Diane Nyland

Diane Nyland Proctor (20 January 1944 – 6 October 2014) was a Canadian actress, director and choreographer.

She is perhaps best known for having portrayed the title role in the 1970-71 CTV television series The Trouble with Tracy.

After that show's production run ended in 1971, she became a director and choreographer in musical theatre,[2] with only one further television role, in a 1992 episode of Street Legal.

[9] She served as artistic director of the Kawartha Summer Theatre in Kawartha Lakes in the 1990s;[6] in 1997 she returned to the Charlottetown Festival to direct productions of both Johnny Belinda and Anne of Green Gables - The Musical.

[10] Nyland died in Toronto from heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 6 October 2014.