Sonya Biddle is an actress and politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
She served on the Montreal city council from 1998 to 2001 as a member
of Vision Montreal.Biddle is the daughter of well-known Montreal jazz
bassist Charlie Biddle and the sister of jazz singer Stephanie Biddle.
Her mother, a white francophone woman, was ostracized by other members
of her family in the 1950s for having married a black man.Biddle was a
noted stage actress in Montreal during the 1980s and early 1990s,
appearing in performances of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Irene and Lillian Forever, A Woman
Alone, The Colored Museum, Fool Blast, No Men Beyond This Point, The
Haunting, and Canad-uh?. In 1990, she directed the play, My Mom Was on
the Radio. For a time, she and her partner Allan Patrick were the
leaders and organizers of the Fool House Theatre Corporation, and in
the mid-1990s she was involved in organizing community events,
concerts, and festivals.Biddle has appeared in the films Rebel High
(1987), Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989), Sweet Killing (1993),
and The Bone Collector (1999).
She served on the Montreal city council from 1998 to 2001 as a member
of Vision Montreal.Biddle is the daughter of well-known Montreal jazz
bassist Charlie Biddle and the sister of jazz singer Stephanie Biddle.
Her mother, a white francophone woman, was ostracized by other members
of her family in the 1950s for having married a black man.Biddle was a
noted stage actress in Montreal during the 1980s and early 1990s,
appearing in performances of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Irene and Lillian Forever, A Woman
Alone, The Colored Museum, Fool Blast, No Men Beyond This Point, The
Haunting, and Canad-uh?. In 1990, she directed the play, My Mom Was on
the Radio. For a time, she and her partner Allan Patrick were the
leaders and organizers of the Fool House Theatre Corporation, and in
the mid-1990s she was involved in organizing community events,
concerts, and festivals.Biddle has appeared in the films Rebel High
(1987), Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989), Sweet Killing (1993),
and The Bone Collector (1999).
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