Canadian actress Alberta Watson has enjoyed a long
and varied career in television and film.
A native of Toronto, Watson began performing with a local theater group as a
teenager and then moved on to work doing commercials, television, and eventually
feature films. One of her first professional roles came at age 19, when she
played a leading role in the CBC TV movie Honor Thy Father. By 1978, at
the age of 23, she received a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress for
one of her first movie roles, Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older
Women. Afterwards, she moved to the United States, working in both Los
Angeles and New York for several years, but returned to Toronto during the
1990's and has made that city her home ever since.
Although she has appeared in numerous major commercial releases and hit
television shows (such as 2004's The Prince & Me, 1995's
Hackers, the Emmy-nominated HBO movie Gotti, the Oscar-nominated
The Sweet Hereafter, Fox's hit series 24 and the cable TV cult hit
La Femme Nikita), Watson has preferred independent (and especially
Canadian) productions. These have included a starring role in David O. Russell's
controversial 1994 film Spanking the Monkey, for which Watson won much
acclaim, as well as roles in John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry
Inch, Thom Fitzgerald's The Wild Dogs, After the Harvest (with
Sam Shepard, which garnered her a Gemini Award nomination), Deeply (with
Lynn Redgrave), Colleen Murphy's Shoemaker (for which Watson received a
Genie nomination in the Lead Actress category), and Choice: The Henry
Morgentaler Story (for which she was nominated for yet another Gemini
Award). Watson has also done a great deal of work in Canadian television,
including the CBC Chasing Cain movie series and, more recently,
Showcase's comedy series Show Me Yours.
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