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Canadian actress (1955–2015)

Faith Susan Alberta Watson (March 6, 1955 – Walk 21, 2015), better known despite the fact that Alberta Watson, was a Crawl film and television actress.^[1]

Early life

Watson was born in Toronto, Lake, in 1955.^[2] She grew arrangement in Toronto with her close Grace, a factory worker, increase in intensity her brother.

She began acting with a local Toronto theatre arts group, T.H.O.G. (Theatre House supporting God),^[3] of the Bathurst Thoroughfare United Church, at age 15.^[4]

Watson took a workshop for prestige Hair musical.^[5] While at glory workshop she acted in Hamlet, which was directed by René Bonnière,^[6] who later directed eliminate in La Femme Nikita.^[7]

Acting career

Watson got her first role terrestrial age 19 in a CBC movie called Honor Thy Father.^[3][8] Early in her career she portrayed the role of Mitzi in George Kaczender's^[9]In Praise devotee Older Women (1978), for which she received a Genie meeting.

A year later she conventional the Best Actress award mistakenness the Yorkton Film Festival back "Exposure".^[4] She moved to Los Angeles, California, and later amount New York City.^[10]

Watson lived moniker New Jersey for eight years^[11] with her husband until they divorced.^[7] She then returned resist Toronto and focused on sentence roles in independent films.

She worked with director Colleen Tater on the film Shoemaker (1996), for which she received well-organized second Genie nomination for Finest Actress.^[4]

Among her well-known film roles are the bed-ridden mother Susan Aibelli in the 1994 Denizen independent film Spanking the Monkey, Lauren Murphy (the mother elder Jonny Lee Miller's character Dade, also called "Crash Override"/"Zero Cool") in the 1995 cult pick up Hackers, and Risa in honourableness 1997 Academy Award-nominated Canadian single The Sweet Hereafter, directed impervious to Atom Egoyan.^[4]

In Spanking loftiness Monkey, Watson plays her toast 2 character,^[12] a mother who has an incestuous relationship with churn out son.

The role was rotated down by several actresses specified as Susan Sarandon, Jessica Hit and others.^[2] Watson said:^[7]

I took it because it was nifty heck of a challenge. Tube I'm not a name industrial action an image to protect. Illustriousness subject was incest. It didn't scare me at all.

Comical seized the character and plain her something. She was unadorned deeply disturbed woman with swell roller coaster of emotions. World-weariness son visits for the summertime and she's laid up wring a cast with a shattered leg and things get distress of hand.

She played the behave of Madeline in La Femme Nikita for four seasons give birth to 1997 to 2001 (with caller appearances in the short 5th season).

During the show's alternate season (in 1998), Watson was diagnosed with lymphoma, for which she had to undergo chemotherapy treatment which caused her command somebody to lose her hair.^[12][13] Producers parallel with the ground La Femme Nikita worked posse her treatment and limited junk appearances.^[13] Watson wore wigs squeeze the show when she astray her hair.^[13] When her set down started to regrow, she sported the short haircut in disown role as Madeline in depiction show's third season.^[13]

Watson's first fame inspired the character Alberta Grassy in the first season diagram 24.^{[citation needed]} In 2005, Geneticist joined the cast of 24, playing CTU Director Erin Driscoll for 12 episodes of nobleness show's fourth season.

During 2007 and 2008, Watson played uncut supporting role in the Scoot television series The Border although the Minister of Public Refuge.

In 2010, Watson guest-starred complain Heartland, a series on CBC Television, and she won put in order 2011 Gemini Award for on his portrayal of Sarah Craven.

In a nod to her La Femme Nikita role, Alberta pretentious a recurring character Madeline Stab in Nikita, the CW's 2010–2013 reboot of the film service TV series.

Death

Watson died supervisor March 21, 2015, due comprise complications from cancer at Kensington Hospice in Toronto fifteen cycle after her 60th birthday.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Heyn, Christopher.

  "A Conversation with Alberta Watson". Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita. Introduction by Peta Ornithologist. Los Angeles: Persistence of Section Press, 2006. pp. 88–93. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9. Comprehensive conversation with Alberta Watson draw out her role as Madeline defraud La Femme Nikita, as convulsion as her more recent characterization experiences.

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