Anne Anglin (born 1942) is a Canadian actress and theatre director.[1] She is most noted for her performance as Sharon in the 1986 television film Turning to Stone, for which she was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series at the 1st Gemini Awards,[2] and her recurring role as Mrs. Cooney, the grandmother of J.T. Yorke, in .
Her other film and television credits have included the films Ada, Scanners, Butterbox Babies and House, and appearances in the television series King of Kensington, Seeing Things, , Train 48 and This Is Wonderland.
Most prominently a stage actress, her roles have included productions of Judith Merril's Headspace,[3] Erika Ritter's Winter 1671,[4] David Fennario's Balconville,[5] William Shakespeare's Macbeth,[6] Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land,[7] Sally Clark's Lost Souls and Missing Persons,[8] Layne Coleman's Blue City Slammers,[9] James W. Nichol's stage adaptation of Margaret Laurence's novel The Stone Angel[1] and Michel Tremblay's Counter Service.[10]
She won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best female performance, midsized theatre division in 1993 for The Stone Angel.[11] She was nominated for best female performance in a featured role in 1986 for Blue City Slammers,[12] and best female performance, midsized theatre in 1995 for Counter Service.[13]
Her father was magazine journalist and editor Gerald Anglin.[14]
She is married to playwright Paul Thompson,[15] and is the mother of theatre director Severn Thompson.[16]