GLENDA BRAGANZA

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Glenda is a second generation Canadian of Goan decent. Glenda grew up performing in ballet and music recitals and at an early age she showed a flair for the dramatic and wanted to be a comedian. After focusing on theatre in high school, Glenda moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University where she completed a BFA with a Specialization in Theatre Performance with additional studies in psychology, sociology, human relations and education. Upon graduation, she was cast by a long-standing Montreal theatre company, Geordie Productions and performed in their 2-play tour, traveling throughout Quebec, parts of the Maritimes and Ontario. Since then Glenda has performed on stages across Canada, including various theatres in Montreal; The Citadel Theatre of Edmonton; MTYP in Winnipeg and a production of Don Quixote, a co-production between Montreal's Centaur Theatre and Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre on Granville Island. Her ability to play varying styles of theatre and a broad scope of roles earned her several accolades. In 2004 and 2010 Glenda was awarded the M.E.C.C.A. (Montreal English Critics’ Circle Award) for Best Actress and was included in The Montreal Mirror’s “Noisemakers 2005” list. Glenda is a founding member of Metachroma Theatre, a new company dedicated to the normalization of actors of colour and culture on stage.

Glenda's film and television career began when she appeared as detective Angie Baron in the Gemini-nominated CTV movie Tripping Wire starring Clark Johnson. Since then, she has worked steadily in film and television. Some credits include NBC’s sweeps television special 10.5 Apocalypse with Kim Delaney and David Cubitt; and the recurring character, Nancy Drake in the IFC series The Business, starring Kathleen Robertson. In 2010, as part an ensemble comedy cast, Glenda played Rani, the control-freak doughnut shop owner in the CBC sit-com Men With Brooms. From 2012 to 2014, Glenda played ICU doctor Melanda Tolliver, a series regular in the CTV/NBC hit drama Saving Hope starring Erica Durance, Michael Shanks and Daniel Gillies. In October 2015 the medical procedural drama was also aired in the US on ION television network. The show is distributed by eOne Entertainment and is now in broadcast across parts of Europe, South America and Australia. 

More recently, Glenda has appeared on various network tv shows, including: Designated Survivor (ABC), Taken (CBS), American Gothic (CBS), Orphan Black (BBC America), Incorporated (SYFY) and Murdoch Mysteries (CBC).

Glenda has also appeared in MOWs, web series and independent film and pilot projects. 

Not only a face to be recognized, Glenda is also a voice to be reckoned with. She has recorded several radio spots and her voice can be heard on XBOX’s around the world as the inspiring fitness coach who gets you motivated and toned with the Kinect game “Your Shape”- one of the first-ever interactive AI video games from XBOX.

Having relocated from Montreal, Glenda now splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles where she lives with her husband Mike, with whom she enjoys an active lifestyle of yoga, fitness training and running, as well as a hankering for travel and the culinary arts. 

As with her theatre training and experience, Glenda is passionate about learning and evolving though film collaboration with artists from varying regions, backgrounds, disciplines and cultures.