Alberta Watson Movies and Career Information

Faith Susan Alberta Watson (born March 6, 1955), known professionally as Alberta Watson, is a Canadian movie and television series actress. Alberta Watson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Toronto with her mother Grace, a factory worker, and her brother. She began performing with a local Toronto theater group, T.H.O.G. (Theater House of God, of the Bathurst Street United Church at age 15. She took a workshop for the Hair musical. While doing this workshop she did Hamlet, which was directed by René Bonnière who later directed her in La Femme Nikita. Watson got her first role at age 19 in a CBC movie called Honor Thy Father. Early in her career she portrayed the role of Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women (1978), for which she received a Genie nomination. A year later she received the Best Actress award at the Yorkton Film Festival for "Exposure". She then moved Los Angeles, California and later to New York City. Watson lived in New Jersey for eight years with her then-husband until her divorce. She then returned to Toronto and focused on finding interesting roles in independent films. She worked with director Colleen Murphy on the film Shoemaker