Education
McIntosh attended the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, in which she trained for acting in theatrical productions.
McIntosh attended the University of Toronto and the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, in which she trained for acting in theatrical productions.
Foreign a time she taught students of theatre at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec and at Toronto, Ontario"s Humber College. Yanna McIntosh"s theatre credits include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Mary in Friedrich Schiller"s Mary Stuart, and Condoleezza Rice in David Hare"s Stuff Happens. McIntosh"s most notable recurring roles in television series include Doctor Currie in the short-lived 90"s medical drama Side Effects, Jenni Hernandez in Riverdale, Edna Myles in The Eleventh Hour, Doctor Rollins in Blue Murder, Zona Robinson in This is Wonderland, and Mississippi
Dymond in the Canadian teen drama The Best Years.
She has starred in a number of made-for-television movies, such as Atomic Train (1999), in which she played Christina Roselli, Strange Justice (1999), in which she played Jeanette, Deliberate Intent (2000), in which she played Elaine, Crown Heights (2004), Chasing Freedom (2004), in which she played Ruth, Reversible Errors (2004), in which she played Genevieve Carriere, Doomstown (2006), in which she played Pat Barrows, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006), in which she played Doctor Crone, They Come Back (2007), in which she played Naketha, and Matters of Life and Dating (2007). Some of her appearances in movies and direct-to-video films include Nicole in Spooky House (2000), Penny Mills in Full Disclosure (2001), Teddy Vargas in The Sentinel (2006), and Diana in Finn"s Girl (2007).
Other roles include Down in the Delta (1998), John Q (2002), and Heaven on Earth (2008). In 2011 McIntosh played the starring role of Mama Nadi in Lynn Nottage"s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, produced by Obsidian Theatre and Nightwood Theatre.
In 2014, she played Cleopatra in a Stratford Festival production of William Shakespeare"s Antony and Cleopatra.
In his 2007 article on Yanna McIntosh"s role as Mary Stuart in the Friedrich Schiller play of the same name, chief theatre critic Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star described McIntosh as capable of good performances on difficult stage roles, titling his article "Number role too bold for Mary Stuart star". In his later review of the play, Ouzounian, who rated the play with two stars out of four, stated that McIntosh"s role as Stuart and Nancy Palk"s role as Elizabeth I of England were among the few highlights he saw in the play.