Tracy Dawson

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Tracy Dawson
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Dawson in 2011
Born (1983-04-09) 9 April 1983 (age 42)
Ottawa, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Occupation(s)film, television and stage actress, playwright
Known for Call Me Fitz , The Gavin Crawford Show

Tracy Dawson is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her role as Meghan Fitzpatrick in Call Me Fitz , for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series or Program at the 2011 Gemini Awards. [1] She won the same award at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. [2] She has lived in Los Angeles since 2006 and gained American citizenship in 2015.

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Career

An alumna of The Second City's Toronto company, [3] her other credits include The Gavin Crawford Show , [4] Wild Card , Duct Tape Forever , SketchCom and an appearance as a guest anchor on This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2006. She also portrayed Deimata, Skylar's personal monster from the 2012 Disney Channel Original Movie, Girl vs. Monster .

Dawson wrote the stage play Them & Us, which premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2009. [5] She has also written for Call Me Fitz, SketchCom, Single White Spenny, and Your Family or Mine .

In 2022, her book Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men To Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed To Do was published by HarperCollins. [6]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 Loser Drug Saleswoman
2001 On the Line Goth Girl
2002 Duct Tape Forever Mandy Humphrey
2002Fancy DancingFunny Singer
2003 Honey Assistant Director
2011 Chillerama Molly

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Talk to Me ThelmaTelevision film
1998 Goosebumps MotherEpisode: "Chillogy: Part 1: Squeal of Fortune"
1998, 1999 SketchCom Various2 episodes
1999 Twice in a Lifetime Pauline KraftEpisode: "O'er the Ramparts We Watched"
2000–2003 The Gavin Crawford Show Heather Scranton30 episodes
2001 The Endless Grind VariousEpisode #1.8
2002 Doc Angel WilliamsEpisode: "Busy Man"
2003 America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story Shrine Girl #2Television film
2004–2005 Wild Card Maizie / Clerk4 episodes
2005 G-Spot CynthiaEpisode: "Gigi Gets a Job"
2005Recipe for a Perfect ChristmasCodyTelevision film
2010–2013 Call Me Fitz Meghan Fitzpatrick46 episodes
2012 Girl vs. Monster DeimataTelevision film

References

  1. ↑ "'Call Me Fitz' writer Tracy Dawson wins Gemini for best actress". Yahoo! News, September 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Call Me Fitz, Seed each get 8 nods at Canadian Screen Awards". The Chronicle Herald , January 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Comedy Travels Light--and Well". Chicago Tribune , August 20, 1999.
  4. ↑ "That's so Gavin and Mary" [ usurped ]. Jam! , February 20, 2002.
  5. ↑ "Them's the breaks". NOW , January 6, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Screenwriter Tracy Dawson considered posing as a man to further her career. She wrote a book about it instead". theglobeandmail.com. May 16, 2022.
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