Balinder Johal

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| occupation = Actress

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Balinder Johal is an Indo-Canadian actress."Monster-in-law, India style; Vancouver's Balinder Johal finds a well of astonishing villainy as a controlling matriarch in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth". Vancouver Sun, 31 October 2008. She is best known for her roles in the films of Deepa Mehta, including Heaven on Earth, for which she was a Leo Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 2009,[https://www.straight.com/article-212904/stargate-stone-destiny-lead-bcs-leo-award-nominations "Stargate, Stone of Destiny lead B.C.'s Leo Award nominations"]. The Georgia Straight, 6 April 2009. and Beeba Boys, for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016."Performers proud of diversity in Canadian Screen Award noms". Telegraph-Journal, 21 January 2016.

Originally from Punjab, Johal was educated in India before moving to Canada to pursue a master's degree in education at the University of British Columbia.

As a stage actress, her most noted performances included Here and Now, a forum theatre play about urban gang violence in Vancouver,"Real-life local crisis transforms to genuinely gripping theatre". Vancouver Sun, 19 November 2005. and Anosh Irani's play My Granny the Goldfish."Gaggle of giggles keeps new comedy afloat". Vancouver Sun, 23 April 2010. She has also performed in guest appearances in the television series The Chris Isaak Show, Da Vinci's Inquest, 49th & Main, Aliens in America, Psych, Smallville and Sanctuary, and minor roles in the films Freddy Got Fingered, Josie and the Pussycats, No Men Beyond This Point and Donkeyhead.{{fact|date=December 2023}}