Linda Griffiths
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Linda Griffiths (born 7 October 1956) is a Canadian actor and playwright.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School, and McGill University.
She was the recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for her 1980 one-woman play Maggie and Pierre, in which she played both Margaret Sinclair and Pierre Trudeau. Grifffiths has been most closely associated with Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille.
Primarily a stage actor, she has also done some television and film work, including episodes of the TV series Friday the 13th, Street Legal, Katts and Dog, Beyond Reality, Due South, Traders and Twice in a Lifetime. She had the starring role in Lianna (1983).
Sheer Nerve, a collection of seven of her plays, was published in 1999.
[edit] Works
- Maggie and Pierre (1980; with Paul Thompson)
- OD in Paradise (1983)
- Jessica (1984)
- The Darling Family (1991)
- A Game of Inches (1991)
- Brother André's Heart (1992)
- Spiral Women and the Dirty Theatre (1993)
- The Duchess (1998)
- Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen (1999)
Interne Movie Database's Page on Linda Griffiths: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341710/
