Samantha Weinstein beams for the cameras after taking best female performance at the ACTRA Toronto awards on Feb. 24. The fifth-grade student won for her leading turn in Renuka Jeyapalan’s short, Big Girl, playing a tyke who clashes with her mom’s new boyfriend. She’ll be seen next in Ken Finkleman’s At the Hotel.

Tom McCamus won best male performance for his title role in the CBC MOW Waking up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story. Sarah Polley, meanwhile, took the union’s annual award of excellence for her 20-year career in film and TV.