Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale | |
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Born |
Cynthia Ciurluini 11 August 1960 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater | Michael Power/St. Joseph High School |
Spouse(s) | Peter Mansbridge (m. 1998) |
Children |
William 1999 (age 16–17) |
Relatives | Jennifer Dale |
Cynthia Dale (born 11 August 1960) is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. She is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987–94 television drama Street Legal.[1]
Biography
Dale was born Cynthia Ciurluini in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She attended Michael Power/St. Joseph High School in Toronto, Ontario.
She is the sister of Canadian actress Jennifer Dale.
Since 1998 she has been married to CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. They have one child, Will.
Dale first entered the acting world in 1965, when she accompanied her sister to an audition.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in a number of movies and stage productions. She appeared as Patty in the 1981 Canadian slasher film, My Bloody Valentine. She appeared in New York City in an off-Broadway play in 1987, and previously in 1983 first appeared at the Stratford Festival, where she has headlined several shows (mostly musicals) in the 2000s.
Cynthia and Jennifer Dale once appeared together in a CBC variety special.
She starred in the 1985 movie Heavenly Bodies, where she plays the owner of an aerobics dance studio.
She was a member of the judging panel of the Canadian TV show Triple Sensation in 2007.
Filmography
Movies
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1981 | My Bloody Valentine | Patty | |
1983 | Snow | Short | |
1984 | Heavenly Bodies | Samantha Blair | |
1986 | The Boy in Blue | Margaret | |
1987 | Moonstruck | Sheila | |
2008 | A Broken Life | Carla | |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980-81 | The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial | 2 Episodes: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Swan Lake Murders | |
1986 | The Campbells | Sarah Greener | 2 Episodes: Tales of the Canadas, Heaven Sent |
1987 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Elizabeth | 1 Episode: The Liberators |
Seeing Things | Marlena | 1 Episode, Eye of the Beholder | |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Kelly | 1 Episode: World's Oldest Motive | |
Adderly | Lisping Woman | 1 Episode, Midnight in Morocco | |
Sadie and Son | Paula Melvin | TV Movie | |
1987-88 | Night Heat | Allana Pride / Gloria | 2 Episodes: Set for Life, All the King's Horses |
1988-94 | Street Legal | Olivia Novak | 107 Episodes |
1989 | Baby Cakes | Olivia | TV Movie |
1990 | War of the Worlds | Tila | 1 Episode: The Obelisk |
1992 | In the Eyes of a Stranger | Nancy | TV Movie |
1995 | At the Midnight Hour | Jullian | TV Movie |
Taking the Falls | Terry Lane | 13 Episodes | |
Spenser: A Savage Place | Candy Sloane | TV Movie | |
1996 | The Newsroom | herself | 1 Episode: Petty Tyranny |
1998 | Witness to Yesterday | Marie Antoinette | 1 Episode: Marie Antoinette |
Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Lisa Tuite | TV Movie | |
1999 | P.T. Barnum | Charity | TV Movie |
2001 | The Pretender 2001 | Agent Zane | TV Movie |
The Industry | Susan Doyle | 1 Episode: Husband & Wife | |
2002 | Trudeau | Opening Hostess | TV Movie |
2009 | Christmas Dreams | Rose Lunette | TV Movie |
2010-11 | Baxter | Belinda Nightingale | 3 Episodes: Audition Fever, Cindy and the Prince of Rock, Finale |
2011 | The Listener | Diane Feeny | 1 Episode: Eye of the Storm |
2014 | Working the Engels | Lytton Schultz | 1 Episode: Family Therapy |