Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress [1] who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me [2] [3] and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper . She is also known for her role as Granny Goodness on the CW series Smallville .
Willes played the recurring role of Agent Karen E. Kosseff, a government counselor, on the TV show The X-Files . [4] She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV. [5] She was nominated in the 2009 Leo Awards in the category of Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for that role. [6] Like her Dead Like Me co-star Callum Blue, she was cast as the villain Granny Goodness on The CW's Smallville's [7] tenth and final season (Blue appeared in the previous season as Zod). She also had a small role in the award-winning film Trick r Treat starring Anna Paquin, [8] which also featured another Dead Like Me co-star, Britt McKillip. She also played Vera Kane on CW series the 100 .
Christine appeared as Madam Lazar in Catherine Hardwicke's production of Red Riding Hood.
She has won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, [1] [9] and both produced and starred in Jasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man. [10] [11] She directed Metamorphoses at Pacific Theatre in August 2008, [12] and played Clara Epp in Touchstone Theatre's 2010 World Premiere of Sally Stubb's Herr Beckmann's People. [13]
Willes had a recurring role as Patty Deckler in the third series of the drama series Mistresses in 2015.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Big Bully | Teacher - 1970 | |
1998 | I'll Be Home for Christmas | Race Official | |
2000 | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | Lady #2 | |
2002 | Bang Bang You're Dead | Sandwich Woman | |
2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Arlene Sheehy | |
2006 | The Wicker Man | Sister Violet | |
2007 | Trick 'r Treat | Mrs. Henderson | |
2009 | Dead like Me: Life After Death | Delores Herbig | [14] |
2011 | Red Riding Hood | Madame Lazar | |
2011 | Sucker Punch | Reception Nurse / Designer | |
2013 | Horns | Receptionist | |
2013 | Lawrence & Holloman | Holloman's Mother | |
2014 | Kid Cannabis | Female Border Guard | |
2014 | If I Stay | Nurse Davis | |
2014 | Two 4 One | Dr. Sharp | |
2014 | Feed the Gods | Baba | |
2014 | Mountain Men | Marion Pollard | |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | WSU Grad Speaker / Reader | |
2015 | The Driftless Area | Concerned Woman | |
2018 | The Professor | Widow #1 | |
2019 | A Dog's Way Home | Leslie |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | 21 Jump Street | Nurse | Episode: "Woolly Bullies" |
1992 | Shame | Claire | Television film |
1992 | Child of Rage | Teacher | |
1994 | Moment of Truth: To Walk Again | Balboa nurse | |
1995 | Serving in Silence | Col. Angela Webber | |
1995–2016 | The X-Files | Karen Kosseff / Sister Mary | 4 episodes |
1996 | A Kidnapping in the Family | Ellen | Television film |
1996 | For Hope | Nurse Start | |
1997 | The Outer Limits | Nurse Yvette | Episode: "Dark Rain" |
1997 | Dad's Week Off | Alice | Television film |
1998 | Outrage | Judge | |
1997 | Cupid | Doctor #1 | Episode: "Pilot" |
1998–1999 | Mercy Point | Nurse Molly Tobitt | 7 episodes |
1998–1999 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Mrs. Gotteramerding | 5 episodes |
1999 | Silver Wolf | Mrs. Gates | Television film |
1999 | Hope Island | Mrs. Salvo | Episode: "It Takes a Voyage to Learn" |
2000 | Runaway Virus | Tall Woman | Television film |
2000 | Sole Survivor | Mercy Ealing | |
2001 | So Weird | Waitress | Episode: "The Muse" |
2002 | Dark Angel | Church Lady | Episode: "Freak Nation" |
2003–2004 | Dead Like Me | Delores Herbig | 26 episodes |
2004 | Kingdom Hospital | Emma Warburton | Episode: "The West Side of Midnight" |
2004 | The Book of Ruth | DeeDee | Television film |
2005 | FBI: Negotiator | Mrs. Branch | |
2006 | A Little Thing Called Murder | Loretta | |
2006 | Psych | Ms. Foote | Episode: "Spellingg Bee" |
2006 | Four Extraordinary Women | Dr. Warner | Television film |
2006 | To Have and to Hold | McNary | |
2007 | Passion's Web | DA Lockwood | |
2007 | Write & Wrong | Marty's Assistant | |
2007 | Flash Gordon | Edie Atkins | Episode: "Life Source" |
2007 | Snowglobe | Joy | Television film |
2007–2009 | Reaper | Gladys | 15 episodes |
2008 | Nightmare at the End of the Hall | Robin | Television film |
2009 | Defying Gravity | Dr. Greer | 2 episodes |
2009 | The Good Wife | Laine | Episode: "Pilot" |
2009 | Sorority Wars | Mary Lee Snow | Television film |
2010–2011 | Smallville | Granny Goodness | 3 episodes |
2011 | To the Mat | Cecile Slocum | Television film |
2011 | Possessing Piper Rose | Ruth | |
2011 | InSecurity | Alex's Mother | 2 episodes |
2012 | The Factory | Realtor | Television film |
2012 | The 12 Disasters of Christmas | Miriam | |
2012–2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | E.R. Nurse | 8 episodes |
2014 | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Vivian Lasseter | Episode: "Time to Start Livin'" |
2014 | The 100 | Vera Kane | 3 episodes |
2014 | Zapped | Principal Mumford | Television film |
2014 | The Christmas Secret | Gloria | |
2014 | Til Death Do Us Part | Liz | |
2015 | I Do, I Do, I Do | Margaret Lorenzo | |
2015 | The Returned | Loretta Russo | 3 episodes |
2015 | Mistresses | Patty Deckler | 7 episodes |
2015 | Supernatural | Jenna's Grandmother | Episode: "Form and Void" |
2015–2017 | The Gourmet Detective | Doris | 4 episodes |
2016 | Heartbeat | Mrs. Rothberg | Episode: "Pilot" |
2016 | Summer Love | Eleanor | Television film |
2016 | Aftermath | The Nurse | Episode: "Hieronymo's Mad Againe" |
2017 | You Me Her | Rita Seaver | 2 episodes |
2018 | The Good Doctor | Judge Vicki Spain | Episode: "36 Hours" |
2018 | Christmas Pen Pals | Martha | Television film |
2019 | Michelle's | Tea Woman | Episode: "A Queen's Cowboy" |
2019 | The Last Bridesmaid | Grandma Raye | Television film |
2020 | Martha's Vineyard Mysteries | Judy | Episode: "A Beautiful Place to Die" |
2020 | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Elaine Kosgrove | Episode: "The Returned" |
2021 | Turner & Hooch | Senator Helen Pine | Episode: "To Serve and Pawtect" |
2021 | Family Law | Carole Creedy | Episode: "Blame It On The Mother" |
2021 | Legends of Tomorrow | Eleanor Roosevelt | Episode: "A Woman's Place Is in the War Effort!" |
2022 | The Wedding Veil | Hilda | Television film |
2022 | Upload | Janet Boxner | Episode: "The Outing" |
2023 | Superman & Lois | Governor Kerry Wexler | Episode: "Collision Course" |
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