Biography

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman grew up in many places, where all extremes account for who she is: Pangnirtung, Iqaluit and Los Angeles. Finding her career in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Malaya started her career in in "Qanurli", the popular Inuktitut-language comedy show, where she plays a main character. She starred in the 2014 Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's (Angry Inuk) short film Aviliaq, and as hosts "Nunavummi Mamarijaut" a cooking show where she travels to different Nunavut communities, discovering local food traditions through hunting, butchering and cooking. Outside of acting she spent two years in her home town of Pangnirtung as a journalist with APTN National News, covering key issues and events important to Inuit.

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