Life and career

Crewson was born in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, the daughter of June Doreen (née

Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....

 Thomas) and Robert Binnie Crewson. She attended Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

 in Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

, where she won the prestigious Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater. She then studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, formerly the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, was a drama school, and originally a singing school, in London. It was one of the leading drama schools in Britain, and offered comprehensive training for those intending to pursue a...

 in London

London

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. She was married to actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy (actor)

Michael George Murphy is an American film and television actor.-Career:Murphy played Woody Allen's duplicitous friend Yale in the film Manhattan...

 in 1988 and they have two children. They divorced in January 2009 and she remarried.

Crewson joined the cast of ReGenesis

ReGenesis

ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...

in 2007 playing Dr. Rachel Woods. She also guest starred in the first eight episodes of the third season of 24, playing Dr. Anne Packard, personal physician and love interest to the President.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1982	Mazes and Monsters Mazes and Monsters Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 made-for-TV movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about a group of college students and their interest in a fictitious role-playing game of the same name. The movie starred a 26-year-old Tom Hanks in his first major leading film role.- Background :The film was...	Kate Finch
1983	Skullduggery Skullduggery (1983 film) Skullduggery is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by Ota Richter.-Plot:It is about a man named Adam, the descendant of a long line of cursed men. He, too, falls under the curse and begins a killing spree....	Barbara Sluszarczyk/Dorigen
1984	Heartsounds Heartsounds Heartsounds is an autobiographical book written by Martha Weinman Lear and first published in 1980 by Simon and Schuster....	Judy
1984	The Guardian (HBO Movie)	Marlee Kramer
1985	Mark of Cain	Dale
1987		Laurie
1990	Getting Married in Buffalo Jump Getting Married in Buffalo Jump Getting Married in Buffalo Jump is a 1990 Canadian TV movie filmed in Alberta, Canada. In specific Cowley, Lundbeck, and Pincher Creek. It was directed by Eric Till and stars Wendy Crewson and Paul Gross.-Plot:...	Sophie Ware
1991		Dr. Leslie Abbott
1992	Folks! Folks! (film) Folks! is a 1992 dark comedy film, directed by Ted Kotcheff. The movie starred Tom Selleck. The movie's tagline is: "Jon Aldrich is about to come face to face with the most terrifying force known to man.....	Audrey Aldrich
1993		Susan Evans
1994		Laura Miller
1994	Corrina, Corrina Corrina, Corrina (film) Corrina, Corrina is a 1994 feature film set in 1959 about a widower who hires a housekeeper/nanny to care for his daughter . It was written and directed by Jessie Nelson...	Jenny Davis
1995	Ebbie Ebbie Ebbie or Miracle at Christmas: Ebbie's Story is a 1995 TV movie directed by George Kaczender, written by Ed Redlich, and starring Susan Lucci in the title role.-Plot:The story follows a scrooge-like woman, Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge...	Roberta Cratchet
1996	To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday is an American play by Michael Brady, published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., in 1984. It was developed through the literary department of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and M Square Entertainment and moved to Circle-In-The-Square.To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday is...	Kevin Dollof
1997	Air Force One Air Force One (film) Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle...	First Lady Grace Marshall
1998	At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story is a 1998 Canadian documentary/drama film about the life of Canadian right to die advocate Sue Rodriguez....	Sue Rodriguez Sue Rodriguez Sue Rodriguez was an advocate of assisted suicide.She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the given name Sue Shipley, and grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Her first marriage was short-lived....
1998	Escape Velocity (film) Escape Velocity (film) Escape Velocity is a 1998 Canadian thriller film, directed by Lloyd A. Simandl.-Cast:*Wendy Crewson ... Billie*Peter Outerbridge ... Lee Nash*Patrick Bergin ... Cal*Patrik Stanek ... Jansen*Michelle Beaudoin ... Ronnie...	Billie
1999	Better Than Chocolate Better Than Chocolate Better Than Chocolate is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy movie shot in Vancouver directed by Anne Wheeler.-Plot:Maggie has recently moved out on her own, and has started a relationship with another woman, Kim...	Lila
1999	Bicentennial Man	'Ma´am' Martin
1999	Summer's End	Virginia Baldwin
2000	Mercy	Bernadine Mello
2000	What Lies Beneath What Lies Beneath What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror-thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars veteran actors Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as a well-to-do couple who experience a strange haunting that uncovers secrets about their past....	Elena
2000		Natalie Gibson
2001	Suddenly Naked Suddenly Naked Suddenly Naked is a 2001 drama film directed by Anne Wheeler and written by Elyse Friedman.-Plot:Jackie York is a famous novelist with a secret: she is suffering from writer's block and is unable to write her much-anticipated novel. After being used and then dumped by a wannabe movie director,...	Jackie York
2001	Deadly Appearances	Joanne Kilbourn
2002	Perfect Pie Perfect Pie Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing....	Adult Patsy
2002		McNally "Mac" Hays
2002		Laura Miller
2002	Verdict in Blood	Joanne Kilbourn
2003		Ede Kilworth
2003	Twelve Mile Road Twelve Mile Road Twelve Mile Road is a 2003 drama film based on the book Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell. It was directed and written for teleplay by Richard Friedenberg...	Dr. Angela Landis
2004		Louise Miller
2004	Pigeon	Woman in Train
2005	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 :...	Lily
2005	Hunt for Justice	Louise Arbour Louise Arbour Louise Arbour, is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda...
2006	Eight Below Eight Below Eight Below is a 2006 American adventure film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio. It stars Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, Bruce Greenwood and Moon Bloodgood...	Eve McClaren
2006	Who Loves the Sun Who Loves the Sun Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian comedy/drama/romance film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette.- Plot :Will Morrison and Daniel Bloom were the best of friends. They grew up together, went to the same schools, liked the same records, loved the same girls. Daniel was Will’s best man at his...	Mary Bloom
2006		Evelyn Danvers
2006	Away from Her Away From Her Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...	Madeleine
2006		Laura Miller
2007		Mary Stanton
2009	Formosa Betrayed Formosa Betrayed Formosa Betrayed is a 2009 American political thriller film directed by Adam Kane, written by Charlie Stratton, Yann Samuell, Brian Askew, Nathaniel Goodman, with story by Will Tiao and Katie Swain, and starring James Van Der Beek...	Susan Kane
2011	Winnie Winnie (film) Winnie is an upcoming drama film adaptation of Anne Marie du Preez Bezrob's biography Winnie Mandela: A Life. The film is directed by Darrell Roodt, and will star Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Wendy Crewson, and Elias Koteas.-Plot:...	Mary Botha

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