Character actress Alberta Watson passed away on Saturday due to cancer, her agent has reported. Watson was 60.
Watson began her acting career in Canada with national broadcaster CBC, gaining notice for a key role in the 1978 feature In Praise of Older Women. Watson went on to a variety of roles in movies such as 1981’s Black Mirror and 1983’s The Keep, as well as guest stints on shows such as Kane & Abel.
Watson got her first major television role in Buck James, following that up with guest appearances on shows such as The Equalizer and Street Legal. As the 90s came around, she became a more prominent fixture in television, appearing on shows such as Law & Order and The Outer Limits. Watson also appeared in David O. Russell’s 1994 feature Spanking the Monkey, garnering acclaim for her role of Susan Aibelli. She followed that up with roles in the 1995 feature Hackers,...
Watson began her acting career in Canada with national broadcaster CBC, gaining notice for a key role in the 1978 feature In Praise of Older Women. Watson went on to a variety of roles in movies such as 1981’s Black Mirror and 1983’s The Keep, as well as guest stints on shows such as Kane & Abel.
Watson got her first major television role in Buck James, following that up with guest appearances on shows such as The Equalizer and Street Legal. As the 90s came around, she became a more prominent fixture in television, appearing on shows such as Law & Order and The Outer Limits. Watson also appeared in David O. Russell’s 1994 feature Spanking the Monkey, garnering acclaim for her role of Susan Aibelli. She followed that up with roles in the 1995 feature Hackers,...
- 3/23/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Space is Canada's specialty channel for sci-fi, fantasy and horror entertainment.
Canada’s specialty channel for sci-fi, fantasy and horror, Space, has announced the start of production on a new speculative drama pilot, Borealis, set in an unfrozen Arctic in the near future.
According to Space’s press release, Borealis is set approximately 30 years in the future and focuses on a Deadwood-like frontier town situated in the high Arctic. The proposed follow-up series would ‘explore the political, environmental and social impact of a world in which the polar icecaps have melted and countries are vying for the last vestiges of oil in the Arctic.’
The cast of Borealis includes several faces that may be familiar to fans of other science fiction and fantasy series on Space and elsewhere. They include Ty Olsson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and 2, Battlestar Galactica), who plays Vic, an ultimate fighter turned entrepreneur who...
Canada’s specialty channel for sci-fi, fantasy and horror, Space, has announced the start of production on a new speculative drama pilot, Borealis, set in an unfrozen Arctic in the near future.
According to Space’s press release, Borealis is set approximately 30 years in the future and focuses on a Deadwood-like frontier town situated in the high Arctic. The proposed follow-up series would ‘explore the political, environmental and social impact of a world in which the polar icecaps have melted and countries are vying for the last vestiges of oil in the Arctic.’
The cast of Borealis includes several faces that may be familiar to fans of other science fiction and fantasy series on Space and elsewhere. They include Ty Olsson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and 2, Battlestar Galactica), who plays Vic, an ultimate fighter turned entrepreneur who...
- 10/26/2011
- by Michael Simpson
- CinemaSpy
TORONTO -- Brendan Fletcher, Jessica Pare, Leslie Hope and Alice Krige are on board for the Canadian crime biopic The Nancy Eaton Story, now shooting in Calgary, Alberta. Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti (Trudeau, Chasing Cain), the film centers on the true-life story of the brutal 1985 murder of Nancy Eaton, a department store heiress, by an obsessed family friend. Pare plays the title role, and Fletcher co-stars as the killer. The two-hour telefilm, an official Canadian-British co-production produced by Bernie Zukerman, has already been sold to the CTV network in Canada. It's based on the book "A Question of Guilt: The Murder of Nancy Eaton," by William Scoular and Vivian Green. Executive producer credits go to Wendy Hill-Tout of Calgary's Voice Pictures Inc., Michael Prupas of Montreal's Muse Entertainment Enterprises and Jamie Brown of Britain's Studio Eight Productions Ltd. Shooting on the TV movie is set to wrap Dec. 20.
- 12/4/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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