Canadian actor Kamilla Kowal is currently best known for playing Bonnie McMurray in Letterkenny, a major sitcom that has won numerous awards in Canada and broken streaming records for its platform, CraveTV. She’s only a few years into her screen career, but Kowal has already made an impression elsewhere, with roles in films such as 2018’s The New Romantic, which received a special citation for its premiere at SXSW, and 2019’s American Hangman, which starred Donald Sutherland.
Kowal was born in Ontario, Canada in July 1997. She made her acting debut in a 2016 episode of Web of Lies, a Canadian true-crime series that looks at tragic examples of the deception and manipulation that can happen in online chat rooms and on social media platforms such as Facebook. In the show, Kowal played the best friend of a girl who goes on a date with a guy she met online but never comes back. Later that year, she got her breakthrough role: Bonnie in Letterkenny, a then-new sitcom set in a fictional rural community near Ontario. The show has proved a huge success and is currently on its ninth season, an incredible feat in a world where so many sitcoms never make it past the first. Kowal has been one of the main characters in every season to date.
The show’s success has helped propel Kowal into movie roles. As well as The New Romantic and American Hangman, she has had roles in two TV movies, Secrets In a Small Town, and Winter Love Story (both 2019). More will surely follow for this gifted young actor.