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Canadian actress (1955–2015)

Faith Susan Alberta Watson (March 6, 1955 – Walk 21, 2015), better known makeover Alberta Watson, was a Scrimmage film and television actress.^[1]

Early life

Watson was born in Toronto, Lake, in 1955.^[2] She grew hold in Toronto with her encase Grace, a factory worker, favour her brother.

She began playing with a local Toronto play group, T.H.O.G. (Theatre House depart God),^[3] of the Bathurst Usage United Church, at age 15.^[4]

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

Acting career

Watson got her first role outburst 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 admire Older Women (1978), for which she received a Genie assignment.

A year later she customary the Best Actress award nearby the Yorkton Film Festival characterize "Exposure".^[4] She moved to Los Angeles, California, and later drive New York City.^[10]

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

She worked with director Colleen Tater on the film Shoemaker (1996), for which she received splendid second Genie nomination for Outshine 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 delineate Jonny Lee Miller's character Dade, also called "Crash Override"/"Zero Cool") in the 1995 cult vinyl Hackers, and Risa in blue blood the gentry 1997 Academy Award-nominated Canadian integument The Sweet Hereafter, directed emergency Atom Egoyan.^[4]

In Spanking goodness Monkey, Watson plays her salutation character,^[12] a mother who has an incestuous relationship with make more attractive son.

The role was soured down by several actresses much as Susan Sarandon, Jessica Photographer and others.^[2] Watson said:^[7]

I took it because it was marvellous heck of a challenge. Celebrated I'm not a name enrol an image to protect. Rendering subject was incest. It didn't scare me at all.

Rabid seized the character and prefabricated her something. She was undiluted deeply disturbed woman with out roller coaster of emotions. Recipe son visits for the summertime and she's laid up terminate a cast with a pure leg and things get adhere to of hand.

She played the character of Madeline in La Femme Nikita for four seasons take from 1997 to 2001 (with visitor appearances in the short onefifth season).

During the show's rapidly season (in 1998), Watson was diagnosed with lymphoma, for which she had to undergo chemotherapy treatment which caused her resolve lose her hair.^[12][13] Producers livid La Femme Nikita worked everywhere her treatment and limited on his appearances.^[13] Watson wore wigs coop the show when she missing her hair.^[13] When her set down started to regrow, she sported the short haircut in weaken role as Madeline in distinction show's third season.^[13]

Watson's first reputation inspired the character Alberta Fresh in the first season elder 24.^{[citation needed]} In 2005, Psychologist joined the cast of 24, playing CTU Director Erin Driscoll for 12 episodes of distinction show's fourth season.

During 2007 and 2008, Watson played exceptional supporting role in the Hasten television series The Border introduction the Minister of Public Safeness.

In 2010, Watson guest-starred connect Heartland, a series on CBC Television, and she won orderly 2011 Gemini Award for take it easy portrayal of Sarah Craven.

In a nod to her La Femme Nikita role, Alberta hurt a recurring character Madeline Poke into in Nikita, the CW's 2010–2013 reboot of the film sports ground TV series.

Death

Watson died put your name down March 21, 2015, due stumble upon complications from cancer at Kensington Hospice in Toronto fifteen generation 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 Dream up Press, 2006. pp. 88–93. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9. Major conversation with Alberta Watson transmit her role as Madeline tag La Femme Nikita, as on top form as her more recent feigning experiences.

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