Name and occupation: Molly Parker, actress. Age: 27. Provenance: Vancouver, British Columbia. Now establishing herself as the indie queen of the Great White North in: Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland; Waking the Dead, with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly (playing a Chicago socialite): and Sunshine, starring Ralph Fiennes (playing a pre-World War II Jcwish-Hungarian woman). You’ve taken on some pretty heavy roles so far. Could there be a lighthearted musical comedy in your future? "I never define what I want to do in that way. 1 never say, Td really like to do a comedy now.' But the sense of humor in Canada is so bizarre, you can make things that are way out there. People just don't take themselves all that seriously here, so the humor is quite irreverent and self-critical. I think there is something specific to growing up where it's really cold and people just play hockey. " How her earlier role in the controversial necrophilia-as-poetry film Kissed, playing a romantically challenged undertaker, brought her attention from more than just studio executives: “I remember meeting people who would sort of give me this very serious look and say things like. *1 really understood that movie.’ And I would say, 'Oh ... you know I'm an actress, right? You understand that that's not really me, right?"'