Kate Hennig

Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out.^[3]

In 2002, Hennig was awarded a master's degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.^[4]

She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for The Danish Play,^[5] and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for Billy Elliot.^[6] Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,^[7] and has appeared in the films Mrs. Winterbourne and The Claim, and the television series Bomb Girls, Saving Hope and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.

As a playwright, she has written the plays The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, and Mother's Daughter.^[8] She was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards^[9] and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Virgin Trial.^[10]

In 2019, Hennig directed Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival.^[11]

Hennig married and later divorced Ian Prinsloo. She moved back Toronto from Calgary in 2001, after her run as Sally Bowles in Cabaret ended.^[3]

• The Eleventh David^[31]
• More^[31]
• Waterworks,^[31] later titled Drowning Out of Water
• The Queenmaker Trilogy:
  • The Last Wife^[31]
  • The Virgin Trial^[32]
  • Mother’s Daughter^[33]
• Cyrano de Bergerac (translation and adaptation)^[34]
• Wilde Tales^[35]

• Kate Hennig at IMDb