Along with her writing partner and husband
Mark Ellis, Morgenstern created
Flashpoint, a Canadian TV police drama which premiered July 2008 on CTV and CBS, and ran for five years before the show ended by creative choice in 2012. The show was awarded the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Contribution to Canadian Television, in addition to both a Gemini and Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series. Flashpoint has been sold to over 50 countries outside of Canada and the U.S. Most recently, they were showrunners on
Allegiance (CBC/NBCUniversal), a police procedural set in Surrey, BC. She and Mark Ellis were also co-creators and showrunners on
X Company, a
WWII espionage thriller set in France, Germany and Canada. Shot over three years in Budapest, it was also sold to many territories internationally, including France (TF1), UK (History), the United States (Ovation), Latin America (History), and Japan (Mystery). It was also a Canadian Screen Awards nominee for Best Dramatic Series. Morgenstern has been twice nominated for
Genie (Canadian Academy) Awards for directing the short film
Remembrance, which she also co-wrote and co-starred in with her husband
Mark Ellis, and co-directing (with her brother
Mark Morgenstern) the short film
Curtains, which she also wrote, an in which she played the lead role. Morgenstern stated in a 2003 interview that she has
synesthesia. She is also a practitioner of Krav Maga martial arts training. == Filmography ==