Janet-Laine Green) is a Canadian actress, director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and teacher, active for over 25 years. Best known for her roles in She's the Mayor

She's the Mayor

She's the Mayor is a Canadian television sitcom, scheduled to start on Vision TV from October 4, 2011. The show will star Janet-Laine Green as Iris Peters, a woman in her 60s who is newly elected as the mayor of the fictional city of Fairfax....

, Seeing Things and This is Wonderland

This Is Wonderland

This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...

, this Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

-based film and television personality has also been a voice actor for animated series such as Jacob Two-Two

Jacob Two-Two (TV series)

Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated TV series based on a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler that first aired on Canadian children's channel YTV and aired on the French Canadian VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob and in Spanish on Telemundo as Jacobo Dos Dos. It was produced by Nelvana; before being...

, Franklin

Franklin (TV series)

Franklin is a Canadian animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle...

, Little Bear

Little Bear (TV series)

Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...

(as Mother Bear) and The Care Bears

Care Bears

The Care Bears are characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner turned the Care Bears into plush teddy bears...

(for which she played Wish Bear).

She also provided the voice of the arch villain Xayide in the animated version

The Neverending Story (TV series)

The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux is an animated television series, produced by CineVox , Ellipse , and Nelvana , aired for one season on HBO, ran for 26 episodes, and loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story .In the animated series, the...

 of The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983...

and also Void

Void (comics)

Void is a fictional character in the Wildstorm Universe.-Fictional character biography:Adrianna was born in Arkhangelsk, Russia. Adrianna and her sister Svetlana were raised by their father after the death of their mother. Her father loved Adrianna and her ambition to become a cosmonaut and...

 in WildC.A.T.S..

She has also worked as an associate producer on the film The Circle Game

The Circle Game

The Circle Game is the 1968 album from folk rock musician Tom Rush. He covers three songs from fellow singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, as well as songs by Jackson Browne and James Taylor...

in which she also played as Anna.

Green has nine awards to her credit, five of them Gemini and another two Genie.

She is also active on the Canadian stage. In fact, Theatre Saskatchewan has given the province's best stage actors, since 1992, a Lifetime Achievement Award named after her; Green even sponsors it.

Green is the mother of Goosebumps and Redwall

Redwall (TV series)

Redwall is a television series made by Canada-based Nelvana and France-based Alphanim and is based on the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques. The series currently spans three seasons, the first based on the first book Redwall, the second on Mattimeo and the third on Martin the Warrior...

actor Tyrone Savage

Tyrone Savage

Tyrone Savage is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. Television credits include Wind at My Back, Instant Star, Dresden Files and Goosebumps. Film credits include American Pie Presents: Beta House. Recent theatre credits include The Zoo Story by Edward Albee and Romeo and...

. Her husband, Booth Savage

Booth Savage

Booth Savage is a Canadian film, stage, and television actor. He graduated with an MFA from York University in 1992. He is in the Canadore College Theatre program faculty. He is best known to Canadian TV viewers for his role as Team Canada head coach Harry Sinden in the 2006 CBC miniseries...

, wrote the play version of Pillow Talk, which Green is now starring in and producing.

She has a production company of her own, Briefcase Productions.

Film

• All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story - Mrs. Schmitz
• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
  Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
  Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 television mini-series that was highly anticipated among fans of Anne of Green Gables. It borrowed characters from the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery but not actual plot lines. Instead it served as a sequel to two...
  
  - Maud Montrose
• The Believers
  The Believers
  The Believers is a horror/neo-noir film directed by John Schlesinger, released in 1987 and starring Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia and Helen Shaver...
  
  - Lisa Jamison
• Bullies
  Bullies
  Bullies is a 1986 Canadian action-drama film about a feud between two families in a small town in a similar vein to the story of Romeo and Juliet...
  
  - Jenny Morris
• Chautauqua Girl - Sally
• The Circle Game
  The Circle Game
  The Circle Game is the 1968 album from folk rock musician Tom Rush. He covers three songs from fellow singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, as well as songs by Jackson Browne and James Taylor...
  
  - Anna
• Cowboys Don't Cry -
• Dead Lawyers - Kathryn Keillor
• The Diamond Fleece
  The Diamond Fleece
  The Diamond Fleece is a 1992 Canadian made-for-television film directed by Al Waxman and starring Ben Cross, Kate Nelligan and Brian Dennehy...
  
  - Ms. Green
• Escape: Human Cargo
  Escape: Human Cargo
  Escape: Human Cargo is a 1998 American action television film, directed by Simon Wincer. In 1999, the film was nominated at the Motion Picture Sound Editors for the Golden Reel Award in the Best Sound Editing - Television movies category. It lost to A Soldier's Sweetheart.-Cast:*Treat Williams ......
  
  - Pat
• End of Summer - Lucie
• Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble - Elizabeth Sedgwick
• Family Pictures - Toni Baker
• Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story - Nancy's Mother
• The Girl Next Door - Joyce Williams
• Harry's Case -
• I Me Wed
  I Me Wed
  I Me Wed is a 2007 made-for-TV romantic comedy directed by Craig Pryce.When Isabel Darden, a successful, attractive 30-year-old woman, grows tired of people asking her "when are you going to get married?," she decides to honor the person she loves the most by tying the knot with herself. But then...
  
  - Lillian
• The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe - Judy
• The Limit
  The Limit
  The Limit was a 1980s musical group composed of Dutch producers Bernard Oattes and Rob Van Schalk. They released a full-length album in 1984, which yielded the hit "Say Yeah". The song peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Chart and at #7 on the U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play chart.-Albums:-Songs:...
  
  - Agent Henry
• Love - Julia (segment "Julia")
• Medicine River
  Medicine River
  Medicine River is a novel written by author Thomas King. It was first published by Viking Canada in 1989. The book was later adapted into a television movie starring Graham Greene and Tom Jackson.-Plot summary:...
  
  - Ellen Lesly
• Moonlight Becomes You -
• Murder Sees the Light -
• My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story - Ariane
• My Family's Secret - June Shaeffer
• Niagara Motel
  Niagara Motel
  Niagara Motel is a 2006 Canadian drama film directed by Gary Yates. The film earned numerous nominations, including a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for Caroline Dhavernas.- Plot :...
  
  - Helen
• One Police Plaza
  One Police Plaza
  1 Police Plaza is the headquarters of the New York City Police Department . 1 Police Plaza is located on Park Row in downtown Manhattan near City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Its block borders Park Row, Pearl Street, and Police Plaza...
  
  - Janet Fox
• Primo Baby - Ann Williams
• Quiet Killer - Aunt Louise
• The Shower - Louise
• The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel
  The Stone Angel, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, is perhaps the best-known of Margaret Laurence's series of novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba. In parallel narratives set in the past and the present-day , The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley...
  
  - Lottie
• Striking Poses - April Indigo
• Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
  Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story
  Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story is a Canadian film about teen violence based on a true incident.Playing the movie's central character is Tyler Hynes as "Jonathan Wamback"...
  
  - Nora
• Thin Air -
• Undertaker -
• Vita da cane -
• When the Dark Man Calls - Sue Winston

Television

• Adderly
  Adderly
  Adderly is a Canadian television drama series, first aired in 1986.-Cast:* Winston Rekert as V.H. Adderly* Jonathan Welsh as Melville Greenspan* Dixie Seatle as Mona Ellerby* Ken Pogue as Major Jonathan B. Clack-Plot:...
  
  - Lisa
• The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
  The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
  The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1996 to 1999. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series...
  
  - Stratmann's Attorney
• The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...
  
  - Dana Battle
• Beyond Reality
  Beyond Reality (TV series)
  Beyond Reality is a Canadian/American science fiction television series which originally aired between October 4, 1991 and March 20, 1993. The series is about two university parapsychologists investigate reports of paranormal phenomena that occur in ordinary people's lives....
  
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• Blue Murder - Lidi Delillo/Alice Watson
• Counterstrike - Claire Sinclair
• Doc
  Doc (TV series)
  Doc is a medical drama/family drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It ran from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on PAX...
  
  - Elaine
• Earth: Final Conflict
  Earth: Final Conflict
  Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...
  
  - Dr. Melissa Park
• E.N.G.
  E.N.G.
  E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...
  
  - Diane Terlain
• Goosebumps
  Goosebumps (TV series)
  Goosebumps is a Canadian children's horror anthology television series based on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps books.-Networks:...
  
  - Martha Morgan
• The Hidden Room - Lucy
• Hot Shots
  Hot Shots (TV series)
  Hot Shots was a short-lived Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBS in the United States in 1986, and CTV in Canada in 1987.The series, produced by CTV for the CBS Late Night block of crime drama series, starred Dorothy Parke and Booth Savage as Amanda Reed and Jake West, crime...
  
  - Liz
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972-1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27,...
  
  - Annie Blaisdell
• Liberty's Street - Annie's Mom
• Mutant X
  Mutant X (TV series)
  Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Marvel Studios, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects...
  
  - Senator Morrison
• M.V.P. - Carla
• Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  - Jennifer Breland
• Playmakers
  Playmakers
  Playmakers is an American television series that aired on ESPN from August 26, 2003 to November 11, 2003. It depicted the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team in an unidentified city. The show starred Omar Gooding, Marcello Thedford, Christopher Wiehl, Jason Matthew Smith,...
  
  - Miss Duberstein
• Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
  Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
  Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000...
  
  - Dr. Joanne Bester
• The Ray Bradbury Theater
  The Ray Bradbury Theater
  The Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for two seasons on HBO, three episodes per season from 1985 to 1986, and four additional seasons on USA Network from 1988 to 1992. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel...
  
  - Mrs. Leary
• Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea
  Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
  
  - Eliza Pike
• Secret Service
  Secret Service (TV Series)
  Secret Service was an American action drama television series, created by Gilbert M. Shilton and George Mendeluk, which premiered on NBC on August 16, 1992 and ended on November 17, 1993. The show was a re-enactment of real Secret Service cases. It aired 21 episodes...
  
  - Wolsten
• Seeing Things - Heather Redfern
• She's the Mayor
  She's the Mayor
  She's the Mayor is a Canadian television sitcom, scheduled to start on Vision TV from October 4, 2011. The show will star Janet-Laine Green as Iris Peters, a woman in her 60s who is newly elected as the mayor of the fictional city of Fairfax....
  
  - Iris Peters
• Sweating Bullets - Estelle Clay
• This is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...
  
  - Judge Serkis
• Traders
  Traders (TV series)
  Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...
  
  - Catherine Cunningham
• T. and T.
  T. and T.
  T. and T. is a Canadian-produced television series, in production from 1987 to 1990. The series premiered in first-run syndication in January 1988, later moving to new episodes on the Family Channel in 1990. It was a starring vehicle for Mr...
  
  - Louise

Animation

• Babar
  Babar (TV series)
  Babar is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international...
  
  - Queen Celeste
• Babar: King of the Elephants
  Babar: King of the Elephants
  Babar: King of the Elephants is a 1998 animated film made by Nelvana Limited and released in theaters in Canada by Alliance Communications and in the U.S. straight to video by New Line Home Video. Based on Jean de Brunhoff's book series, it is the second Babar movie, following 1989's Babar: The...
  
  - Queen Celeste
• The Care Bears
  The Care Bears (TV series)
  The Care Bears is an animated television series based on the Care Bears franchise, which aired between 1985 and 1988 in syndication; on the ABC network in the United States; and on Global in Canada. The 1985 episodes were produced by DIC Entertainment; the ABC/Global episodes were made by...
  
  - Wish Bear
• The Care Bears Movie
  The Care Bears Movie
  The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated film, the second feature production from the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films based directly on a toy line, it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions, the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, orphanage owners...
  
  - Wish Bear
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation - Wish Bear
• Delilah and Julius
  Delilah and Julius
  Delilah and Julius is a Canadian animated series which is targeted at children and young teens and is animated using Macromedia Flash technology...
  
  - Additional Voices
• Franklin
  Franklin (TV series)
  Franklin is a Canadian animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle...
  
  - Narrator
• Jacob Two-Two
  Jacob Two-Two (TV series)
  Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated TV series based on a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler that first aired on Canadian children's channel YTV and aired on the French Canadian VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob and in Spanish on Telemundo as Jacobo Dos Dos. It was produced by Nelvana; before being...
  
  - Florence
• Little Bear
  Little Bear (TV series)
  Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...
  
  - Mother Bear
• The Little Bear Movie
  The Little Bear Movie
  The Little Bear Movie is a film based on the television series Little Bear, which in turn is based on the book series of the same name which was written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and produced by Nelvana Limited for Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies...
  
  - Mother Bear
• Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend - Mother/Hera/Seagull
• The Neverending Story
  The Neverending Story (TV series)
  The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux is an animated television series, produced by CineVox , Ellipse , and Nelvana , aired for one season on HBO, ran for 26 episodes, and loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story .In the animated series, the...
  
  - Xayide
• Totally Spies! - Additional Voices
• Ultraforce
  Ultraforce (comics)
  The Ultraforce is a fictional superhero group that appears in comic books published by Malibu, and later Marvel, as well as an animated series produced by DIC. Their purpose was to protect the public and keep other Ultras from getting out of line...
  
  - Lament
• WildC.A.T.S. - Void
  Void (comics)
  Void is a fictional character in the Wildstorm Universe.-Fictional character biography:Adrianna was born in Arkhangelsk, Russia. Adrianna and her sister Svetlana were raised by their father after the death of their mother. Her father loved Adrianna and her ambition to become a cosmonaut and...
  
  

Videogames

• Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gangan Battle - Blackarachnia/Predacon Computer

External links

• Janet-Laine Green at Northern Stars