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Dunsmore, Rosemary

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Rosemary Dunsmore in the February, 2001 Centaur Theatre production of Wit

Ontario -based actor/director, born in 1953, who has appeared in theatre across the country and around the world, including in England, Scotland, Holland and the US.

In this country, she has played, among many others, at Centaur Theatre (Wit, February, 2001 - a performance unanimously well-received and which won her the Masque Award for best actress - she became the first anglophone to have won in the leading actor category) and the Saidye Bronfman Centre (Single) and performed in the national tour of Ten Lost Years (1975). Among the premieres in which she has performed is Tom Walmsley 's Something Red .

She has directed at the Atlantic Theatre Festival (Hedda Gabler), at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Mantiba Theatre Centre (Misery, Skylight) and for Equity Showcase, where she also teaches. She also teaches at the University of Toronto and at the Canadian Film Centre.

She is probably best known for her television work, notably in the CBC series, The Road to Avonlea.

She has said of acting and directing, "Directing is a job fraught with compromise. You're responsible for everything and in control of nothing. But when you're acting, you're in control of your performance."

Sources: "A Drama Queen" by Randall King, Winnipeg Sun, February 11, 2000

Last updated 2009-03-30