Paula Giroday

Paula Giroday
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Paula Giroday is a Canadian actress, writer, and producer who portrayed a Female Dancer at Mysteries in Caprica's "Ghosts in the Machine".

Career

Giroday was born in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

Acting

Giroday is known for her role as Trish in Once Upon a Time (2011). Her other television credits include The Detour (2016) and Motive (2013).

Additional television appearances include Smallville (2009) as Gorgeous Latina #2 in "Echo," and Alice (2009) as a Go Go Dancer.

Her film work includes roles in Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas (2021), Christmas Sail (2021), and Playing Cupid (2021) as Misty. In 2022, she appeared in Family Law as Odessa.

Dance and Performance Background

Giroday has been performing since the age of three. She met her True Heroines collaborators Fiona Vroom and Jovanna Huguet while working together at a Vancouver cabaret, where they danced together for two years. When that cabaret closed, the three performers decided to continue working together and created their own multimedia project.

Giroday explained their motivation for creating performance opportunities:

We want to be able to sing, dance, and sing all the time, especially as you get older and you're not necessarily getting as much work in the professional dance world as you might be getting when you were younger. We never want to lose that and keep that.

—Paula Giroday, That Shelf interview, March 2014

Producer and Writer

Giroday was the creator and executive producer of the webseries The True Heroines (2011-2013), in which she also portrayed Dottie Rodriguez, a 1950s housewife with super strength.

The series was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best web content. Set in 1951 New Paradise Hill, the webseries followed three former genetically-created supersoldiers attempting to live as suburban housewives while evading the corporation that created them.

The production emphasized female representation both in front of and behind the camera, with a female director, female cinematographer, and large female crew. The project combined both a webseries and live stage cabarets, which the creators called a "comic strip cabaret" featuring vignettes exploring the characters' backstories in the 1940s.

Describing the thematic goals of the series, Giroday explained the metaphor of hidden identities in 1950s society:

The 50s was very much a time for things like that. People didn't really have superpowers, but lots of people definitely took it upon themselves to hide who they were. If you were gay, you couldn't say it. If you were hyperactive, you had hysteria. If you were a women, you had a whole other list of expectations. It was all so self-contained in that time, so that's what kind of got us thinking about how our superpowers would fit into that and make these characters who they are.

—Paula Giroday, That Shelf interview, March 2014

She also worked as choreographer on the short film Three Days.

Coaching and Writing

Giroday works as a sex and intimacy coach through her practice Sensual Heart Wellness. She writes on Substack under the name "LoveSexIntelligence," describing herself as a "Sex and relationship coach, mother of two, wife, and curious woman figuring it out moment to moment." Her Substack shares "real, honest, personal and expert insight into love and sex."

In her writing, Giroday explores themes of capacity, burnout, and self-acceptance, drawing from her experiences balancing motherhood, marriage, and her coaching practice.

Personal Life

Giroday is married with two children. Her husband works out of town, requiring her to frequently manage the household independently.

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