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Kim Faires is a Canadian actress, director, and writer based in Calgary, Alberta,1 best known in the Ghostbusters community for her role as the Waitress at Spinners Roller Hop in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021).2 A member of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists),3 she has built a screen career rooted in Alberta's film industry while also directing and writing her own work, most notably the autobiographical short documentary Hockeyheart (2011).4
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Faires was born and raised in Alberta, Canada.1 She trained as an actor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, earning a Theatre Arts Diploma.3 She later undertook further study at the New Actors Workshop in New York City and with the Company of Rogues actor-training program.3 Stage roles during her training years included Hesther in Equus, as well as appearances in Our Town and Back to Beulah.3
Outside of performance, Faires is an avid recreational ice-hockey player and photographer. Her relationship with hockey directly shaped her most personal film project.
Faires' screen career began with the Canadian psychological thriller Six Figures (2005), directed by David Christensen and based on the novel by Fred Leebron, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.5
In 2011 she wrote, directed, and starred in Hockeyheart, a short autobiographical documentary in which she retraces her personal path from a childhood dream of playing ice hockey to its adult reality, finding that the real thing can exceed the imagined ideal.4 The film draws directly on her own experience as a recreational player.
Additional film credits include The Long Road (2012), Taken Again (Neshama Entertainment),3 and Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game (2020), a Calgary-set ensemble comedy directed by Ted Stenson.6 Faires played a character named Karen in that film, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and won the William F. White Reel Canadian Indie award at the 2021 Canadian Film Festival.6 She also appeared in Who Kidnapped My Mom? (2022) as Detective Brittany Campbell, and in Cold Road (2024), a Canadian thriller directed by Kelvin Redvers about an Indigenous woman threatened by a menacing driver on a remote highway, in which she played a waitress.7
Faires has appeared in several television productions, many filmed in Alberta. She played Detective Janice in episode six of A Teacher (FX on Hulu, 2020), a 10-episode miniseries created by Hannah Fidell, starring Kate Mara and Nick Robinson, which was filmed in Calgary during late 2019.8 Other credits include Tin Star, JonBenét: An American Tragedy, The Bad Orphan, three recurring episodes of the television drama Joe Pickett, and a guest appearance in Season 17, Episode 1 of Heartland (CBC), the long-running Canadian family drama.3
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), Faires appeared as a Waitress at Spinners Roller Hop, a roller-hop diner in Summerville, Oklahoma.2 Her scene takes place during the Summerville cross-rip event: a Miner Ghost manifests at the front bar of the diner, and her character serves it a coffee before looking up and realizing what she is actually looking at. The production shot extensively in Alberta, drawing heavily on local cast and crew, which aligned naturally with Faires' Calgary-based career.
Faires lives in Calgary with her partner Rob Hay and their dog Blu.
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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