Patricia Phillips

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Patricia Phillips is a Canadian actress and documentary film producer. She is most noted for her performances as Sharon in the 1985 film Bayo , for which she was an ACTRA Award nominee for Best Television Actress at the 15th ACTRA Awards in 1986, [1] and Helen in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts' 1985 production of And a Nightingale Sang , for which she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre) at the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. [2]

She was an ACTRA winner for Best Radio Actress at the 13th ACTRA Awards in 1984 for her performance as Morag Gunn in a 1983 CBC Radio dramatization of Margaret Laurence's novel The Diviners , [3] and a nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th ACTRA Awards in 1985 for her supporting role in The Passion of the Patriots. [4]

She left acting in the 1990s, forming Great North Productions with Tom Radford and her husband Andy Thomson. [5] The company's projects included the television series Destiny Ridge and Jake and the Kid , as well as numerous documentary films. [6] After the firm was acquired by Alliance Atlantis in 2000, [7] Phillips remained with Alliance Atlantis for a number of years as head of documentary production, before returning to acting in small supporting roles in the early 2010s. [5]

References

  1. "ACTRA nominations for 15th annual Nellie Awards on April 2". Montreal Gazette , March 18, 1986.
  2. Deirdre Kelly, "Dora smiles on Tarragon with record 17 nominations". The Globe and Mail , May 15, 1986.
  3. Rick Groen, "Popular mini-series dominates ACTRA awards: Empire earns big dividend". The Globe and Mail , April 4, 1984.
  4. Charles Hanley, "Chautauqua Girl has three chances for a Nellie: ACTRA names award nominees". The Globe and Mail , March 19, 1985.
  5. 1 2 Dominik Wisniewski, "Carrying Place resident stars in IMAX 3D production". Brighton Independent, May 2, 2013.
  6. Alan Kellogg, "Despite grim future of film industry, Great North hangs on". Edmonton Journal , April 2, 1997.
  7. "Great North bought out by Alliance". Halifax Daily News , July 14, 2000.