Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian actor, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.
Biography In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for Meatballs. She was noted for strong performance as a romantic foil to Bill Murray. However, in her acceptance speech, she communicated the belief that she had won the award more for being a Canadian actor in a popular film, at a time when Canadian films still predominantly cast bigger-name stars from the United States, than for her actual performance.
She was nominated for the same award in 1988 for her role in Taking Care; although she did not win, she told the press that being nominated for that film meant more to her than winning for Meatballs, as by this time the quality of Canadian film had significantly improved and the division of the Genie acting categories into separate awards for Canadian and foreign actors had been discontinued.
Her other film credits include Lie with Me, Soup for One, Def-Con 4, God Bless the Child, and The Guardian, while her television credits include Custard Pie, Anne of Avonlea and guest roles in Adderly, Danger Bay, Seeing Things, Queer as Folk, This Is Wonderland, Lost Girl, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.
As a playwright, her plays include Newcomer, Ten Minute Play: The Musical, The Road to Hell (co-written with Michael Healey), Tales of the Blonde Assassin, and Early August.
As a director, she has directed plays for the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, the Blyth Festival, and Theatre Passe Muraille, including productions of William Shakespeare's Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, and Cymbeline, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, Noël Coward's Star Chamber, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and Michael Healey's The Nuttalls.
She has taught for University of Toronto, the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, George Brown College, and Ryerson University.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes1979MeatballsRoxanne1979Summer's ChildrenKathy1980Nothing PersonalAudrey Seltzer1983SkullduggeryJanet1985Def-Con 4Jordan1987Taking CareAngie1989Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!Lyndsay Caputo1992Sheila2003Dr. French2003Masterpiece MondayVivianShort2005Lie with MeMarla2010New YearCarla Cook2011KimShort2014WomanShort2016Acting UpMissy TaylorShort
Television Year Title Role Notes1977Custard PieSheila Ann MurphyTV series1978For the RecordBecky"Cementhead"1979Susan"Smoke"1980 A Population of OneMarg1984Seeing ThingsEdna"An Eye on the Future"1984 The GuardianFranTV film1985Diane Comstock"Running on Empty"1985Murder in SpaceEleanorTV film1985Eleanor SterlingTV film1986Reckless DisregardLauren GartnerTV film1986Easy PreyFran AltmanTV film1986Murder Sees the LightEleanor SterlingTV film1986-87Danger BayDr. Woodward"The Ultimate Gift", "Time Out"1987AdderlyDr. Cook"Nemesis"1987Anne of AvonleaPauline HarrisTV miniseries1987Sadie and SonAngela PedrozaTV film1987Night HeatSally Koretski"The Victim"1987Street LegalAnne Madison"Gold Rush"1988Alicia Hart"Gotcha!"1988God Bless the ChildCarrieTV film1988Claire"Acts of Terror"1991Maniac MansionErlene"Brainiac Mansion"1991Road to AvonleaTheodora Dixon"It's Just a Stage"1991CounterstrikeMaureen "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"1991Street LegalDaria Roberts"Reasonable Doubt"1992Amy Fisher: My StoryRoseann FisherTV film1993E.N.G.Dr. Claire Shemko"Pandora's Box"1993X-RatedLouise FosterTV film1994Lives of Girls and WomenGreta StoreyTV film1996AnnTV film2003Coast to CoastNessle CarrowayTV film2003DocMrs. Stoddard"Angels in Waiting"2004Open HeartViolet WellsTV film2004Fungus the BogeymanSepticTV series2005This Is WonderlandBarbara Spiddick"2.3", "2.9"2008Of Murder and MemoryAnnaTV film2011Lost GirlBaba Yaga"Mirror, Mirror"2012Degrassi: The Next GenerationDr. Frank"Need You Now: Part 2"2015Saving HopeDr. Clara Levine"Beasts of Burden"
Theatre Year TitleCompany Role Ref.2000Smudge by Alex BulmerNightwood Theatre
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