[1] Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, she chose to pursue acting as a career after being cast as Abigail in her high school production of The Crucible.
[1] In 1979, The Globe and Mail theatre critic Bryan Johnson named Hogan one of the year's best actresses for her performance in John Murrell's Waiting for the Parade.
[5] In 1991, Hogan appeared in Cynthia Grant and Svetlana Zylin's Djuna: What of the Night with Company of Sirens in Toronto, Ontario.
[7] Other roles around this time included Rolling Vengeance, the television film Easy Prey and a guest appearance in Street Legal,[7] while her stage roles included a First Nations spirit in Linda Griffiths's Jessica,[7] Marjorie in a production of William Mastrosimone's Extremities,[8] and as Matilda, opposite her husband as Zastrozzi, in George F. Walker's Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline.
[9] In 1988, she was a guest co-host of CTV's talk show Lifetime for a week during regular host Liz Grogan's pregnancy leave.