Chapelle Jaffe

{{short description|Canadian actress}}

Chapelle Jaffe is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for the television film One Night Stand,Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}. and receiving a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for The Amateur."Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 1982.

Jaffe also was in the cast of the original production of One Night Stand at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.{{cite news |last1=Hicks |first1=Wessely |title=Who Needs Al Pacino? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29452218/the_gazette/ |accessdate=13 March 2019 |work=The Gazette |date=20 August 1977 |location=Canada, Montreal |page=56|via = Newspapers.com}}

In 1977, Jaffe's acting in Red Emma brought her a nomination for an ACTRA Award for the best acting performance in TV.{{cite news |title=The ACTRA Awards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29453388/edmonton_journal/ |accessdate=13 March 2019 |work=Edmonton Journal |date=7 April 1977 |location=Canada, Edmonton, Alberta |page=108|via = Newspapers.com}}

She was the editor of the first edition of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Who's Who in Canadian Film and Television directory."'Editor by day, killer by night'". The Globe and Mail, January 28, 1986.

Jaffe also worked in the administrative dimension of entertainment, including being executive director of Vancouver's New Play Festival{{cite news |last1=Birnie |first1=Peter |title=Aaron Buskowsky leads off the 28th Vancouver New Play Festival with a fiddle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29453853/the_vancouver_sun/ |accessdate=13 March 2019 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=2 May 2002 |location=Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver |page=31|via = Newspapers.com}} and Playwrights Theatre Centre.{{cite news |title=Forums This Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29454057/the_vancouver_sun/ |accessdate=13 March 2019 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=30 December 1999 |location=Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver |page=52|via = Newspapers.com}}