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Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian actress and singer. She has worked in film, television, and on stage. She has worked in film, television, and on stage. McCarthy is one of Canada's most honoured actors, having won two Genie Awards (film), two Gemini Awards (television), an ACTRA Award , and two Dora Awards (theatre), along ...
Sheila McCarthy. Actress: Women Talking. Sheila met spouse Peter Donaldson while doing an aerobics warm-up (she was the instructor) while in a punk-rock production of "Godspell" at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario in 1983. With Donaldson (whose father was a Commodore of the Canadian Steamship Line), she had two daughters: one born in 1992 ...
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Sheila McCarthy, one of the hardest-working performers in Canadian film, television and on stage, began as a self-described "lovely little dancer girl" at the Thornhill Free School north of Toronto. Her first appearance on stage was at Toronto's Elgin Theatre in Peter Pan at 6 years old. She attended the University of Victoria and spent a year ...
Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian stage, film and television actress, singer and dancer, best known for playing Polly Vandersma in the feature film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, as well as supporting character Sarah Hamoudi (Cunningham) in the television series Little Mosque on the Prairie. She's a graduate in Theatre and Art History from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In ...
Sheila McCarthy. Actor. (b. January 27, 1956 Toronto, Ontario) This patrician beauty – whose plain but strikingly inquisitive features often find her typecast in film roles as awkward, bookish types – is one of Canada’s finest actors and most versatile performers. Trained as a dancer (she began singing and dancing on stage at age six ...
A veteran of Canadian film, television, and theater, Sheila McCarthy has been acting since she first took the stage in a production of Peter Pan as a young girl. Filmmaker Sarah Polley likewise began her career as a child actor in Toronto. "I played her mother in one particular film called Hidden Room ," McCarthy recalls.
Sheila McCarthy. The Adventures of Pinocchio. Director. Sheila was born in Toronto and began her career at The Charlottetown Festival as a professional dancer when she was sixteen. She has spent four decades working across the country in every major theatre including Soulpepper, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and is the recipient of two ...
