Anne Anglin (born 1942) is a Canadian actress and theatre director.Vit Wagner, "Stone Angel star stoops to conquer". ''

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'', April 5, 1993. She is most noted for her performance as Sharon in the 1986 television film ''

Turning to Stone ''Turning to Stone'' is a Canadian docudrama television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1986.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 226. Directed by Eric Till and written by Judith Thompson, the fi ...

'', for which she was a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sc ...

nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series at the 1st Gemini Awards, and her recurring role as Mrs. Cooney, the grandmother of J.T. Yorke, in '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. Her other film and television credits have included the films ''

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'', ''

Scanners ''Scanners'' is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and appearances in the television series ''

King of Kensington ''King of Kensington'' is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1980.Mary Jane Miller, ''Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama since 1952''. UBC Press, 2011. . pp. 134-144. Synopsis Al Waxman starred as Larr ...

'', '' Seeing Things'', '' Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story'', ''

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'' and '' This Is Wonderland''. Most prominently a stage actress, her roles have included productions of

Judith Merril Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 – September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be wid ...

's ''Headspace'',

Erika Ritter Erika Ritter (born 26 April 1948) is a Canadian playwright and humorist. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, she attended Sacred Heart Academy for High School, studied drama at McGill University and the University of Toronto. In addition to her publish ...

's ''Winter 1671'',

David Fennario David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for ''Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...

's ''

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'',

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's ''

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'', Anne Chislett's ''Quiet in the Land'',

Sally Clark Sally Clark (August 1964 – 15 March 2007) was an English solicitor who, in November 1999, became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons. Clark's first son died in December 1996 wi ...

's ''Lost Souls and Missing Persons'',

Layne Coleman Layne Coleman is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director, most noted as a former artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille. Originally from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he first became prominent as a cofounder and artistic direct ...

's ''Blue City Slammers'',

James W. Nichol James W. Nichol (born 1940 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. His first novel, ''Midnight Cab'', won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. He was also short-listed for th ...

's stage adaptation of

Margaret Laurence Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-pr ...

's novel ''

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'' and

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wi ...

's ''Counter Service''. She won a

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for best female performance, midsized theatre division in 1993 for ''The Stone Angel''. She was nominated for best female performance in a featured role in 1986 for ''Blue City Slammers'', and best female performance, midsized theatre in 1995 for ''Counter Service''.

Personal life

Her father was magazine journalist and editor Gerald Anglin. She is married to playwright

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, and is the mother of theatre director Severn Thompson.Joel Levy
"'A Day in the Life' with Toronto theatre director Severn Thompson"
''Toronto Guardian'', July 20, 2019.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anglin, Anne 1942 births Living people 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Canadian stage actresses Canadian theatre directors Canadian women theatre directors Dora Mavor Moore Award winners