[1] She was active in the arts in childhood, including singing in choirs, acting in school plays and reciting at poetry readings, and studied communication and theatre at Mount Royal College in Calgary before beginning to work as a professional actress in the early 1990s.
[7] In 2009, she played Prospera in a gender-flipped Dream in High Park production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest,[8] and won the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Muller in the Citadel Theatre production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.
[9] She has also appeared in productions of M. NourbeSe Philip's Coups and Calypsos,[10] George F. Walker's Problem Child,[11] Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,[12] Djanet Sears's Harlem Duet,[13] Beth Graham's The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble[14] and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
[15] Her film appearances have included Against the Ropes, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Who Killed Atlanta's Children?, Owning Mahowny, Short Hymn, Silent War, Lars and the Real Girl, Final Jeopardy and Defund.
My Louisiana Sky(2001) On television, she has had regular roles as Carlos's mother in The Line, Ingrid Evans in King, Hani Suleman in Shoot the Messenger, Mildred Clarke in Frankie Drake Mysteries and Ronnie Lee in Schitt's Creek.