---
name: "Emma Portner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emma-portner"
fi1m_id: "emma-portner"
imdb_id: "nm8616975"
tmdb_id: 1921416
wikidata_id: "Q48775294"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 November 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T22:32:05.776427+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emma Portner

## Identity

Emma Portner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emma-portner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emma-portner
- **IMDb ID:** nm8616975
- **TMDB ID:** 1921416
- **Wikidata ID:** Q48775294
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Portner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48775294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8616975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1921416

Actor. Born 26 November 1994 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 November 1994, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Portner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48775294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8616975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1921416

## Biography

Emma Portner is a Canadian actor, dancer and choreographer. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, she trained at a competitive studio and the National Ballet of Canada before moving to New York at 17 to study at the Ailey School.

Portner is credited as an actor in *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021) as the Spirit of Gozer and in *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024) as Amanda / Mr. Melancholy / Marco / Evil Clown. Her choreography credits include work for Justin Bieber’s music video “Life Is Worth Living” (2015), the series *The Umbrella Academy* (2019) and the musical *Bat Out of Hell*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), Fi1m 74, as Amanda / Mr. Melancholy / Marco / Evil Clown — [page](https://film.one/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow.md)
- *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021), Fi1m 55, as Spirit of Gozer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-afterlife.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bat Out of Hell: The Musical* (2025), Choreographer
- *I Saw the TV Glow* (2024), as Amanda / Mr. Melancholy / Marco / Evil Clown — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow.md)
- *Ghostbusters: Afterlife* (2021), as Spirit of Gozer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-afterlife.md)
- *Taxi!* (2020), Actor
- *Femme Debout (Acts 1-3)* (2018), Director, Executive Producer
- *You Don't Live Here Anymore* (2017), as Dancer · Director
- *Slack Jaw* (2017), Director
- *PURPOSE - The Movement* (2015), Choreographer

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