Martha Henry
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| Born | Martha Buhs February 17, 1938 Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Donnelly Rhodes Douglas Rain Rod Beattie |
Martha Henry (born February 17, 1938, Detroit, Michigan) is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival.
She was an early graduate from the National Theatre School in Montreal, and very quickly became a leading actress at the Stratford Festival, appearing in leading roles from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. During these years she won great acclaim in many roles including Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969), Isabella in Measure for Measure (1976), Olga in Three Sisters (1976), and Paulina in The Winter's Tale (1978).
She and a team of three other directors (Urjo Kareda, Pam Brighton, and Peter Moss) were hired to lead Stratford's 1981 season after the resignation of Robin Phillips. The subsequent dismissal of the team a few months later caused a huge national uproar, and caused Henry and several other Stratford veterans to work away from the Festival for several years.[1][2]
She was Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario from 1988 to 1994, and returned to the Stratford stage to play Mary Tyrone in the widely respected 1994 and 1995 production of Long Day's Journey into Night. She won a best actress Genie award for the 1996 film version that followed. [3][4][5]
In February 2007, she was appointed Director of Stratford's Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training.[6]
She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981, and promoted to Companion in 1990.[7]
Notable television roles include the Prime Minister's mother in the Paul Gross miniseries H20 and the owner of the Chateau Rousseau in Ken Finkleman's At the Hotel.
[edit] References
- ^ Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
- ^ Martin Knelman, A Stratford Tempest. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982, 240 p. ISBN 0771045425
- ^ Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
- ^ The Grand Theatre · Information and theatre tickets for The Grand Theatre and other London Ontario plays and presentations
- ^ http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C03E3DE123AF93AA35755C0A962958260
- ^ http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/pdf/NR042007.pdf
- ^ Order of Canada
