My World, Christmas Under the Stars (Hallmark). Recent theatre: MIZUSHŌBAI (Tableau D'Hôte Theatre, Montreal), God Said This (Pacific Theatre), Forgiveness (Arts Club & Theatre Calgary), Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Globe Theatre), The Orchard (Arts Club), Griffin & Sabine (Belfry); JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited/Soulpepper); Home Is A Beautiful Word (Belfry/Persephone); SHIT (Firehall), Lizzie in Pride & Prejudice (Chemainus Theatre Festival). Bancroft is an Artistic Producer & Collaborator for Universal Limited Theatre and co-creator of JAPANESE PROBLEM (Universal Limited), a site-responsive play shedding light on the Japanese Canadian Incarceration during WWII. Universal Limited is an award winning theatre company that creates and produces original work, prioritizing collaboration, rigorous research, and the use of their platform to share hidden histories and stories that would otherwise be missed, while reflecting and representing the diversity of communities in our world through art.
Known For

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Supernatural

After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
The Flash

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever: dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.
Superman & Lois

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
Bates Motel

A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly.
A Million Little Things

Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Debris

A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
Ice

The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.
Almost Human

At long last, Emily Owens feels like she is an actual grown-up. She's graduated from medical school and is now a first-year intern at Denver Memorial Hospital. So why does everyone keep warning her that the hospital is just like high school?
Emily Owens, M.D.

Buddy Dobbs, a slacker on the run from a loan shark, steals a man's identity and ends up posing as a small town's new gay pastor.
Impastor

Cree Matriarch Aline Spears survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. The story unfolds over one hundred years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Bones of Crows

A young broadcast journalism student is trying to win the approval of her influential mentor who pushes her to reconsider the meaning of truth if it means success.
Cold Copy

When Aida Teagarden's real estate client is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter Aurora sets out with her fiancé Nick and the Real Murders Club to solve the murder.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con

When Nick is fired from his high-powered investment firm at Christmastime, he takes a job at a Christmas tree lot. There, he meets Julie, an astronomy teacher who’s always looked to the stars for hope. As the Christmas spirit washes over him—and he begins falling for Julie—the once self-centered Nick discovers the joy of helping others.
Christmas Under the Stars

Alex McPherson returns to the small town in Pennsylvania where she spent her summers as a girl to record the next episode of her true crime podcast, about the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years prior. However, after teaming up with the local newspaper editor, who reluctantly agrees to help her retrace the girl’s last steps, Alex not only uncovers the shocking truth behind the girl’s disappearance, but also a decades-old murder and its cover-up.
Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered

Angela the angel takes on the role of a temporary school counselor. Working alongside junior high school principal Bruce Banks, she intervenes in the life of a troubled student Cody Grier who is struggling with the tragic loss of his mother.
Highway to Heaven

A murder leads a newly pregnant mom-to-be to discover her IVF procedure may not have come from her husband, and someone will stop at nothing to keep her from discovering who the real father is.
The Baby My Husband Lied About

Emma's daughter Kendall becomes engaged, but Emma is concerned as Kendall and her fiancé have Down Syndrome and Emma worries she's not ready to take this step.