Andrea Werhun

Actress

Canada

Biography

Andrea Werhun is a writer, performer, and producer based in Toronto. She is the author & co-creator of Modern Whore: A Memoir (2022, Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada) with filmmaker Nicole Bazuin. The book is soon to be a major motion picture, starring Andrea and executive produced by 2024 Palme D'Or winner Sean Baker. In 2023, Andrea co-wrote, produced, and performed in Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie, starring Black non-binary former sex worker Kitoko Mai, about their dissociative ide…

Filmography

6.0

Modern Whore

Self

Modern Whore is a hybrid documentary that reimagines popular depictions of sex work through the lived experiences of writer, performer, and sex worker, Andrea Werhun.

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Paying for It

Denise/Yulissa

In the late '90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, a painfully introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process.

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Advocate

Josie

A modern day drama of deceit and betrayal during a trip in a motor home when a young woman kidnaps a despicable couple for their inheritance and forces them to acknowledge the shameful deeds from their past.

6.1

Modern Whore

Self

Former escort Andrea Werhun shares the ins and outs of escort review board culture to expose deeper complexities of sexual power and social stigma in a post #metoo world.

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Last Night at the Strip Club

Herself

Toronto stripper Andrea Werhun was ousted from her club by the COVID-19 lockdown. Now, she's taking business online as a muse for lonely men while struggling to realize her own creative ambitions.

10.0

Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie

Stacey Womansbridge / Zombie

A surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of a Black, nonbinary, disabled artist and former sex worker.

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