Kaelen Ohm at TiFF Talks Bringing Extreme Skier to Film Roles
Kaelen Ohm says what got her as a fearless young skier better and faster down mountains in small-town Canada now drives her climb onto everyone’s call sheets as a go-for-it actor, filmmaker and musician. “For some reason, I have branched out from everything I’ve known from my childhood, in following this path completely into the unknown,” Ohm tells The Hollywood Reporter about having gone from being a powder hound in Fernie, British Columbia as a child to her latest film, The Betrayers, world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. That’s whether she’s executing a steep cliff drop as a skier, where “you have to trust and be really present,” or her Betrayers role as Leora, a mistress to a powerful Israeli politician who ultimately decides “to go off on her own and make a mark in any way she knows.” That need to go her own way as an actor and artist over two decades includes early TV roles in Hell on Wheels, Taken and Murdoch Mysteries. “Often you are playing against a show’s leads, …







