PHOTO ESSAY

Most Valuable Players

Hockey card summaries of this year’s GG Performing Arts Awards winners

By Alec Scott

November 4, 2005

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JACKIE BURROUGHS
Actress
Born: Lancashire, England, 1939
Claims to fame: In more than 75 feature films and a legion of television shows and plays, Jackie’s made a career of impersonating mad, bad or otherwise dangerous-to-know women. These include artistically talented adulteresses (Elizabeth Smart and Maria Callas), ornery schoolmarms (in Road to Avonlea and Lost and Delirious), an aged madam (Olympia Dukakis’s mother in Tales of the City), a sex tourist (in the 1988 film A Winter Tan, which she also wrote, produced and directed), a jonesing heroin addict (in Wojeck) and, improbably, Queen Victoria. One of many Canadian acting pros to get a start treading the boards at the University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre, Jackie has appeared at both the Shaw and Stratford festivals and in some of the top Canadian film projects of the last 30 years, including The Wars, The Grey Fox and, more recently, Deepa Mehta’s The Republic of Love. An ex-hippie, she dances and reads Proust every day, and splits her time between Toronto and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Trivia: She was once married to the late Zal Yanovsky of the ’60s group Lovin’ Spoonful.
Quotable quote: “I’ve always played old, even when I was young. They know better than to cast me in the goodie-goodie grandmother roles, though.”