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Kate Lynch
Kate Lynch
Born	June 29, 1959 (age 65)
Nationality	Canadian
Occupations	Actress; theatre director; playwright; drama teacher;

Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.

Biography

In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for Meatballs.^[1] She was notably adept at improvisation against the formidable Bill Murray, with director Ivan Reitman commenting,

I ... chose her because I felt she could perform the strength that was required. And she was attractive without being overly beautiful, and I thought in a strange way that was going to be good. If you look at my other films with Bill, I'm really proud of the male/female pairings. They're always with very strong women. Kate was very strong in Meatballs. Certainly P.J. Soles stands up to him in a different way in Stripes. And certainly Sigourney Weaver in the two Ghostbuster films. But you still feel the romance in each one of those.^[2]

In her acceptance speech, however, she communicated the belief that she had won the award more for the fact of being a Canadian actress in a popular hit film, at a time when Canadian films still predominantly cast bigger-name stars from the United States, than for her actual performance.^[3] She was nominated for the same award in 1988 for her role in Taking Care; although she did not win on that occasion, she told the press that being nominated for that film meant more to her than winning for Meatballs, as by this time the quality of Canadian film had significantly improved and the controversial division of the Genie acting categories into separate awards for Canadian and foreign actors had been discontinued.^[4]

Her other film credits include Lie with Me, Soup for One, Def-Con 4, God Bless the Child and The Guardian, while her television credits include Custard Pie, Anne of Avonlea and guest roles in Adderly, Danger Bay, Seeing Things, Queer as Folk, This Is Wonderland, Lost Girl and Degrassi.^[5]

As a playwright, her plays include Newcomer, Ten Minute Play: The Musical, The Road to Hell (cowritten with Michael Healey), Tales of the Blonde Assassin and Early August.^[6]

As a director, she has directed plays for the Shaw Festival, the Blyth Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille, including productions of William Shakespeare's Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles and Cymbeline, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, Noël Coward's Star Chamber, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues^[7] and Michael Healey's The Nuttalls. She has taught for University College Drama Program, the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, George Brown College^[8] and Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Meatballs	Roxanne
1979	Summer's Children	Kathy
1980	Nothing Personal	Audrey Seltzer
1983	Skullduggery	Janet
1985	Def-Con 4	Jordan
1987	Taking Care	Angie
1989	Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!	Lyndsay Caputo
1992	The Shower	Sheila
2003	The Republic of Love	Dr. French
2003	Masterpiece Monday	Vivian	Short
2005	Lie with Me	Marla
2010	New Year	Carla Cook
2011	The Fair Sex	Kim	Short
2014	The Box	Woman	Short
2016	Acting Up	Missy Taylor	Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Custard Pie	Sheila Ann Murphy	TV series
1978	For the Record	Becky	"Cementhead"
1979	The Littlest Hobo	Susan	"Smoke"
1980	A Population of One	Marg
1984	Seeing Things	Edna	"An Eye on the Future"
1984	The Guardian	Fran	TV film
1985	The Edison Twins	Diane Comstock	"Running on Empty"
1985	Murder in Space	Eleanor	TV film
1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity [es]	Eleanor Sterling	TV film
1986	Reckless Disregard	Lauren Gartner	TV film
1986	Easy Prey	Fran Altman	TV film
1986	Murder Sees the Light	Eleanor Sterling	TV film
1986-87	Danger Bay	Dr. Woodward	"The Ultimate Gift", "Time Out"
1987	Adderly	Dr. Cook	"Nemesis"
1987	Anne of Avonlea	Pauline Harris	TV miniseries
1987	Sadie and Son	Angela Pedroza	TV film
1987	Night Heat	Sally Koretski	"The Victim"
1987	Street Legal	Anne Madison	"Gold Rush"
1988	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Alicia Hart	"Gotcha!"
1988	God Bless the Child	Carrie	TV film
1988	The Twilight Zone	Claire	"Acts of Terror"
1991	Maniac Mansion	Erlene	"Brainiac Mansion"
1991	Road to Avonlea	Theodora Dixon	"It's Just a Stage"
1991	Counterstrike	Maureen	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon"
1991	Street Legal	Daria Roberts	"Reasonable Doubt"
1992	Amy Fisher: My Story	Roseann Fisher	TV film
1993	E.N.G.	Dr. Claire Shemko	"Pandora's Box"
1993	X-Rated	Louise Foster	TV film
1994	Lives of Girls and Women	Greta Storey	TV film
1996	The Haunting of Lisa	Ann	TV film
2003	Coast to Coast	Nessle Carroway	TV film
2003	Doc	Mrs. Stoddard	"Angels in Waiting"
2004	Open Heart	Violet Wells	TV film
2004	Fungus the Bogeyman	Septic	TV series
2005	This Is Wonderland	Barbara Spiddick	"2.3", "2.9"
2008	Of Murder and Memory	Anna	TV film
2011	Lost Girl	Baba Yaga	"Mirror, Mirror"
2012	Degrassi: The Next Generation	Dr. Frank	"Need You Now: Part 2"
2015	Saving Hope	Dr. Clara Levine	"Beasts of Burden"

Theatre

Year	Title	Company	Role	Ref.
2000	Smudge by Alex Bulmer	Nightwood Theatre		^[9]

References

^ Tom Henighan, The Maclean's Companion to Arts and Culture. Raincoast Books, 2000; ISBN 978-1551922980.
^ Labrecque, Jeff (12 June 2012). "Bill Murray in 'Meatballs': Ivan Reitman on the film that started it all". Entertainment. Meredith Corporation.
^ Manjunath Pendakur, Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry. Wayne State University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0814319994. p. 192.
^ "What has winning a Genie meant to you?" Cinema Canada, February/March 1989. p. 27.
^ "Kate Lynch". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
^ "Actors take us backstage in Early August", London Free Press, August 12, 2011.
^ Jeanne Beker, Finding Myself in Fashion. Viking Canada, 2011. ISBN 978-0670064571.
^ "Kate Lynch". Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies. 2018-06-08. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
^ Kaplan, Jon (2000-11-16). "Alex Bulmer's groundbreaking Smudge goes inside the mind's eye. Sight unseen". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-11.