Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal as the staunch yet civilized Princess Elosha on the sitcom "Battlestar Galactica". Upon attaining her degree in theatrical arts from Concordia University, she began her career as a leading lady on the stage in stock companies. Upon being befriended by actress Dinah Manoff while attending a seminar at the Actors Studio, she was given an arranged interview with director Jean-Claude Lord. Impressed by her intellect, professionalism, and dry sense of humor, upon taking notice of her potential he arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "Visiting Hours" (1982). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 130 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, grandmothers, relatives, old maids, matriarchs, nurses, secretaries, literary or historical figures, housekeepers, educators, authority figures, clergywomen, landladies, neighbors, curmudgeons, eccentrics, lawyers, judges, white-collared workers, retail clerks, saleswomen, businesswomen, beauticians, waitresses, con-artists, patients, administrators, therapists, managers, and librarians. She appeared in such feature films as "The Hotel New Hampshire" (1984), "Wild Things" (1987), "Cousins" (1989), "Farther West" (1992), "Ernest Goes to School" (1994), "Maternal Instincts" (1996), "Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan" (1997), "American Dragons" (1998), "Snow Day" (2000), "Freddy Got Fingered" (2001), "Halloween: Resurrection" (2002), "Agent Cody Banks" (2003), "The Butterfly Effect" (2004), "Bob the Butler" (2005), "Slither" (2006), "Things We Lost in the Fire" (2007), and "Another Cinderella Story" (2008). On television, she appeared in numerous guest spots on such syndicated shows as "CBS Summer Playhouse," "The Beachcombers," "Neon Rider," "21 Jump Street," "The Commish," "Highlander," "Birdland," "Echo," "Millenium," "The X-Files," "The Sentinel," "First Wave" "The Outer Limits," "G-Saviour," "P.T. Barnum," "Seven Days," "Mysterious Ways," "Stargate SG-1," "Cold Squad," "Dark Angel," "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction," "Breaking News," "Night Visions," "Dead Like Me," "Just Cause," "The Dead Zone," "Smallville," "Tru Calling," "Kingdom Hospital," "Proof of the Man," 'Reunion," "Supernatural," "The L Word," "Saved," "Three Moons Over Milford," "Sanctuary," "Bionic Woman," "Aliens in America," "Masters of Science Fiction," "The Capture of the Green River Killer," and "The Middleman". During her career, she was held dual citizenship between the United States and Canada, had been a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a politically active liberal Democrat, was a regular parishioner of the Methodist church, had been the artistic director of the Black Theatre Workshop, was the recipient of the 1981 Montreal Gazette Theatre Critics Award for Outstanding Performance and the 1991 Jessie Richardson Award for Best Supporting Actress, had been a self-published author, was a notable voice over artist for several major studios, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was the celebrity spokeswoman for Target and Talonbooks, presided on her local charters of the Boys and Girls Clubs and Habitat for Humanity, and she was married to theatre director John Cooper from 1988 until her death (their union produced one son). After appearing in what would be her final performance in "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" (2009) she died shortly afterwards from complications of throat cancer.