Dixie Seatle is a

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and faculty member in the Acting for Film and Television program at

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's School of Creative and Performing Arts in

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. Her first film credit was a supporting role in the 1978 production of ''

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''. Seatle won Gemini Awards for her work on the series ''

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'' and ''

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'' She is a graduate of

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and the

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. She has also taught at

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, the

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, and

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. In an op-ed published in September 2014, in ''

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'', triggered by observing a farmer sending a cow to the slaughterhouse, due to its record of miscarriages, Seatle wrote about bonding with the cow over the loss of an offspring, because she too had lost a child.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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Dixie Seatle bio
at Humber's School of Creative and Performing Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Seatle, Dixie Living people Canadian television actresses Best Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners