Lenore Zann

Lenore Zann (born November 22, 1959) is a Canadian actress and politician. She represented Truro-Bible Hill district in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2009 until 2019 as a New Democrat, and then represented Cumberland—Colchester in the Canadian House of Commons from 2019 to 2021 as a Liberal. As an actress, Zann is known for providing the voice of Rogue in various X-Men series and games.

Life and career Zann was born on November 22, 1959, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of Janice, a high school teacher, and Paul Zann, a professor. Her great-grandfather, named Zaninovich (Zaninović), came to Australia from Croatia.

She emigrated with her parents to Canada in 1968, first to Regina, Saskatchewan, then to Truro, Nova Scotia, and later graduated from Cobequid Educational Centre, a high school in Truro, which was noted for its student musical productions. She attended York University in Toronto where she studied drama, fine arts and political science.

Zann worked as a screen, television, stage, and voice actress, and appeared in numerous television shows, films, radio, and animated series. As an actor, she is best known for providing the voice of Rogue in X-Men: The Animated Series (1992-1997), as well as the video games X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1996), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (1998), and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000). Zann reprised the role in X-Men '97, the Disney+ revival of The Animated Series.

After living in Halifax, Toronto, London, Stockholm, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and New York City, Zann returned to Truro in 2008.

In 2008 she started a community campaign to restore a historic former academic building in downtown Truro, Provincial Normal College, into a cultural centre. She raised $62,000 for a feasibility study following which the four-story, 24,000-square-foot provincially designated Victorian brick building was repurposed to become the centre point of downtown Truro – the town's new Central Colchester Regional Library, with a skating rink in front during winter months.

Political career

Provincial politics She represented Truro-Bible Hill district in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2009 until 2019 as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party and from June 9, 2019, until September 12, 2019, as an independent.

On April 8, 2009, Zann won the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Truro-Bible Hill in anticipation of the 2009 provincial election. On the same day, an employee of the Liberal Party leaked a topless photo of her to the media from her appearance in The L Word. Zann was elected in the 2009 provincial election. and served as the ministerial assistant for the Department of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage.

During her first four years as a backbencher in the first NDP government in Nova Scotia, Zann was appointed ministerial assistant for three positions: culture & heritage, environment & climate change, and deputy premier – unsuccessfully working to reinstate the Nova Scotia Arts Council and improve the film tax credit for the film and TV industry.

As a first-time opposition member, Zann has been NDP spokesperson for education, environment, status of women, Human Rights Commission, Aboriginal affairs & truth & reconciliation, agriculture, advanced education, African NS affairs, and Gaelic affairs.

During her ten years as MLA, she introduced two successful bills. Bill 90 amended the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition Commission Act to increase the size of the board of directors to ten. Bill 74 changed the name of the new electoral district of Truro–Bible Hill to Truro–Bible Hill–Millbrook–Salmon River.

She was subsequently re-elected in the 2013 provincial election to represent the reconfigured electoral district, now called Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River.

In that election, the NDP was reduced to seven seats in the legislature and third-party status. Zann served as the NDP critic for Aboriginal affairs, community culture and heritage, community services, education, Human Rights Commission / status of women, and seniors and disabled.

Zann introduced bill 111, the Environmental Racism Prevention Act, addressing the issue of environmental racism in Nova Scotia. The bill was not considered by the house.

On June 12, 2015, Zann announced her bid for the leadership of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. On February 27, 2016, Zann was defeated in her leadership bid, losing to Gary Burrill on the second ballot.

She sat as an independent member in Nova Scotia's legislature as she sought the nomination for the 2019 federal election.

Federal politics She served as a Liberal in the 43rd Canadian Parliament, after winning the Cumberland—Colchester seat in the 2019 federal election.

On June 9, 2019, Zann announced she would seek the Liberal nomination to succeed retiring Liberal MP Bill Casey in Cumberland—Colchester for the 2019 federal election. She chose to leave the NDP for the Liberals because she believed the Liberals stood a better chance of winning. She sat as an independent member in Nova Scotia's legislature as she sought the nomination. Zann won the federal Liberal nomination on July 27, 2019, defeating three other candidates including Casey's constituency assistant.

She resigned her provincial seat on September 12.

She was elected to serve as the Cumberland-Colchester MP in October 2019.

She introduced one private member bill, Bill C-230, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to redress environmental racism which sought to require the Minister of the Environment to develop a national strategy that would examine the link between race, socio-economic status and environmental risk. It was brought to a vote on March 24, 2021, and advanced to committee stage with Liberal, NDP and Green Party members voting in favour. However, the Parliament ended before the bill was brought up for a third reading.

In the 2021 federal election Zann lost her seat to Conservative candidate Stephen Ellis.

Electoral record Federal

Provincial

Filmography

Film (live-action) Year Film Role Notes 1980 Hounds of Notre Dame Lila Petrie 1981 Happy Birthday to Me Maggie 1981 Black Mirror Julie 1982 Visiting Hours Lisa 1982 Murder by Phone Connie Lawson 1983 American Nightmare Tina 1984 That's My Baby! Sally 1985 Def-Con 4 J.J. 1985 Return Susan 1986 One Night Only Anne McGraw 1987 Prettykill Carrie 1987 The Girl Viveka 1988 Something About Love Sylvia 1989 The Amityville Curse Unknown Direct-to-video 1990 Back Stab Unknown 1993 Change of Heart Carmen 1994 Boozecan Sunny 1994 Cold Sweat Ghost 1995 Johnston... Johnston Queen Bee Short film 1996 Natural Enemy Gina Knox Direct-to-video 1998 Babyface Margaret 2007 Dirty Laundry Linda Short film 2008 Favorite Son Unknown 2010 Trigger Beebee 2014 Becoming Marilyn! Herself Documentary 2020 Stage Mother Bevette

Film (animated) Year Title Role Note 1991 Tooth Fairy, Where Are You? Dottie Television film A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. 1999 Makai Tenshô: The Armageddon Queen Kasuga 2003 Rescue Heroes: The Movie Wendy Waters 2005 My Little Pony: Friends are Never Far Away Star Catcher Direct-to-video 2005 My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas Short film 2012 Bratz: Desert Jewelz Alia

Television (live action) Year Title Role Notes 1982 Something's Afoot Hope Television film 1986 Mania: The Intruder Julie Somers Television film 1989 Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop Unknown Episode: "Jail Bait" 1989 Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher Lynne Television film 1989 Last Train Home Lily Manse Television film 1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story Unknown Television film 1991 Conspiracy of Silence Soap Actress #1 Miniseries 1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story Betty Television film 1992 Beyond Reality Diane Episode: "Theatre of the Absurd" 1993 Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer Diane Delana Television film 1993 The Hidden Room Amy Episode: "Transfigured Night" 1990–1993 Street Legal Nina Pascaras / Jean Rhomer Recurring role; 8 episodes 1994 RoboCop Willa Episode: "Sisters in Crime" 1994 Forever Knight Amber Episode: "Capital Offence" 1995 Rent-a-Kid Elaine Loman Television film 1996 Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice Angie Television film 1996 Millennium Ruthie Bangs Episode: "The Well-Worn Lock" 1997 Police Academy: The Series Bonnie Episode: "Shopping with the Enemy" 1999 Lexx The Dark Lady Episode: "Woz" 1999 Pit Pony L.B. Collins Episode: "Famous" 2000 Personally Yours Josie TV movie 2001 Cold Squad Laurie Peters Episode: "The Box" 2001 Mysterious Ways Beverly Wilcox Episode: "A Time to Every Purpose" 2003 Andromeda Senator Bayliss Episode: "The Risk-All Point" 2004 Law & Order Tina Episode: "Veteran's Day" 2004 Kingdom Hospital Harriet 2 episodes 2004 The Chris Isaak Show Sharon Nesbick Episode: "Suspicion" 2006 'Til Death Do Us Part Nancy Seaman Episode: "Pilot" 2007 Love Notes Merry Television film 2008 The L Word Jackie Episode: "Look Out, Here They Come!"

Television (animated) Year Title Role Notes 1992–1997 X-Men: The Animated Series Rogue Main role; 68 episodes 1993 Stunt Dawgs Sizzle 1993–1994 Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Mikla Main role; 13 episodes 1995 Spider-Man: The Animated Series Rogue 2 episodes 1996 Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad Unknown Credited as Lenore Zahn 1998 Salty's Lighthouse Aurora / Sunshine / Little Ditcher 1998 Mythic Warriors Persephone Episode: "Persephone and the Winter Seeds" 1999 Arc the Lad Announcer / Kids 1999–2000 Avengers: United They Stand Tigra Main role; 13 episodes 1999–2002 Rescue Heroes Wendy Waters Main role; 32 episodes 1999 Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure Alice Sharome Recurring role 1999 Magic Knight Rayearth Caldina Recurring role; English dub 2000 Gate Keepers Satoko Takanashi 2000 Dinozaurs Dino Ptera Recurring role 2000 Capertown Cops Unknown Recurring role; credited as Lenore Zahn 2000 Turtle Island Ingrid and Wormy 2001 Outlaw Star Aisha Clan-Clan English dub 2001 Mobile Suit Gundam Crowley Hamon English dub 2001 Alienators: Evolution Continues Additional Voices 2001–2002 Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action! Renee La Rouge Recurring role; 6 episodes 2001–2005 Dragon Tales Lorca, Quanita and Isabella 12 episodes 2003–2004 MegaMan: NT Warrior Roll Recurring role 2003 The Mummy Anck Su Namun 4 episodes 2003 Totally Spies Ariel 2004–2006 Dragon Booster Kitt Wonn, Spynn Recurring role; 39 episodes 2006–2008 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Chikara Shisho Recurring role; 10 episodes 2007 Serial Experiments Lain Reika 2007–2009 Storm Hawks Master Cyclonis, Oracle, Lark, Statue, Marge Recurring role; 8 episodes 2008–2011 Animal Mechanicals Island Owl Recurring role; 73 episodes 2009–2011 WordWorld Bear, Kangaroo, and Tiger (Season 1) Main role 2024–present X-Men '97 Rogue Main role; 13 episodes

Video games

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