Nicola Cavendish

Canadian actress

Nicola Cavendish
Born	(1952-11-11) 11 November 1952 (age 71) Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1970s–present

Nicola Cavendish (born 11 November 1952) is an English-born Canadian theatre and film actress.

Early life

Cavendish was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England and brought up in British Columbia, Canada.^[1] She began her acting career in the mid-1970s.^[2]

Career

Her theatre roles have included cross-Canada tours starring in Shirley Valentine and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Her other film roles include Suddenly Naked, Air Bud and My American Cousin. Television roles include Virgin River (TV series), the 1990 television mini-series version of Stephen King's It, Men in Trees, The L Word, Highlander: The Series, The X-Files, Street Legal and Red Serge. She has won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1991 film The Grocer's Wife and a Gemini Award nomination for the 1998 film The Sleep Room.

Filmography

Film


Year	Title	Role
1985	My American Cousin	Gladys Rutherford
1989	American Boyfriends	Mrs. Day
1990	The Comic Book Christmas Caper	Aunt Dottie
1991	The Grocer's Wife	Mrs. Friendly
1993	View from the Typewriter	Narrator
1997	Air Bud	Principal Pepper
1998	The Sleep Room	Ruth Farmer
2001	Suddenly Naked	Suzanne Steinman
2013	The Bouquet	Bonnie Benton

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Huckleberry Finn and His Friends	Charlotte Grangerford	2 episodes
1988	The Beachcombers	Const. Cleo Gorcey	Episode: "Miserable Sinner"
1990	It	Desk Clerk	Episode: "Part 2"
1993	The Diviners	Ella	Television film
1993	Street Legal	Pauline Harper	Episode: "Truth, Lies and Consequences"
1994	The X-Files	Nurse Owens	Episode: "One Breath"
1995	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story	Susan	Television film
1995	Highlander: The Series	Queen Anne	Television film
1998	The Wonderful World of Disney	Penelope	Episode: "Noah"
1999	Sabrina: The Animated Series	Voice	7 episodes
2001	Mentors	Emily Carr	Episode: "Work in Progress"
2004	The L Word	Prison Matron	Episode: "Locked Up"
2006	Men in Trees	Pam Mitexi	Episode: "Sink or Swim"
2008	The Guard	Vera	Episode: "When I'm Sixty Four"
2014	The Memory Book	Mabel Potter	Television film
2014	The Christmas Secret	Betty	Television film
2015	The Returned	Mia Darrow	2 episodes
2015	The Christmas Note	Betty	Television film
2015	The Romeo Section	Helen	5 episodes
2019–present	Virgin River	Connie	25 episodes

References

^ Robinson, Red (7 January 2008). "BC Entertainment Hall of Fame", The Vancouver Sun, p. B2.
^ Wyman, Max (19 February 1990). "It's eye to eye with Cavendish", The Province, p. 35.

External links

Nicola Cavendish at IMDb
British Columbia School District 67 Wall of Fame biography
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Nicola Cavendish

Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Film

Best Supporting Actor
1970–2021

Gratien Gélinas (1970)
Danny Freedman (1971)
Donald Pilon (1972)
Willie Lamothe (1973)
No Award (1974)
Henry Beckman (1975)
Frank Moore (1976)
Jean Lapointe (1977)
Henry Beckman (1978)
Gordon Pinsent (1980)
Germain Houde (1981)
Saul Rubinek (1982)
R. H. Thomson (1983)
Michael Zelniker (1984)
Alan Scarfe (1985)
Alan Arkin (1986)
Gabriel Arcand (1987)
Germain Houde (1988)
Rémy Girard (1989)
Rémy Girard (1990)
August Schellenberg (1991)
Michael Hogan (1992)
Kevin Tighe (1993)
Don McKellar (1994)
Kenneth Welsh (1995)
Peter Donaldson (1996)
Peter MacNeill (1997)
Callum Keith Rennie (1998)
Mark McKinney (1999)
Martin Cummins (2000)
Vincent Gale (2001)
Elias Koteas (2002)
Stéphane Rousseau (2003)
Jean Lapointe (2004)
Denis Bernard (2005)
Stephen McHattie (2006)
Armin Mueller-Stahl (2007)
Callum Keith Rennie (2008)
Maxim Gaudette (2009)
Dustin Hoffman (2010)
Viggo Mortensen (2011)
Serge Kanyinda (2012)
Gordon Pinsent (2013)
John Cusack (2014)
Nick Serino (2015)
Vincent Cassel (2016)
Ethan Hawke (2017)
Richard Clarkin (2018)
Rémy Girard (2019)
Colm Feore (2020)
Joshua Odjick (2021)

Best Supporting Actress
1970–2021

Fernande Giroux (1970)
Olivette Thibault (1971)
Doris Petrie (1972)
Camille Bernard (1973)
No Award (1974)
Lila Kedrova (1975)
Tedde Moore (1976)
Carole Lazare (1977)
Marilyn Lightstone (1978)
Geneviève Bujold (1980)
Kate Reid (1981)
Denise Filiatrault (1982)
Jackie Burroughs (1983)
Jackie Burroughs (1984)
Linda Sorenson (1985)
Linda Sorenson (1986)
Louise Portal (1987)
Paule Baillargeon (1988)
Colleen Dewhurst (1989)
Robyn Stevan (1990)
Danielle Proulx (1991)
Monique Mercure (1992)
Nicola Cavendish (1993)
Martha Henry (1994)
Kate Nelligan (1995)
Martha Burns (1996)
Seana McKenna (1997)
Monique Mercure (1998)
Catherine O'Hara (1999)
Helen Shaver (2000)
Molly Parker (2001)
Pascale Montpetit (2002)
Marie-Josée Croze (2003)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (2004)
Danielle Proulx (2005)
Carrie-Anne Moss (2006)
Kristen Thomson (2007)
Kristin Booth (2008)
Martha Burns (2009)
Minnie Driver (2010)
Sophie Nélisse (2011)
Seema Biswas (2012)
Sarah Gadon (2013)
Suzanne Clément (2014)
Joan Allen (2015)
Molly Parker (2016)
Bahar Noohian (2017)
Sarah Gadon (2018)
Nour Belkhiria (2019)
Mary Walsh (2020)
Cherish Violet Blood (2021)

Best Supporting Performance in a Film
2022-present

Aaron Pierre (2022)

Canadian Film Awards 1968-1978, Genie Awards 1980-2011, Canadian Screen Awards 2012-present.
Separate awards were presented by gender prior to 2022; a single unified category for best performance regardless of gender has been presented since.