Kristen Thomson

Kristen Thomson

Ontario-based actor and playwright, born in 1966. She studied at University College in Toronto and at the National Theatre School of Canada. She is a gifted, natural actor, and highly-regarded playwright.

Although she has performed extensively across the country in a wide variety of roles, critical and audience reaction to her performance in George F. Walker's Problem Child(Factory Theatre 1998, dir. Walker) as an ex-prostitute/junkie trying to get her child back from the system was particularly enthusiastic.

Among the companies where Kristen Thomson has performed are Nightwood (Quartet); Grand Theatre, London (Great Expectations); Theatre Passe Muraille (The Little Years); Piggery Theatre (Lend me a Tenor); Canadian Stage (Oleanna and Every Brilliant Thing); Centaur Theatre (La Bête); Manitoba Theatre Centre; National Arts Centre (Dancing at Lughnasa); and Porte Parole (The Watershed).

Kristen Thomson has also appeared in the David Hare play Skylight at Citadel Theatre (February, 1999), as Stella in the Soulpepper Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire (directed by Diana Leblanc, July, 1999), in The Memory of Water at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre (February, 2000), in Hysteria at Canadian Stage (October, 2000), and for Soulpepper, again, as Yelena in Uncle Vanya (August, 2001).

Thomson with Stuart Hughes in the Soulpepper Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Diana Leblanc (1999). Photo David Hawe.

She is the recipient of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, two ACTRA Awards, two Canadian comedy Awards, and a Gemini.

She has also performed extensively on television and in film. She won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie Away From Her.

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