Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright,[1] currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival.[2]
Kate Hennig | |
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Born | 1961 or 1962 (age 61–62) Harlow, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Playwright and actress |
Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Spouse |
Ian Prinsloo (divorced) |
Website | |
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Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out.[3]
In 2002, Hennig was awarded a master's degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.[4]
She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for The Danish Play,[5] and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for Billy Elliot.[6] Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,[7] and has appeared in the films Mrs. Winterbourne and The Claim, and the television series Bomb Girls, Saving Hope and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
As a playwright, she has written the plays The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, and Mother's Daughter.[8] She was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards[9] and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Virgin Trial.[10]
In 2019, Hennig directed Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival.[11]
Hennig married and later divorced Ian Prinsloo. She moved back Toronto from Calgary in 2001, after her run as Sally Bowles in Cabaret ended.[3]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | Chambermaid | |
1996 | Mrs. Winterbourne | Sophie | |
2000 | The Claim | Vauneen |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1988 | The Taming of the Shrew | Widow | TV film |
1989 | The Comedy of Errors | Luce | TV film |
1994 | The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story | Nurse | TV film |
1995 | Heritage Minutes | Mrs. Chmiliar | Episode: "Myrnam Hospital" |
1996 | Lives of Girls & Women | Fern Doherty | TV film |
1996 | Losing Chase | Katherine | TV film |
1996 | Talk to Me | Stacy | TV film |
1997 | When Secrets Kill | Mary Martin | TV film |
1998 | Goosebumps | Crystal's Mom | Episodes: "Cry of the Cat: Parts 1 & 2" |
1999 | Murder in a Small Town | Mary | TV film |
2000 | A Taste of Shakespeare | Puck | Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
2003 | Jasper, Texas | White Mother | TV film |
2009 | Flashpoint | Brenda | Episode: "Remote Control" |
2012–2013 | Bomb Girls | Adele Witham | Recurring role |
2015 | Saving Hope | Margot Kay | Episode: "All Down the Line" |
2016 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables | Rachel Lynde | TV film |
2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars | Rachel Lynde | TV film |
2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew | Rachel Lynde | TV film |
Year | Title | Role(s) | Company/Theatre | Notes | Ref. |
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1988 | Taming of the Shrew | Widow | Stratford Festival | ||
1991 | Carousel | Mrs. Mullins | Stratford Festival | ||
1991 | Hamlet | Player Queen | Stratford Festival | ||
1993 | Ratbag | Stratford Festival | Dora Award-winning performance | [3] | |
2001 | Cabaret | Sally Bowles | Theatre Calgary | [3] | |
2003 | The Danish Play | Agnete Ottosen | Nightwood Theatre | Dora Award-winning performance | [5] |
2003 | Last Romantics | Necessary Angel | [12] | ||
2003 | The Good Life | Necessary Angel | Staged reading | [13] | |
2007 | The Penelopiad | National Arts Centre | |||
2007 | White Christmas | Martha Watson | Sony Centre | [14] | |
2008 | Anyone Can Whistle | [15] | |||
2008 | Blue Note | Nightswimming | [16] | ||
2009 | Billy Elliot | Mrs. Wilkinson | Broadway | [3] | |
2011 | Billy Elliot | Mrs. Wilkinson | Mirvish Productions | Dora Award-winning performance[17] | [18] |
2012 | A Man and Some Women | Rose | Shaw Festival | [19] | |
2013 | Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | Stratford Festival | ||
2013 | Fiddler on the Roof | Golde | Stratford Festival | [20] | |
2014 | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur | Bodey | Shaw Festival | [21] | |
2014 | Rifles | Señora Carrar | Praxis/Next Stage | [22] | |
2015 | Little Death | Claire | Koffler Centre/Why Not Theatre/Riser Project | [23] | |
2016 | Breath of Kings | Mistress Quickly and Gower | Stratford Festival | [24] | |
2016 | Hedda Gabler | Julia | [25] | ||
2017 | The Audience | Margaret Thatcher | Mirvish/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre | [26] | |
2019 | A Doll's House, Part 2 | Anne-Marie | Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre | [27] | |
2022 | The Importance of Being Ernest | Lady Bracknell | Shaw Festival | [28] | |
2022 | Gaslight (adapted from Angel Street) | Elizabeth | Stratford Festival | [29] | |
2023 | Gypsy | Momma Rose | Shaw Festival | [30] |