Karen Robinson (born February 28, 1968) is a Canadian film, television
and stage actress,[1] who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best
Performance in a Guest Role in a Drama Series at the 7th Canadian
Screen Awards in 2019 for her appearance on the television series Mary
Kills People.[2]Born in London, England and raised in Jamaica,
Robinson moved to Drumheller, Alberta with her family as a
teenager.[1] She was active in the arts in childhood, including
singing in choirs, acting in school plays and reciting at poetry
readings, and studied communication and theatre at Mount Royal College
in Calgary before beginning to work as a professional actress in the
early 1990s.[3]On stage, she originated the role of Marie-Joseph
Angélique in Lorena Gale's play Angélique in 1998,[4] for which she
received a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Actress in
1998.[5] In 2002, she originated the role of Lily in the Stratford
Festival production of Timothy Findley's play Shadows;[6] the
following year, she played Clytemnestra in three concurrent plays,
Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Jean Giraudoux's Electra and Jean-Paul Sartre's
The Flies.[1] In 2006, she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award
nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role
in a Play (Large Theatre) for her performance in Trevor Rhone's Two
Can Play.[7]In 2009, she played Prospera in a gender-flipped Dream in
High Park production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest,[8] and won
the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a
Play for her performance as Mrs. Muller in the Citadel Theatre
production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.[9]
and stage actress,[1] who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best
Performance in a Guest Role in a Drama Series at the 7th Canadian
Screen Awards in 2019 for her appearance on the television series Mary
Kills People.[2]Born in London, England and raised in Jamaica,
Robinson moved to Drumheller, Alberta with her family as a
teenager.[1] She was active in the arts in childhood, including
singing in choirs, acting in school plays and reciting at poetry
readings, and studied communication and theatre at Mount Royal College
in Calgary before beginning to work as a professional actress in the
early 1990s.[3]On stage, she originated the role of Marie-Joseph
Angélique in Lorena Gale's play Angélique in 1998,[4] for which she
received a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Actress in
1998.[5] In 2002, she originated the role of Lily in the Stratford
Festival production of Timothy Findley's play Shadows;[6] the
following year, she played Clytemnestra in three concurrent plays,
Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Jean Giraudoux's Electra and Jean-Paul Sartre's
The Flies.[1] In 2006, she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award
nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role
in a Play (Large Theatre) for her performance in Trevor Rhone's Two
Can Play.[7]In 2009, she played Prospera in a gender-flipped Dream in
High Park production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest,[8] and won
the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a
Play for her performance as Mrs. Muller in the Citadel Theatre
production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.[9]
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