Background
Reid was born in Whitstable, Kent, England. Her father was a doctor in the British Army.
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Fiona Reid
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She studied acting at McGill University receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Career
She is best known for her role as Cathy on the television series King of Kensington. She lived in Germany, Africa and the United States before settling in Canada with her family in 1964. Her first professional acting job was a school tour with the Globe Theatre in Saskatchewan.
She appeared for three seasons as Cathy on the King of Kensington and was nominated in 1977 for an ACTRA Award for Best Performance in a Continuing Role in a Television Program.
She left after expressing a desire to return to the stage. She has been a mainstay on the stage at the Shaw and Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Reid voiced Mistress Jenkins in the animated series Timothy Goes to School.
In 2009, she starred as Sister Aloysius in Doubt, a Parable at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2011, she starred as Violet in August: Osage County at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.
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English
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Member of the Order of Canada; Dora Mavor Moore Award Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.