Dixie Seatle

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Dixie Seatle is a Canadian actress and faculty member in the Acting for Film and Television program at Humber College's School of Creative and Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario. [1] Her first film credit was a supporting role in the 1978 production of A Gift to Last . [2] Seatle won Gemini Awards for her work on the series Adderly and Paradise Falls [3]

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She is a graduate of Dawson College and the National Theatre School in Montreal. [1] She has also taught at the Stratford Festival, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, George Brown College, and Earl Haig Secondary School.

In an op-ed published in September 2014, in The Globe and Mail , triggered by observing a farmer sending a cow to the slaughterhouse, due to its record of miscarriages, Seatle wrote about bonding with the cow over the loss of an offspring, because she too had lost a child. [4]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave Betty Anne
1981 Ticket to Heaven Sarah
1996 Joe's So Mean to Josephine Mrs. Collins
1999 Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang Jacob's Mom

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1975 Dr. Simon Locke Carol ThompsonEpisode: "Insight to Murder"
1978Hedda Gabler Thea Elvsted Television film
1978, 1979 A Gift to Last Sheila Dooley2 episodes
1980 A Population of One Willy DoyleTelevision film
1982 The Littlest Hobo Mrs. DonnenEpisode: "Napoleon"
1984 The Glitter Dome Amazing GraceTelevision film
1986 Night Heat Kate ChaffeeEpisode: "Neighbors"
1986 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye SadieEpisode: "Spanish Blood"
1986–1988 Adderly Mona Ellerby44 episodes
1988 Katts and Dog Mrs. O'NeilEpisode: "Race Against Time"
1989 Men Norma GreenEpisode: "When the Wind Blows"
1989 War of the Worlds Teri NovakEpisode: "So Shall Ye Reap"
1990, 1992 E.N.G. Sara / Betty Schultz2 episodes
1992 Beyond Reality Elizabeth WadeEpisode: "The Color of Mad"
1992 The Women of Windsor Camilla Television film
1992 Forever Knight Barbara NortonEpisode: "Spin Doctor"
1992 Neon Rider JaneEpisode: "Point Break"
1993 Street Legal Francine DeckerEpisode: "Black and White in Color"
1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues SharonEpisode: "Flying Fists of Fury II: Masters of Illusion"
1998 Goosebumps Aunt Benna2 episodes
1998Stranger in TownOfficer Terri OrloffTelevision film
1998 Due South Beth BotrelleEpisode: "The Ladies' Man"
1999 Psi Factor Laura YoungEpisode: "Body and Soul"
1999 The Lady in Question Gertie MoserTelevision film
2000 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne Lily LedouxEpisode: "The Ballad of Steeley Joe"
2000 Range of Motion Pat SwensonTelevision film
2001 Doc LoreneEpisode: "Pilot: Part 1"
2001–2008 Paradise Falls Bea Sutton72 episodes
2002 Screech Owls Dr. RoeEpisode: "Sacred Ground"
2002Gilda Radner: It's Always SomethingJoanna BullTelevision film
2002The PactSherrill Delaney
2002 Salem Witch Trials Sarah Osborne
2002–2003 Street Time Judy Goldstein3 episodes
2003 The Piano Man's Daughter Eleanor HessTelevision film
2004 Lives of the Saints Signy Bok
2009, 2014 Murdoch Mysteries Mrs. Kitchen2 episodes

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dixie Seatle (1st and 2nd year acting)". Humber College . Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  2. ↑ Dixie Seatle at IMDb
  3. ↑ "Canada's Awards Database". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television . Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  4. ↑ Dixie Seatle (2014-09-07). "A stillborn calf and a mother's sorrow". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2019-09-19. I had been talking to her, letting her know I understood, in some desperate attempt to bridge the human/cow gap and, I confess, some misguided need to compensate for her detached cow friends. Also, I think I needed to share with her that I, too, had lost a baby.
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