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Galloway, Pat

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Pat Galloway

Actor born in London, England in 1933, became one of the Stratford Festival's leading performers.

Pat Galloway trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1957 emigrated to Montreal, where she worked in French radio and television. In 1958, she toured in Canada and the United States with the Canadian Players. During the 1960s, she was a favourite of director Jean Gascon, playing in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), Coriolanus (1961), and the maid Dorine in Tartuffe (1968). She starred with Gascon in the pants role of Lorenzaccio and played the leads in The Duchess of Malfi (1971) and The Taming of The Shrew (1973), all at Stratford and on tour. She excelled in the brilliant 1976 John Hirsch production of Three Sisters at Stratford, in World of Wonders, and Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, là, bonjour. She played the role of Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest in 1975 and 1976, and of Lady Bracknell in 1993.

Pat Galloway also played in the Shaw Festival productions of Man and Superman, Misalliance and The Apple Cart in 1966, and in Dear Liar.

She appeared in the CBC's historical mini-series The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway as the Prime Minister's wife Agnes Macdonald.

Her performances were marked by a magnificent voice and a highly theatrical presence.

Viewings: The Players, directed by Donald Britten, NFB, 1974, about Stratford's tour to Australia with The Imaginary Invalid.

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Last updated 2020-12-14