Anne Anglin

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Anne Anglin (born 1942) is a Canadian actress and theatre director. [1] She is most noted for her performance as Sharon in the 1986 television film Turning to Stone , for which she was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series at the 1st Gemini Awards, [2] and her recurring role as Mrs. Cooney, the grandmother of J.T. Yorke, in Degrassi: The Next Generation .

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Her other film and television credits have included the films Ada , Scanners , Butterbox Babies and House , and appearances in the television series King of Kensington , Seeing Things , Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story , Train 48 and This Is Wonderland .

Most prominently a stage actress, her roles have included productions of Judith Merril's Headspace, [3] Erika Ritter's Winter 1671, [4] David Fennario's Balconville , [5] William Shakespeare's Macbeth , [6] Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land, [7] Sally Clark's Lost Souls and Missing Persons, [8] Layne Coleman's Blue City Slammers, [9] James W. Nichol's stage adaptation of Margaret Laurence's novel The Stone Angel [1] and Michel Tremblay's Counter Service. [10]

She won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best female performance, midsized theatre division in 1993 for The Stone Angel. [11] She was nominated for best female performance in a featured role in 1986 for Blue City Slammers, [12] and best female performance, midsized theatre in 1995 for Counter Service. [13]

Personal life

Her father was magazine journalist and editor Gerald Anglin. [14]

She is married to playwright Paul Thompson, [15] and is the mother of theatre director Severn Thompson. [16]

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  1. 1 2 Vit Wagner, "Stone Angel star stoops to conquer". Toronto Star , April 5, 1993.
  2. ↑ Sid Adilman, "Anne leads field in Geminis race". Toronto Star , October 16, 1986.
  3. ↑ Jay Scott, "Sci-fi lost in theatre space". The Globe and Mail , June 5, 1978.
  4. ↑ Bryan Johnson, "Winter 1671 flimsy and silly". The Globe and Mail , February 8, 1979.
  5. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "Masterful acting abounds in Fennario's Balconville". The Globe and Mail , October 4, 1979.
  6. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "Macbeth dies dull death as supporting actors fail". The Globe and Mail , October 9, 1980.
  7. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "Blyth's hit also its worthiest drama". The Globe and Mail , July 18, 1981.
  8. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "Clark's comedy Lost Souls hasn't quite found itself yet". The Globe and Mail , May 30, 1984.
  9. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "A condescending view of rural life". The Globe and Mail , October 18, 1985.
  10. ↑ Kate Taylor, "Tremblay's drama important yet somehow unsatisfactory". The Globe and Mail , April 8, 1995.
  11. ↑ "Dora Mavor Moore Award winners". Toronto Star , June 22, 1993.
  12. ↑ Robert Crew, "Tarragon sweeps the nominations for Dora Awards". Toronto Star , May 15, 1986.
  13. ↑ "And the Dora nominees are ...". The Globe and Mail , May 13, 1995.
  14. ↑ Alan Barnes, "Gerald Anglin, editor for top magazines". Toronto Star , July 24, 1996.
  15. ↑ "Thompson to be awarded GG honour". Stratford Beacon-Herald , March 5, 2011.
  16. ↑ Joel Levy, "'A Day in the Life' with Toronto theatre director Severn Thompson". Toronto Guardian, July 20, 2019.
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