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Burns, Martha

Ontario -based actor and founder of Way to Go, an organization which connects young people to the arts in Toronto.

Apart from her success in television and film, Ms Burns has played several leading roles in theatre including two for which she won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Actress [sic]: in 1984 as Tanzi in Trafford Tanzi (a National Arts Centre production) and in 1986 for Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (Young People's Theatre). She has also performed at Citadel Theatre , Tarragon , at the Shaw Festival and Vancouver Playhouse .

At the Stratford Festival she has played in King Lear (Regan), Sweet Bird of Youth (Heavenly), Long Day's Journey into Night (Cathleen; she also recreated the performance for the film version of the production), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxanne), Cymbeline (Imogen) and The Winter's Tale (Perdita), among others.

More recently, she appeared in The Memory of Water at the Winter Garden Theatre, February, 2000 and in Soulpepper 's productions of Present Laughter and La Ronde (both in 2001).

She is married to actor Paul Gross and they have two children.

(Information provided by Lindy Cooksey; additional information provided by Joel Greenberg, Christopher Hoile and Pierre Karch)

Last updated 2006-10-25