rOSEMARY dUNSMORE

Rosemary is an award winning actress, director and teacher whose career has taken her across Canada, the United States and Europe. She spent three seasons at the Stratford Festival playing such roles as Helena in Dream, Celia in As You Like It and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. She was awarded the Masque Award in Quebec for her performance in Wit, the first English speaking actress to be so honoured. She won a Dora for Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers. She has been nominated for Doras on three other occasions. Her first major television appearance in CBC's Blind Faith won her the Earl Grey Award. Her frequent television appearances have garnered her four Gemini nominations. She is probably best known for her role as Katherine Brooke in Anne of Green Gables-The Sequel, Aunt Abigail in The Road to Avonlea and the title role in the CBC series Mom P.I. Some favourite roles: Total Recall, St Urbain's Horseman, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Profoundly Normal, Liar, Liar, The Winning Season, and Citizen Duane. She is also a busy director. Recent directing credits include: Sexy Laundry, Here on the Flight Path, Whale Music, Jane Eyre, Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Virginia, Measure for Measure, Dinner with Friends, Wuthering Heights, Fighting Words, Walking on Crimson, Alls Well That Ends Well and The Glace Bay Miner's Museum. She is the Actor in Residence at the Canadian Film Centre. She was chosen by Macleans Magazine in 1990 for the Honour Roll of Canadians Who Make a Difference. Rosemary recently appeared on stage in The Sisters Rosenswieg, The Glass Menagerie (Toronto) and in Long Day's Journey Into Night and Glorious!(Montreal). She has recently finished shooting the feature film Orphan, the BBC miniseries Burn Up, Hallmark MOW Saving Grace and CTV MOW The Good Times Are Killing Me.