Ramona Gilmour-Darling

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Ramona Gilmour-Darling
Born1975
Other namesRamona Darling
OccupationActress
Years active1999–present

Ramona Gilmour-Darling is a Canadian actress. [1] [2]

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Career

In 2006, she began portraying Loonette the Clown (taking over for Alyson Court, who played the original Loonette from Seasons 1-6) on the Canadian children's television series The Big Comfy Couch for the seventh and final season, [3] which aired in Canada on Treehouse and on various PBS stations in the United States. She has also appeared on stage in leading roles in many plays and musicals in Canada, most notably as Mary in The Secret Garden (Young People's Theatre, 2001) in Toronto, Anne in Anne of Green Gables (2005) and Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera (2006), Eponine in Les Misérables and Kitty in The Drowsy Chaperone at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. She appeared as a group member in an Season 4, Episode 7 of Piper Perabo's television series Covert Affairs.

Personal life

In 2019, Gilmour-Darling started the company, Theatrical Choir with Adrian Marchuk of Jersey Boys at the Windermere United Church in Toronto, Canada. [4]

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  1. "Life throws hard challenges sometimes and I have found the women in my life help pull me through every time. Thank you. (P.S. Not to overlook the wonderful men too...I just don't have a song for you...yet.) She's Got A Way, by Billy Joel". facebook.com.
  2. "I Call It Home, by David Archibald. Not really sure what inspired this sharing today but I'm going with it... Choosing love. Xo I was pregnant with S. during this show and he says he could hear me singing this song! That's pretty swell too". facebook.com.
  3. "Ramona Gilmour-Darling". Young People's Theatre. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  4. "I'm starting two youth choirs in the west end on Friday nights with the fantastically talented, Adrian Marchuk. It's going to be great and I'd love to see lots of kids! If you are able to spread the word, share this post, tell other parents, talk to your kids about it, etc... that would be wonderful". facebook.com.