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Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian actor, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.
Biography
[edit]In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for Meatballs.[1] She was noted for strong performance as a romantic foil to Bill Murray.[2] However, in her acceptance speech, she communicated the belief that she had won the award more for being a Canadian actor in a popular film, at a time when Canadian films still predominantly cast bigger-name stars from the United States, than for her actual performance.[3]
She was nominated for the same award in 1988 for her role in Taking Care; although she did not win, she told the press that being nominated for that film meant more to her than winning for Meatballs, as by this time the quality of Canadian film had significantly improved and the division of the Genie acting categories into separate awards for Canadian and foreign actors had been discontinued.[4]
Her other film credits include Lie with Me, Soup for One, Def-Con 4, God Bless the Child, and The Guardian, while her television credits include Custard Pie, Anne of Avonlea and guest roles in Adderly, Danger Bay, Seeing Things, Queer as Folk, This Is Wonderland, Lost Girl, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.[5]
As a playwright, her plays include Newcomer, Ten Minute Play: The Musical,[citation needed] The Road to Hell (co-written with Michael Healey),[6] Tales of the Blonde Assassin,[7] and Early August.[8]
As a director, she has directed plays for the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, the Blyth Festival,[9] and Theatre Passe Muraille,[10] including productions of William Shakespeare's Henry V,[citation needed] A Midsummer Night's Dream,[10] Pericles,[11] and Cymbeline, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot,[citation needed] Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears,[12] Noël Coward's Star Chamber,[13] Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues[14] and Michael Healey's The Nuttalls.[9]
She has taught for University of Toronto, the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, George Brown College,[15] and Ryerson University.[16]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1979 | Meatballs | Roxanne | |
| 1979 | Summer's Children | Kathy | |
| 1980 | Nothing Personal | Audrey Seltzer | |
| 1983 | Skullduggery | Janet | |
| 1985 | Def-Con 4 | Jordan | |
| 1987 | Taking Care | Angie | |
| 1989 | Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! | Lyndsay Caputo | |
| 1992 | The Shower | Sheila | |
| 2003 | The Republic of Love | Dr. French | |
| 2003 | Masterpiece Monday | Vivian | Short |
| 2005 | Lie with Me | Marla | |
| 2010 | New Year | Carla Cook | |
| 2011 | The Fair Sex | Kim | Short |
| 2014 | The Box | Woman | Short |
| 2016 | Acting Up | Missy Taylor | Short |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Custard Pie | Sheila Ann Murphy | TV series |
| 1978 | For the Record | Becky | "Cementhead" |
| 1979 | The Littlest Hobo | Susan | "Smoke" |
| 1980 | A Population of One | Marg | |
| 1984 | Seeing Things | Edna | "An Eye on the Future" |
| 1984 | The Guardian | Fran | TV film |
| 1985 | The Edison Twins | Diane Comstock | "Running on Empty" |
| 1985 | Murder in Space | Eleanor | TV film |
| 1985 | Murder: By Reason of Insanity | Eleanor Sterling | TV film |
| 1986 | Reckless Disregard | Lauren Gartner | TV film |
| 1986 | Easy Prey | Fran Altman | TV film |
| 1986 | Murder Sees the Light | Eleanor Sterling | TV film |
| 1986-87 | Danger Bay | Dr. Woodward | "The Ultimate Gift", "Time Out" |
| 1987 | Adderly | Dr. Cook | "Nemesis" |
| 1987 | Anne of Avonlea | Pauline Harris | TV miniseries |
| 1987 | Sadie and Son | Angela Pedroza | TV film |
| 1987 | Night Heat | Sally Koretski | "The Victim" |
| 1987 | Street Legal | Anne Madison | "Gold Rush" |
| 1988 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Alicia Hart | "Gotcha!" |
| 1988 | God Bless the Child | Carrie | TV film |
| 1988 | The Twilight Zone | Claire | "Acts of Terror" |
| 1991 | Maniac Mansion | Erlene | "Brainiac Mansion" |
| 1991 | Road to Avonlea | Theodora Dixon | "It's Just a Stage" |
| 1991 | Counterstrike | Maureen | "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" |
| 1991 | Street Legal | Daria Roberts | "Reasonable Doubt" |
| 1992 | Amy Fisher: My Story | Roseann Fisher | TV film |
| 1993 | E.N.G. | Dr. Claire Shemko | "Pandora's Box" |
| 1993 | X-Rated | Louise Foster | TV film |
| 1994 | Lives of Girls and Women | Greta Storey | TV film |
| 1996 | The Haunting of Lisa | Ann | TV film |
| 2003 | Coast to Coast | Nessle Carroway | TV film |
| 2003 | Doc | Mrs. Stoddard | "Angels in Waiting" |
| 2004 | Open Heart | Violet Wells | TV film |
| 2004 | Fungus the Bogeyman | Septic | TV series |
| 2005 | This Is Wonderland | Barbara Spiddick | "2.3", "2.9" |
| 2008 | Of Murder and Memory | Anna | TV film |
| 2011 | Lost Girl | Baba Yaga | "Mirror, Mirror" |
| 2012 | Degrassi: The Next Generation | Dr. Frank | "Need You Now: Part 2" |
| 2015 | Saving Hope | Dr. Clara Levine | "Beasts of Burden" |
Theatre
[edit]| Year | Title | Company | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Smudge by Alex Bulmer | Nightwood Theatre | [17] |
References
[edit]- ↑ Henighan, Tom (2000). Maclean's companion to Canadian arts and culture. Vancouver: Raincoast Books. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-55192-298-0.
- ↑ Labrecque, Jeff (June 12, 2012). "Bill Murray in 'Meatballs': Ivan Reitman on the film that started it all". EW.com. Archived from the original on 2025-06-09. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ Pendakur, Manjunath (1990). Canadian dreams and American control: the political economy of the Canadian film industry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8143-1999-4.
- ↑ "Genie turns 10" (PDF). Cinema Canada. No. 160. February–March 1989. p. 27.
- ↑ "Kate Lynch". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ↑ Friedlander, Mira (1999-11-15). "The Road to Hell". Variety. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ "File 18 - Blonde Assassins. Kate Lynch". University of Guelph. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ Rumleski, Kathy (August 12, 2011). "Actors take us backstage in Early August". London Free Press. Archived from the original on 2011-08-14.
- 1 2 Loughlin, Shawn (July 5, 2026). "BF26: After 15 years, Kate Lynch is back in the Blyth Festival's director's chair". The Huron Citizen. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- 1 2 Mirrlees, Tanner (June 2002). "Kate Lynch's All-Woman Dream". Canadian Theatre Review. 111: 50–59. doi:10.3138/ctr.111.009. ISSN 0315-0836.
- ↑ Borissenko, Lola (2016-03-07). "Pericles: Prince of Tyre". The Varsity. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ Wegg, S. James (May 28, 2012). "Live Event - French Without Tears (Director: Kate Lynch)". James Wegg Review. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ Hoile, Christopher (2009-07-27). "Review - Star Chamber - Shaw Festival". Stage Door. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
- ↑ Beker, Jeanne (2011). Finding myself in fashion. Toronto: Viking Canada. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-670-06457-1.
- ↑ "Kate Lynch". University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22.
- ↑ "Kate Lynch". The Shoe Project. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Kaplan, Jon (2000-11-16). "Alex Bulmer's groundbreaking Smudge goes inside the mind's eye. Sight unseen". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
External links
[edit]- Kate Lynch at IMDb
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian television actresses
- Canadian stage actresses
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian theatre directors
- Canadian women theatre directors
- Best Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
- Living people
- 1959 births
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers